amylsacks' photos with the keyword: flag

"This view shows the Portland Central Bus Depot, the Y.W.C.A., Y.M.C.A., the Journal Clock, Meier and Frank (Largest Department Store on Pacific Coast), and the shopping district in the background." It's also from before trees were invented. (And soon there won't be any more trees, so this view will be timely once more! :P ) "Angelus Commercial Studio. Portland, Oregon." The vehicles suggest that this could have been the 1930s or 40s. Enlarged to show detail.

This unfortunate juxtaposition brings to mind a Nineties zine I've got somewhere. The author recounted being horribly underpaid at his job while being nagged by his bosses to bring in food for a charity drive. So he took a can of beans and a can of pet food and switched the labels before presenting the "beans" to his stingy bosses. "Love Me," for sure. :/ From the October issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Sent from Motomachi, Toyonaka-city, Osaka, Japan to Radio W7BDU in Portland, Oregon.

"The highway code requires driving on the right, overtaking on the left." And please, no flinging empty beer steins out the windows of moving vehicles, either.

"Glorious sands, bathers and sea-gulls: typical scene representative of the seaside resorts on the North Sea and Baltic coasts (Benser, Dusseldorf)." We're only a couple of steps away from a Gary Larson cartoon here.

"Top: North German scene (Hartz, Hamburg).-- Right: Kurfurstendamm, Berlin Eschen, Berlin (Eschen, Berlin).-- Bottom: Scene in the German Alps (Arnold, Fussen).-- Left: The Rhine near Bonn (Sachsse, Bonn)." Front cover of a 36-page promo published by "Bund Deutscher Verkehsverbande (Frankfurt am Main, Beethovenstr. 69... Designed by: Grave-Schmandt, Frankfurt/M."

Hey, Yellow Pants, just take the damn necktie off! Front and back covers of a 16-page promo published by Sealtest Laboratory Kitchen, New York, NY.

"Simon Roggo, for 40 years a European as well as an American chef of note, has set down in an understandable way some of the better known dishes..." A 32-pager from Kurt H. Volk, Inc. for the Remington DuPont line of kitchen cutlery/utensils. Originally posted to flickr on 1/29/11.