August 2010 © Gaia Son
Remembering Frans Broekveldt – 2 Oktober, 1940 – 9 Februari, 2009
Frans Broekveldt III – Adolescent in the Dam Square
Frans as a young adult.
Remembering my uncle Frans on his birthday. Back in 1978, I bought him the 12 inch single of Miss You by the Rolling Stones. Frans loved that song and it was on his turntable most of the time. Later that summer I danced next to Mick Jagger at Studio 54 and overheard he and Bianca having the most ridiculous argument at the bar. Never had a chance to share that story with my uncle. Miss you Oom Frans.
Den Haag Repaint – P. v. Osselen Automobielen Garage – Verhuur en reparatie van rijwielen en automobielen – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
Telephoon N° 661© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Verhuur en reparatie van rijwielen en automobielen – Rent and repair of bicycles (archaic) and automobiles © Gaia Son
I appreciate the efforts to restore these ads but I wish they would just leave them alone. Many are not nearly as aesthetically pleasing than the original fade (i.e. Philips, Harlingen NL).
Facial casts of Nias islanders, J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, 1910 – A Post-Colonial Simulacrum – Dutch History Exhibit – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Gaia Son
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© Gaia Son
Why do these men look so unhappy and violated?
After 1900, the colonial-military expansion of power in the Dutch East Indies opened it up as an unparalleled area of activity for Europeans. This also applied to the Dutch anthropologist J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, who conducted research on the physical characteristics of ethnic groups. During a 1910 expedition on Nias he covered the faces of a group of living men with plaster to record their appearance. Numbered casts of these plaster moulds were made in the Netherlands. – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Wholesale Grocers’ Sign Revealed on 55 Ludlow Street – Concord Painting Inc. – Glenn Adelson
© Glenn Adelson
© Glenn Adelson
© Glenn Adelson
© Glenn Adelson
Other Concord Painting signs featured on FAB:
- Fortunoff’s Sign’s Wall Dog Revealed – November 12, 2009
- 1650 Broadway – The Best Known Address in the Entertainment World – Concord Sign Co. – August 22, 2011
Glenn Adelson
Rigger License # 5652
CONCORD PAINTING INC
212 382 1100
600 Third Avenue 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
www.concordpainting.com
James Ensor exhibit in the Gemeentemuseum – The Hague, NL – 2011
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© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Courtesy of Gaia Son
The Despair of Pierrot (Jealous Pierrot) 1892
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. – Wikipedia
Handelshuis Hilvaria – Hilvaria Trading – Hilvarenbeek, NL – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
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© Gaia Son
In the early twentieth century….came Kees Schijvens’ Hilvaria bicycle factory to Diessenweg. Besides bicycles Kees also sold Wertheim sewing machines. – Tilburg Regional Archive
Brides in the Eucharistic procession, followed by the St. Sebastian’s Guild.In the background Handelshuis Hilvaria, owned by the Schijvens family. 1948 – Tilburg Regional Archive
