https://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:24:51 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios icepixie personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/1139830/172016 https://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/840545.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:24:51 GMT https://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/840545.html Someone save me. I have discovered <a href="http://www.shorpy.com">Shorpy</a>, and I'm not sure I'll ever come out.<br /><br />Particularly when the guy behind it posts pictures like <a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/6686">the most adorable dog in the world</a>. Or <a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/2630">weird shots like this</a>.<br /><br />In fact, here's a bunch of links.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/8982">COME TO CANADA! (Please?)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/9629">Colorized version of above.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/11938">Dramatic Grand Central Terminal scene. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/11997">Stocking stuffer. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/11510">Oh, what those crazy rich girls of 1926 got up to. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/10531">They were apparently popular photographic subjects. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/3612">They had a fun day.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/1653">Don't mind me, just chillin' on the streetcorner...</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/1157">Saddest merry-go-round ever.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/11517">Harlem River, 1890 (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/8349">I can feel my soul shriveling as I look at this.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/6175">Looks like someone skipped over to Redverse!</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/7289">So much drama in everyone's expression here.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/7278">Leapfrogging.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/3065">Obligatory Dorothea Lange, but not the ones you're thinking of.</a> (<a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/7546">Also in color.</a>)<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/Dorothea-Lange">Speaking of which, nice shoes, Ms. Lange.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/4365">Polar bears like jazz.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/10263">Working paddlewheelers. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/8519">What a cute little airplane! Let me give you a hug! (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/7978">DC street, 1918. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/7636">Dallas noir. (colorized)</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/Saddle-Shoes-and-Bobby-Sox">Saddle shoes.</a><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/11123">"Why would you do this to me? Why?"</a><br /><br />(Also there is <a href="http://www.retronaut.com">Retronaut</a>, which has such amusing collections as <a href="http://www.retronaut.co/2011/11/black-cat-auditions-in-hollywood-1961/">black cat auditions in 1961</a>. I like the groupings, but I find them harder to navigate than Shorpy.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=icepixie&ditemid=840545" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/840545.html amusements on the intertubes history "Written on the Back of His Hand" - Lucy Kaplansky enthralled public 0