postcard week, cont'd

[fflo]

Silver Top Awnings of White Marsh, Maryland






(These last two maybe not so interesting, but I like cards of stores. Funny, to me.)


more coming later... with a contest

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The first postcard is one of my favorite mysterious machines--the dirty towel enters the machine in back, but comes out the front of the machine clean! The miracle of Stainless Steel

The second--there is a cognitive dissonance here. You see, men in hats like that are by definition older than me, unless they are playing dress-up. But if I look at the picture, I can see youth in that face. Like he's just in his 20's. But my brain sees the hat and says "he's older than me--at least 40." And then I realize I'm effing 47 years old myself.

How can a man half my age be older than me?

I remember hearing about an artist who suffered a severe head injury in a car accident, lost his color vision, and began to see the world in vivid black and white. If that happens to me, then, and only then, I'll shave, get a haircut, and become mature enough to wear a hat like that.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I think Oliver Sacks wrote about that artist. You like Sacks? Me like Sacks.

My theory on the hat thing is that the men-wear-hats thing petered out with the guys about 20 years older than Peter. Meaning that, as Peter came up, the guys wearing hats were probably the guys about that much older.

Shame they've never come back like in the old movies.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I heard of the artist on a PBS documentary on unusual variations of the human mind and perceptions a few years ago.

The problem with those hats coming back is that when I see them on a young man, it looks silly to me, like a six-year-old girl in her mommy's high heels and evening gown. I just don't think they *could* come back.

I picture someday going to the Fedora Faire--a faux early 20th century town where the anachronistic buskers play jazz between the makeshift consession stand and the porta-potties, and the ticket takers speak in faux Raymond Chandler.

It just won't be right.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Real men still wear hats.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I love the ones of the stores too. Its as though I can immerse myself in the time period, and walk around the stores into the classic neighborhoods of yesteryear...which frankly I would adore.