Dynaflow Blues, The Johnny Shines Blues Band (1965) Vanguard Johnny Shines (1915-1992) played with some of the greatest bluesmen of his time, including Robert Johnson. He recorded sporadically from 1946 with little success, and in 1952 sold his equipment and returned to construction. Vanguard Records found him in 1965 and revived his career.
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The early Thanksgiving Day parades often had a circus orientation, and hence the animal elements. Actual lions, tigers, and bears were trucked down city streets, traumatizing them and causing the elicitation of roars and growls that frightened observing children. Wisely, the use of living animals was abandoned after a few years, with animal balloons and floats substituted, together with some great vintage cartoonish stuff that was rather surreal.
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Wooden waterwheel in front of Huanglong Cave (Yellow Dragon Cave) is a karst cave located near the Wulingyuan District of Zhangjiajie City, Hunan, China.
“Turns out the area that these wheels were traditionally in was flooded as part of the 3 gorges dam, so this is a reconstruction for people to see what they would have looked like.” -comment on Reddit
Everything ancient in China is almost always a reproduction, including this. It’s an elaborate kinetic sculpture – the water mill doesn’t appear to mill anything. China lets you look around the cave a bit on Google Maps street view: 29°22’1.62″N 110°36’47.79″E
Una construcción maravillosa para alojar los placeres que las mujeres de San Petersburgo se daban en 1973.
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The Niva button factory in Patisia, Greece, opened in the 1940s and remained in operation for decades before being abandoned.
“The photo was available on various international websites. Most of them state that it is an abandoned button factory in China. […] With a little searching and a lot of luck, we found where the ghost factory really is! It is not in the Chinese city of Longhua Shenzhen, as mentioned in most posts, nor are we talking about a set photo. The abandoned button factory is located in Patisia!”
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