Rocketts, Hanover County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1935.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890657/
  

Magnum, P.I. - Murder by Night

 

Period Magnum. Season seven, episode 13. Jan. 14, 1987.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639697/

https://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season7/Murder_by_Night.html

Based on the final scene, the events of Magnum's dream are based on a story he recently wrote called Murder by Night, his first attempt at fiction writing.

Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are "name-checked" by Higgins (in Magnum's dream).

Christine: (to Magnum) Will you have a drink? I don't trust a man who won't have a drink.

Windsor Castle, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1935.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890675/
  

Yankee dugout, Apr. 25, 1923. Players in and in front of dugout.

 

• 1923 Apr. 25.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2001704405/
  

Smithfield Farm, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1935.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890671/
  

Garden State Light

 

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/garden-state.html

General Price and the Pepper Bench

 

Put all the peppers on benches after bringing them in for a late freeze and then had to add a bench for General Price, a long one, to keep him off the peppers. 

CBS Network - Mister Dugan [with Cleavon Little] [Unaired "Cancelled" / "Lost" Show] (Promo, 1979)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dugan

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1669772/

Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips (Commercial, 1979)

 

Tai-Pan - James Clavell

 

1966 published. Hong Kong. Set in 1840s. Opium smuggling. The events in this book lead into Noble House, which I re-read last year. Good book. Keeps you up late. Shogun is next. King Rat is the first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai-Pan_(novel)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-clavell/tai-pan/

Denechaud Hotel, New Orleans, La.

 

• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• [between 1900 and 1910]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016814767/
  

Southern Select

 

A Pike's Peak prospector

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• [ca. 1900]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016808845/
  

1980 Mrs Goodcookie Commercial

 

Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island, Niagara

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• [between 1880 and 1897]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797477/
  

Poppin Fresh Pies (Commercial, 1982)

 

Schell's

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Schell_Brewing_Company

70's Ads: Pillsbury Poppin' Fresh Dough Chocolate Chip Cookies 1977

 

Midlothian Pike Minor Houses, Midlothian Pike, Chesterfield County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1933.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890396/
  

Westover, Charles City vic., Charles City County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1931.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890357/
  

Bremo Recess, Fork Union vic., Fluvanna County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• 1931.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017890505/
  

[St. Finbar's Cathedral. County Cork, Ireland]

 

• [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
• Photochrom print.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2002717384/
  

Warrenton Country School, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [between ca. 1930 and 1939]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017892677/
  

Unidentified house, Middleburg vic., Loudoun County, Virginia

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [between ca. 1930 and 1939]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017892696/
  

[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland]

 

• [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
• Photochrom prints
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2002717396/
  

Fighting Irish Beer

 

[Ste. Claire Hotel, Detroit, Mich.]

 

• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• [between 1900 and 1915]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016810799/
  

Hauenstein

 

New Ulm beer. 

The Ground Round (Commercial, 1981)

 

Cheers Promos

 

In the comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers

Hotel Astor, New York

 

Some of these old hotels have interesting backstories and I like the horse drawn carriages in many of them.

• Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• c1904.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016803792/
  

Polar Star - Martin Cruz Smith

 

Arkady Renko is in exile on a factory fishing ship in the North Pacific when a dead woman shows up in the nets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Star_(novel)

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/martin-cruz-smith.html

701 Bourbon St., corner St. Peters St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [between ca. 1930 and 1939]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017886913/
  

Cookie Monster PSA 1977

 

Red Square - Martin Cruz Smith

 

Arkady Renko. Third in the series after Gorky Park and Polar Star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square_(novel)

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/martin-cruz-smith.html

Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Va.

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• c1902.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016809022/
  

Bergheim

 

https://www.brewaf.com/history/reading/

[Portrait of Bill Harris, William P. Gottlieb's home (table tennis room), N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947]

 

• For two consecutive years Bill Harris has been selected as the No. 1 trombone player of the country in the annual Down Beat poll. He posed twice for the current cover, once to permit staff lensman Bill Gottlieb to shoot the bell of his horn for a background, then unsmilingly for the photo itself. Bill may go to Milwaukee next month with the Charlie Ventura unit to open at the Continental club there on May 5
• Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)
• 1947, monographic.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.03921/
  

Stretch It Out

 

General Price.

Erle Stanley Gardner

 

Crime fiction. Perry Mason. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erle_Stanley_Gardner

https://crimereads.com/perry-mason-and-the-case-of-the-wildly-successful-perpetually-restless-author/

Henry's Restaurants - "Captain Henry" (Commercial, 1969)

 

Katz

 

https://northeastnews.net/pages/private-label-branding-katz-beer-style/

Mrs. Goodcookie - "Always Time To Bake Good Cookies" (Commercial, 1977)

 

[Red peppers with plant growing in the background]

 

• [between 1800 and 1860]
• -  Hot peppers--Japan--1800-1860
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2009630032/
  

[Bottle of royal pepper sauce made for Horton-Cato Co.]

 

This morning I planted four tabasco plants in pots and three banana peppers. I am going to pickle some and dry some of the tabascos, then you can grind them for red pepper flakes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_pepper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_pepper

• [between 1900 and 1905]
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016795721/
  

Mackinac Island from Round Island, Michigan

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• c1899.
• Photochrom prints--Color.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016802632/
  

Sunset in the Royal Gorge, Col.

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• c1901.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016796650/
  

Bookmarks XIV

 

Bookmark. 

Bookmarks XIII - Movies

 

Bookmark.

"Slingin Sammy" Baugh

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Baugh

• Harris & Ewing, photographer
• "Slingin Sammy" Baugh, Washington, D.C., Sept. 11. "Slinging Sammy" Baugh, new addition to the Washington Redskins, the Texas Christian U. star is rated as one of the greatest of this generation as far as the passing game goes. Sammy's most recent feat was the practical winning alone of the Green Bay all stars game at Chicago with a series of sensational passes, he is 24 years old, weighs 190, and is six feet tall, followers of professional football will hear a lot from Sammy this fall, 9/11/37
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016877914/

Vogue - McNamara Ski House

 

• Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer
• February 2, 1969.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2021752831/
  

Cherry Pie

 

Barnes, Will R., -1939 (Costume designer)

1923-24.

R. H. Burnside collection

Series III: Production designs

Will R. Barnes

Stepping Stones: Sweet Shop

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1b80e070-1ffb-0131-b13e-58d385a7bbd0