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Chaussures Orthopédiques – Orthopedic Shoes – Bergerac, FR – Bastiaan van Buiten

Jan 20th, 2015

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The Griffinette Lounge – The Griffin Bar – Glasgow, Scotland UK – Marie Anne O’Donnell

Jan 16th, 2015

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266 Bath Street, Glasgow. G2 4JP. Tel: 01413315171.

The Griffin 1991.

Designed by architect William Reid in 1903 for publican Duncan Tweedley. The original carved wood frontage is still intact however the original large etched glass windows are not. The interior bar counter has stayed intact as some of the old features including the ceiling.

When Tweedley was in occupancy of this pub it was named The King’s Arms, after the King’s Theatre across the Road.

There has been a pub on this site since 1865 owned by publican John Lawrie, Mr Lawrie was trading as a Wine & Spirit Merchant in the city since the 1840s having pubs in 161-63 Sauchiehall Street, 151 Queen Street, and 16 Howard Street.

Duncan Tweedley took over the business from Martin Wallace in 1891, he had the old premises demolished and a new tenement with a pub on the ground floor erected in 1903.

Another well known publican to hold the licence for the premises was George W Owen. George also owned the Empire Bar, West Nile Street, The Bay Horse and the Garrick.

The Griffin was named after publican William Griffin who occupied the pub during the 1960s and 70s. A new lounge and dining area was later installed and named the Griffin and Griffinette. – Old Glasgow Pubs dot co dot uk

M. Knopf & Co. – Monoprix – Colmar, Alsace FR – Gaia Son

Jan 15th, 2015

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Colmar Kaufhaus M. Knopf & Cie Feldpost CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – delcampe dot net

Dating back to 1898, the headquarters of the Strasbourg branch of the Knopf dynasty: the office of the Strasbourg Berninger & Krafft designed for Moritz Knopf’s warehouse Palace. Photo: Municipal Archives Strasbourg

Hertie, Kaufhof, Karstadt, Schocken, Wertheim and: Knopf. In this illustrious line of German, to exclusively Jewish Karstadt department store companies to find the name Knopf may surprise you. But at least until the end of World War II was the Knopf department store chain, founded by three siblings Max Knopf (Karlsruhe), Moritz Knopf (Strasbourg) and Sally Knopf (Freiburg), the three great equals of this industry. Knopf had beside Freiburg not just branch plants in Lörrach, Emmendingen, Offenburg and Schopfheim: A total of more than 50 branches and partner companies in Southern Germany, Switzerland, Alsace and the Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg were part of the Knopf empire – and large, magnificent Department stores in major cities such as Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt and Strasbourg. – Badische Zeitung

Bartissol – Campsegret Rte. N21, France – Gaia Son

Jan 6th, 2015

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Un million dans un verre
Bartissol
si délicieux à l’apéritif

One million in a glass
Bartissol
So delicious as an aperitif.

The slogan alludes to a very popular radio advertising campaign of the 1950s. If you happened to produce a Bartissol cap to the right person (a radio man in disguise) you could win a million centimes. – from Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Roadside Painted Advertisements [www.elve.net/padv/]

Pernod (France)

Tile-red, amber, amber “hors d’âge”: whatever its style, Bartissol presents aromas packed with Mediterranean sunshine. Created in 1904 by Edmond Bartissol, after the second world war the aperitif obtained Appellation Rivesaltes Contrôlée, making it a feature at the most festive gastronomic events. Perfect neat, on ice, with a slice of orange or lemon. – Pernod Website (France)

Edmond Bartissol was a French politician born on 20 December 1841 in Portel (Aude), and died on 16 August 1916 in Paris .

Civil engineer, he participated in the drilling [of the] Suez Canal in 1866. In 1874, he participated in the railway construction in Spain and Portugal and the construction of the metro Lisbon. He was a member of the Pyrénées-Orientales from 1889 to 1893 sitting with moderate Republicans. Beaten by Jules Pams in 1893, he ran in 1898 in the Aude, where he was narrowly elected and disabled. Became mayor of Fleury-Merogis , he finds a parliamentary seat in the Pyrenees-Orientales from 1902 to 1910 serving in Progressive Republicans .

In 1904 he created the sweet wine that bears his name, Bartissol . – Wikipedia (France)

Le Mieux Informe – Le Petit Journal – Six Pages – Limeuil, Dordogne FR – Gaia Son

Jan 5th, 2015

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Konstantin Stoitzner (1863–1934): “Le petit journal”

Charles Terront pictured on the front page of the 20 September 1891 edition of Le Petit Journal after his Paris-Brest et retour victory. n 1891, Le Petit Journal created the Paris–Brest–Paris road cycling race. Its editor Pierre Giffard promoted it as Paris-Brest et retour in his editorials which he signed “Jean-sans-Terre”. It is now established as the oldest long-distance cycling road event. – Wikipedia

Better Informed, The Little Newspaper – Six Pages

Chapelle de St Martin, just North of the village of Limeuil, Dordogne – Gaia Son

Le Petit Journal was established in 1863 [and ceased publication in 1944]. In the 1890s, at the height of its popularity, the newspaper had a circulation of a million copies, and by 1884 it also included a weekly illustrated supplement…It was founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud. In its columns were published several serial novels of Émile Gaboriau and of Ponson du Terrail. – Wikipedia

Also see Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Roadside Painted Advertisements [www.elve.net/padv/en/newsp.htm]

Hotel Gauniere – Issigeac, FR – Gaia Son

Dec 30th, 2014

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Former Hotel Cro-Magnon – Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil – Aquitaine, FR – Gaia Son

Dec 29th, 2014

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Le plus confortable, le plus tranquille, table soignee.

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It means that the hotel is the most comfortable and quiet and the food is excellent (the table is very well taken care of’). The former Hotel Cro-Magnon, on the road between the hole-in-the-wall Campagne and the village of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil. – Gaia Son

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Occitan: Las Aisiás de Taiac e Siruèlh) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil lies in the Périgord Noir area. It is served by the Gare des Eyziesrailway station. This locale is home to the Musée national de Préhistoire (fr) (National Museum of Prehistory) and the area contains several important archaeological sites, including the Font-de-Gaume, Grotte du Grand-Roc (fr) and Lascaux cave prehistoric rock dwellings. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979. – Wikipedia

Featured Fade – Fireproof Warehouse – Day & Meyer, Murray & Young Corp – Portovault – Steel Vault Storage – Second Avenue & East 61st Street, NYC – Asaf Ben-Gai

Dec 27th, 2014

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Day & Meyer, packing, shipping and storage, was formed around 1894 by Herbert W. Day (1867-?) and Gustave E. Meyer (1862?-?). They were located downtown on 5th Ave (around 27th St.) and on W. 31st St. until around 1906. They relocated to 341 4th Ave. (southeast corner of 25th St.) in 1906 and then moved uptown to 305 E. 61st St. in 1920. And it was around this time that they merged with Murray & Young, movers, to form the present company. Murray & Young were Thomas F. Murray (1887-?) and Chester Forrest Young (1884-1976). – W. Grutchfield – FOR MORE SEE WALTER GRUTCHFIELD