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- Not counting sheep tonight
- Where's the beef?
- The Old College Tree
- Pre-emptive measures
- Non-vegan
- Dutch elm disease
- Bands
- Before the Dutch Elm virus
- Elm Street
- Les Nessman
- A Vague Memory
- Ideal
- Like Elm Streets everywhere
- Still remember
- Alas, poor old stick
- The most famous Sephardic Jew
- Pop-Up Cadillac
- Those not busy being born
- From the looks of it
- It's Still There.
- Chilling.
- Put your hands in your pockets!
- Lots of Luggage
- Loss of Character
- Still there, of course.
- I know where you work!
- Pop-Up Plymouth
- The last year
- I see the train!
- Gullible me!
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In My Back Yard: 1929
Long Island or Connecticut circa 1929. "Unidentified women, possibly Elizabeth Duncan dancers." 4x5 nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.
I can't define "diaphanousness"
But I know it when I see it.
Why, umm, no.
"Does this gauzy dress-like garment with the rubber band thingy situated awkwardly beneath my posterior make me look fat?"
Isadora?
Shouldn't that be Isadora Duncan?
[Not when referring to her sister Elizabeth. -tterrace]
Ethereal
I love this photo! Reminiscent of the calm, less complex time, before our current high tech intensity.
It Happened to Us!
Our back yard has a big lawn surrounded by a small woods, making it feel quite pastoral. Once, our church filmed some interpretive dancers doing their bit back there. So, this picture is as relevant now as it was nearly a century ago!
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