Found on the Ground

Philadelphia at Night Postcard

Found 11/06, 18th & Market

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Glamour Girl

FOTG is back!

Found 10/06, Market Street

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PAT=RAT

"POLICE- DON'T MOVE"

"SUCKASS"

"PAT=RAT"

Today's Found on the Ground is dedicated to my sister (and FOTG super finder) Stranger in the Background.

Why is she Stranger in the Background?  That is the name of a blog she has been procrasinating about for months now.

You know when you take a nice picture of your Mom at Disney World, only to find later that some moron behind her was scratching his butt, or had a mullet and a tattoo of a Mexican Playboy Bunny Logo complete with mustache, Mexican party hat, and cigar?   Y'know how hilarious that is? 

Well, shouldn't SOMEONE be photo blogging that??  SOMEONE who happens to be in possession of just these sorts of photos?  C'mon SITB, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.  Start the Stranger in the Background blog. 

Oh yeah, and these posts are also in response to her scolding to me that I need to "focus more on things that are actually Found on the Ground, as advertised in the title of the blog."

Thanks, Sis, will do.

Found 2006, New York City

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Navy Overseas Photos

I found these inside [book] while I was working at the Naval Academy.

I consider this to be the best thing I have ever found.

The picture of the woman is my favorite, but the picture of the boat is the most informative: It has CL145 stenciled on it.

I believe it is a dinghy belonging to the Naval vessel USS Roanoke (CL145), a Worcester Class light cruiser in service from 1949-1958.

If you look in the background of the boat picture, you can see a fighting ship, and perhaps it is the Roanoke.

She served in both Atlantic and Pacific, so I'm not sure where these pictures were taken.  Possibly in Algiers, as suggested by this site. But it was almost certainly before 1955 or so:

"In the United States Navy, light cruisers have the hull classification symbol CL. Both heavy cruisers and light cruisers were classified under CL after 1931, hence there are some missing hull numbers, see List of light cruisers of the United States.

After the development of seaborne guided missiles in the 1950s, all remaining cruisers armed solely with guns, regardless of calibre were redesignated as "Gun Cruisers" (hull classification symbol CA), with guided missile cruisers (which generally carry some gun armament) gaining the new hull classification symbol CG.

-from Wikipedia entry.

I have contacted the point person for the former crew of this ship and await his response about the photos.

Found 4/22/00, US Naval Academy Nimitz Library

Row LI 1, second row from door, on right under the book US Submarine Operations in WWII by Roscoe, call number D783.R6

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Picture Frame

These photos were in a vintage pocket-sized picture frame I bought at Salvation Army.

That dashing fellow on the right is one of those pictures that comes with a picture frame when you buy it.  But the baby picture is real.

Kind of sad.  I mean, either the previous owner took the other photo out and didn't want to keep this baby picture, or it was donated as-is, and they didn't have anybody else's picture, so they kept Mr. McPhotoson there on the right.

The frame has a neat little design where the rings hold the photos in place, and is about 1"x 1".

Found 7/16/06, Salvation Army at 23rd & Market

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A Summer Storm...

...Or the Opening of the 7th Seal?

Found 7/28/06, Market Street

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Christmas Picture

There can be nothing more boring than a Christmas Picture of some kids you don't even know.  Look at them, not an ugly one in the bunch!  Nothing whatsoever to make fun of.  It's not even in color, for goodness sakes. 

Found 7/06, 20th and Market

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Taking a Break at 170 Feet

Here are some guys taking a break...

...17 stories above the ground.

"OK, now GBTW, youse guys!"

"Yep, I've got it with this one hand here, you can let 'er go!

Found 8/2/06, Market Street

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