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Old Posted Feb 23, 2017, 5:21 AM
Tourmaline Tourmaline is offline
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal View Post
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Interesting...I wondered how people selling things on eBay would react if one offered correct information. I'd rather some of them would say they don't really know, but that it might be...such and such. Of course, their main interest is in selling it. Maybe NLA could open a location detective service!



Coincidental to reading your post and OT's post, was my viewing of this image - identified by source as "Couple on a bicycle built for two, ca.1900."

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Photograph of a couple on a bicycle built for two, ca.1900. A woman dressed in a darkly colored formal Victorian style dress sits to the right on the front of a bicycle with two seats. A man wearing a darkly colored suit and bowler hat sits on the back as he supports the bicycle with his left foot. The woman holds onto the handle bars and places both feet on the pedals. The couple smiles at the camera while a sidewalk and stone building are visible behind them. One of the partially obscured stones behind the woman reads ..."field"[?]....
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...oll65/id/18018

While the description is accurate, a closer look reveals a familiar face (or two).




Flat tire!


With a certain amount of trepidation, here is a still of William Holden and Bonita Granville from the 1940 movie, "Those Were The Days."
http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm...o97o1_1280.jpg

Last edited by Tourmaline; Feb 23, 2017 at 5:36 AM.
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