My Daily Banana
Photo of the Day
Event of the Day:
11th August 1968
The last steam train runs on the British Rail
Dirty, soot spitting monsters! Today everyone is pleased to see a steam engine, it doesn't matter if it is a locomotive or a traction engine both are loved, but; think back to the fifties and sixties, the towns were black and where the rail track meandered through the city the houses looked like the inside of a chimney (if you've never seen the inside of a chimney its similar to the inside of an auto exhaust: black!) I remember traveling into London by rail, the houses looked terrible; today they look terrible also because of graffiti; in those days the paint wouldn't have stuck to the walls because of the soot. No, I don't want the old times to come back, today is a much healthier environment!
Birthday of the Day:
11th August 1954
Joe Jackson
An English musician, punk to jazz. His most known songs were recorded in the late seventies early eighties such as Steppin' Out or You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) and Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Died on this Day:
11th August 1939
Jean Bugatti
German automobile designer
Thoughts:
As you saw over the weekend I'm taking it a little slower. I had the weekend off and managed to read the newspapers.
Yesterday Heike and I went to Husum, a small town in North Friesland with a population of around twenty-five thousand. There was a festival down at the old harbour and throughout the town centre; that means thousands of people milling through eat-stalls, music-stages, happenings, street-musicians, fairground attractions. It was like a human ants-nest! Nothing for me , I kept to the perimeter, I can't stand milling through crowds I get claustrophobic!
I took tons of photos of doors, the church, people and tried to capture the general atmosphere. Some of the old doors were incredible, see for yourselves:
Na, did you get through all the doors?
Aren't they amazing?
Bye
