***Mini-Challenge #433***Non Living Subjects On Display"

[Bill Borne]

you said it all Bill

Well, Mike I don't know what else to say....?

 

[66GTO]

Oldsmobile Rocket To Oblivion

Displayed at GM Heritage Center Sterling Heights MI

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Crazy old man! Slow down. You are way too old to be
hunting hemi's in that 66GTO.

 

[Bill Borne]

Oldsmobile Rocket To Oblivion

Displayed at GM Heritage Center Sterling Heights MI

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Crazy old man! Slow down. You are way too old to be
hunting hemi's in that 66GTO.

Thanks for that one Guy. Neon!

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[RLBur]

I snapped this from the deck of the USS Midway, in San Diego.

The 25 foot, 7-ton bronze statue, was designed by artist Seward Johnson, is officially known as “Unconditional Surrender” — recreates the famous embrace between a sailor and a nurse celebrating the end of World War II in New York’s Times Square in 1945.

 

[elliottnewcomb]

let's not forget Bill Cunningham's Nikon in Bergdorf Goodman's window honoring him







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Elliott

 

[elliottnewcomb]

I snapped this from the deck of the USS Midway, in San Diego.

The 25 foot, 7-ton bronze statue, was designed by artist Seward Johnson, is officially known as “Unconditional Surrender” — recreates the famous embrace between a sailor and a nurse celebrating the end of World War II in New York’s Times Square in 1945.

She just died, announced NYT 9-11-16

NEW YORK — The woman in an iconic photo shown kissing an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. Greta Zimmer Friedman was 92.

Friedman, who fled Austria during the war as a 15-year-old, died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, from complications of old age, her son, Joshua Friedman, said.

Greta Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform when she became part of one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.

On Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day Japan surrendered to the United States, people spilled into the New York City streets from restaurants, bars and movie theaters, celebrating the news.

That's when George Mendonsa spotted Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss. The two had never met. In fact, Mendonsa was on a date with an actual nurse, Rita Petry, who would later become his wife.

The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called "V-J Day in Times Square," but is known to most simply as "The Kiss." Mendonsa said that in some photos of the scene, Petry could be seen smiling in the background.

Another image from a different angle was taken by U.S. Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen but it was Eisenstaedt's photo that became seared in people's minds. His photo was first published in Life magazine, buried deep within its pages. Over the years, the photo gained recognition, and several people claimed to be the kissing couple.

In an August 1980 issue of Life, 11 men and three women said they were the subjects. It was years before Mendonsa and Friedman were confirmed to be the couple.

Joshua Friedman said his mother recalled the events happening in an instant.

"It wasn't that much of a kiss," Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005. "It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn't a romantic event."

Both of Friedman's parents died in the Holocaust, according to Lawrence Verria, co-author of "The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II."

Friedman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to her late husband, Dr. Misha Friedman.

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Elliott

 

[Bill Borne]

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Nice one Randy

 

[Bill Borne]

let's not forget Bill Cunningham's Nikon in Bergdorf Goodman's window honoring him

I haven't forgotten it

 

[RLBur]

Arrgh, ''tis true.

We are making you work hard with this MC, Bill!

 

[Bill Borne]

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