vintage – Page 5 – Ruth E. Hendricks

2 Dr Chevrolet Coupe, c.1947? (2 views)

Went online to try to match the car model, noticing the details like how the headlights are placed. I took this at the red light at Howley St and Friendship Ave. Drove around the block and got the side view, too. A real beauty. Historic, vintage, restored cars like this one evoke childhood memories of the gray Dodge Wayfarer we had in Montclair NJ. This one the color of whipped butter. Polished. Parked on the street, just waiting as me I drove home from Greenway School where we had training today. What a car! Scroll down for second view.

The owner must love driving this beautiful car. — What a surprise to find this historic vehicle on the way home from school. The car looks like it is smiling.

August 19, 2010August 18, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, photo of the day, vintage, What I Found on the Way Home from SchoolTags: automobile, Bloomfield, car, chevrolet, chevy, childhood, city scene, coupe, Friendship Ave, historic car, Howley St, neighborhood, photo of the day, photoblog, Pittsburgh, urban scene, vintage car 7 Comments

Old Fashioned Rose Bouquet in Candlelight

Book club tonight, I hosted. And Then We Came to An End by Joshua Ferris. Recommend if you work in an office or a cubicle, author nails office culture and characters in an economic downturn, lots of seemingly authentic people inhabit the book. Well written. Joan brought a mixed berry pie from Patty’s Farm Market and some vanilla gelato. Sliced Pink Lady apples and Cabot sharp cheddar. Guacamole and white corn chips. Tess picked lovely roses from her garden and brought the bouquet in a vase. The smell permeated the living room. After everyone left, I lit a couple of candles to photograph them. There are more than 450 varieties of roses that start with the letter B. If you want to grow them click here

a bouquet of roses from Tess's garden, candlelight image — My Grandmother Hendricks crocheted the doily. I love that word.

May 21, 2010May 21, 2010 by Ruth Categories: photo of the day, vintageTags: And Then We Came to an End, available light, candles, garden bouquet, Joshua Ferris, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, roses, vintage 7 Comments

Forbes Field/Baseball History

A little experiment. First slideshow inserted into a post. Eight slides of Forbes Field wall and homeplate. The huge print with Bill Mazeroski’s signature in the middle of the George Silk photo of fans cheering from atop the Cathedral of Learning. Last day of the Oakland tour. What I was photographing before I found the multiple Cathedral Learning Reflections in the Katz School of Business glass.

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May 18, 2010May 18, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Pittsburgh Photos, Places, vintageTags: Barney Dreyfuss, Baseball, Bill Mazeroski, Cathedral of Learning, childhood, Forbes Field, George Silk Photograph, history, memories, Pittsburgh Pirates, University of Pittsburgh, vintage 6 Comments

Classic Corner Drugstore

Received a comment from Gail yesterday that the triangular building downtown reminded her of Shalit’s Drugstore in Morristown where we went to HS. So when I saw this corner drugstore tonight on the way home from the All City HS Art Showcase, I stopped to photograph it. Looks like I’m in the middle of traffic. Camera propped against a light pole, cable remote. Seems the CVS, Eckerds, Walgreen’s eat up all the independents but this one’s still open in Bloomfield on the corner of Penn Ave and Main St.

Bloomfield Pittsburgh Old Fashioned Drugstore — A busy corner, a block from the new Children's Hospital.

May 14, 2010May 13, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Night Light in the City, photo of the day, Pittsburgh Photos, Places, vintageTags: available light, Bloomfield, city scene, Classic, drugstore, memories, neighborhood, night, photo gallery, photo of the day, sidewalk, urban scene, vintage 7 Comments

Vintage Milkbox on Dorothy’s Front Stoop

Used as a mailbox now, these silver milk boxes were on everyone’s porch steps. Growing up our dairy was Alderney Farms in New Jersey. Thick glass, with paperboard circle caps. You could get a dozen eggs, some cottage cheese. Leave the empties for the milkman to exchange for fresh cold bottles of milk. We still had delivery in the mid sixties. The delivery truck door had a sound when it’d slide. You can buy an old milkbox on ebay.

vintage milkbox from Harmony Dairy Co., used as a mailbox now. — Lavender from Dorothy's garden rests on her vintage milkbox. I think I need to get her a new flag!

March 23, 2010March 22, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Things, vintageTags: American flag, childhood, city scene, front porch, Harmony Dairy Co., lavender, memories, milk bottle, milk carrier, milkbox, milkman, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, vintage 15 Comments

Front Porch Still-Life at Dusk

Old seltzer bottles, a birdcage, the texture of the wicker, some stained glass at dusk. J’s front porch with the sun sinking behind. Condensation inside the old glass, the metal tops. Artists usually arrange inanimate objects to create a still-life to paint or draw. This was already there, waiting. But then it is an artist’s house.

Still Life, a grouping of inanimate objects arranged in a pleasing composition — Setting sun through old turquoise and plain glass seltzer bottles

March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Things, vintageTags: Aspinwall, available light, farmhouse, front porch, glass bottles, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, retro, seltzer, still life, sunset, vintage, winter scene 8 Comments

Twisters Ice Cream at Night in the City

Coming off the Bloomfield Bridge I took a left to avoid the potholes and discovered Twisters Ice Cream. The dangling cones? Whoa. Drove around the block. Haven’t sampled their advertised soft or hard ice cream click on their name for a link to a map and review.

Twisters Ice Cream on Main Street — No parking on Main Street in Bloomfield, so shot from the driver's seat

March 4, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Night Light in the City, Places, vintageTags: available light, Bloomfield, childhood, city scene, ice cream, Main Street, memories, neighborhood, night, photography, Pittsburgh, retro, snow, soft serve, urban scene, vintage, winter scene 9 Comments

Vintage Yo-Yo Clown Doll Spared from Trash

Vintage Yo-yo- clown hanging around. Looking pretty sad. Full of dust.
Time to throw him out? V, we talked about things with a face! Fifty years of saving him, gave him a bath. Spared from the trash. Don’t remember really playing with him, just propped up on a bookshelf, flopped really. Colorful and jingles when you move him. The bells probably dangerous for a child. I think there are still people who make these yo-yo dolls and will check it out. He was just always there.

September 14, 2009 by Ruth Categories: Things, vintageTags: childhood, fabric, photo gallery, photography, toy, vintage, yo-yo clown, yo-yo doll 8 Comments

Art Deco Rivoli Theatre in Cedarburg Wisconsin

Driving past woolen mills,resale shops, an independent bookstore, saw this “white/black Art Deco Vitrolite facade” on Washington Avenue. Fully restored just two years ago as it turns out. A perfect summer afternoon.

Rivoli Theatre on Washington Ave Cedarburg WI

August 11, 2009January 3, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Places, vintageTags: Art Deco, Cedarburg WI, Rivoli Theatre, vitrolite 3 Comments

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2 Dr Chevrolet Coupe, c.1947? (2 views)

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