"Honest weights, square dealings" : that's Sepia Saturday. The Old Reliable weekly Blog provides a perfect pointer to those who want to link their old images to new memories. So when you are fishing around, trying to think of what to post for Sepia Saturday 102 (on or around Saturday 26th November 2011), take a look at this week's prompt photograph : there is so much going on here that it can give rise to the most complex flights of fancy. It is a 1936 photograph (brought to you courtesy of the Library of Congress) by that great American photographer Walker Evans and it is called "Roadside Stand Near Birmingham, Alabama". You can use this as a theme or you can post off-theme : the choice is yours. Just post, link and then take a look at some of your fellow sepia posters.
I am away Monday and Tuesday so I have put the call up a little earlier than usual. Gives you more time to think. Thanks for all the great contributions to SS101 : I think we are going from strength to strength.
ReplyDeleteThought I would post sooner than later this week, as I am still in the throws of taking care of loose ends after moving Mom and Dad in nursing/care homes, while packing for my own move, whew! Good luck Alan! Rosie
ReplyDeleteMy mind is whirling in what to post for this week! Despite the name of my blog I am not the fishing sort! - posting up in due course!
ReplyDeleteI've just found you through one of your followers. I'll be posting SS 102.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great picture. Doorways leading to more doorways, and that girl holding the edge of her skirt, posing for the picture, too.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great photo. Did you know Walker Evans was a postcard collector? A book about his postcard collection and articles about postcards was published a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm not trying to pull the scales over your eyes but there is so much happening in this photo.
ReplyDeleteI went down a reliable route for a moving experience.
ReplyDeleteThe front of Tesco or Morrison's wouldn't have the same power to let the imagination run riot.
ReplyDeletewhy did all these old roadside stands have such strange names... this one - FM Pointer...ours was "Shorty Umble's" but locals called it "Shorty Humble's"; another one I remember was "Starkey's"; but when you told strangers about it, they heard "Star Keys"; and Cocálico's became "Coca Licos"
ReplyDeleteCaught a fish ... then a giraffe .... then a great seal. You never know where these things are going to take you, do you?
ReplyDeleteFishing is the theme in my post today with a cartoon character thrown in as well.
ReplyDeleteI move from Springfield, Massachusetts to Detroit, MI in 1951 and return for a visit in 1967.
ReplyDeleteRudy caught some fish. He mighta liked to have some of that watermelon to go with it.
ReplyDeleteGloriously On-Theme This Week!
ReplyDeleteI'm early as well but what else can one do with a quiet post-Thanksgiving afternoon? I considered posting a few of my own 2005 Blackpool photos (including one of the Ark!) but they're not particularly Sepia and I think I'll save 'em for "The Eff-Stop" international blog!
ReplyDeleteI found a photo with a fish story!
ReplyDeleteNo watermelons or store fronts. But, definitely full of fish tales. Great photo prompt. So many possibilities ....
ReplyDeleteI get so easily distracted with so many ideas; once someone told me I have the attention span of a cocker spaniel. So it took application of discipline to continue my post this week and finish up from last week. So I did it and now can browse others.
ReplyDeleteSomething simple from me this weekend, but on the theme with a story of two boys.
ReplyDeleteSomething fishy this way come...
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HUGZ
Perhaps my post this morning can be allowed due the many shades of sepia I managed to produce, by accident! LOL
ReplyDeleteThat's a great picture. Lots of opportunity to theme, but unfortunately (for me) a lack of time this weekend. Have just about managed to escape the weekend visitors to submit the smallest of blog posts. Happy Sepia Saturday.
ReplyDeleteThe image is barely historical for me this week, though I suppose it depends on your perspective. I managed to work some history in though.
ReplyDeleteHi! I managed to squeeze mine into theme, barely. Still I think it is a great post, with the history of an old hot springs resort that is no longer there.
ReplyDeleteThanks, can't wait to visit you guys and see what you have done this week. Happy SS!
Kathy M.
Another from Great Granny's album - fishing in Scotland!
ReplyDeleteI didn't even look at your prompt and I managed to get a tiny fishing schooner in my post. What luck!
ReplyDeleteI barely made it thanks to a surprise visit of relatives. But I've got an old roadside apple stand for the theme.
ReplyDeletebarely made it also! Close to midnite on Sat :)
ReplyDeleteLoaded up a few older photos and a selection of new photos, where new memories have been created.
ReplyDeleteI REALLY enjoy old photographs like this to have the chance to take in so much information about the subject(s). This is no exception! Thanks for another great Sepia Saturday!
ReplyDeletewhy did all these old roadside stands have such strange names... this one - FM Pointer...ours was "Shorty Umble's" but locals called it "Shorty Humble's"; another one I remember was "Starkey's"; but when you told strangers about it, they heard "Star Keys"; and Cocálico's became "Coca Licos"
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