Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (54 Viewers)

[Snautzer01]

I am 84 years old

Yet a good eye for a gorgeous lady. I must say.

 

[manta22]

Yet a good eye for a gorgeous lady. I must say.

That eye does not dim.

 

[Shinpachi]

Skeleton car or glass car "Olympia" at a motor show in Kaiserdamm, Berlin in 1937.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1937)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Njaco]

German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction March 1940.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[manta22]

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The building on the right in my photo is the Dai-Ichi building, MacArthur's headquarters but the two larger buildings may be the same as two in your photo. It looks like that was pre-war Tokyo.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

New Japanese foreign minister Naotake Sato (1882-1971) talks to cameras on March 6, 1937.
Letters "Tokyo News" is seen on the left camera as well as "Asahi News" on the center microphone.
Hard to find Fox Movietone camera now.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1937)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Korean giant Mr. Kim Bu-gwi (32) appears in Tokyo on March 22, 1937.
His height is 242.4cm (or 7.95feet).

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1937)

 

[Shinpachi]

Source: https://auctions.afimg.jp/k1039044371/ya/image/k1039044371.9.jpg

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Prince Chichibu (*Hirohito's brother) visits Staple Fiber Exhibition being held at Commerce and Industry Promotion Hall on January 10, 1937.

No explanation what the figure on the right symbolizes. Mystery

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Jan. 1937)

 

[Zippythehog]

Prince Chichibu (*Hirohito's brother) visits Staple Fiber Exhibition being held at Commerce and Industry Promotion Hall on January 10, 1937.

No explanation what the figure on the right symbolizes. Mystery

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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Jan. 1937)

Say, maybe we could ask a high school student???

 

[Wurger]

What for? It's quite a popular posture on the monuments. It is a clear .. he points .. soon the level of s**t will reach up to there.

 

[Shinpachi]

I meant why such a figure for the Staple Fiber Exhibition as the products was made in Japan

 

[Shinpachi]

Were their uniforms woven by Japanese staple fiber?
May be impossible

Source: Berlin Olympic Games (Manchuria Nichi-nichi Press in 1936)

 

[Shinpachi]

Not necessarily impossible.
There are a lot of things I don't know about my own country

Source: Marubeni Thread/Fabric Statistics 1940