The set reminds me of one of my favorite Sting songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9FZ8e6d1Q On 4/7/2014 8:04 AM, Mark C wrote:
"Again '2'" - nice painting. Almost Norman Rockwell-ish in the theme but not the execution. I've never seen street cleaners like those - must of been quite a sound as the fleet of them passed by! Thanks for posting the link - Mark On 4/7/2014 12:34 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:Mark, Yes, those are indeed street cleaners. An interesting fact about those: In 1980s and early 1990s, it was possible to catch a ride with them during late night time, when the city transportation ground transport was not running anymore; they were a somewhat cheaper alternative to a taxi. Of course, it was unofficial, and you wouldn't get a receipt. :-) As for "Dogulyalsya", - for me, it is reminiscent of a widely known in Russia painting by F.P. Reshetnikov "Again '2'" ('2' is a school mark equivalent to a "D" (or "F") in the US): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/14/Opyat_dvoyka.jpg Cheers, Igor On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Mark C <pdml-mark at charter.net> wrote:Interesting collection indeed... Strokes of Childhood - are those street cleaners? Dogulyalsya is probably my favorite. On 4/6/2014 8:52 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:I thought some PDMLers would find it interesting: I came across this set of old photographs from the Soviet Union from 40s-70s. One photo is NSFW for some work environments. ("The birth of [hu]man") The page with Google-Translated captions: http://goo.gl/T1bvyo The original page is here: http://www.adme.ru/illustration-and-photography/40-genialnyh-sovetskih-fotografij-660805/ Cheers, Igor PS. A few corrections for the caption translations and comments: 1. For the car enthusiasts: New "The Cossacks." should be ``New "Zaporozhets' '' ("Zaporozhets" is a make of the cheapest and smallest mass-produced car in the Soviet Union. It was exported to some "Eastern Bloc" countries, and presumably only German (GDR) Trabant was worse. http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658533_1658030,00.html 2. Last photo, the newspaper article title says "Who will be the new owner of the dating service?" And that's the photo caption. 3. The second to the last photo: "Dogulyalsya" - Google failed to translate. Ghm... very loosely: "finally... after playing outdoors". 4. In the 3rd from the beginning of the set (not counting the top one), the note says: "I need a ticket to Richter" (performance of Franz Richter's pieces).
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