Simple And Innocent
Mar. 7th, 2018 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo
Two more items from the collection....
I checked on eBay and elsewhere- and these vintage Models of Yesteryear are worth very little. Which is fine because I have no intention of selling. They are however doubly ancient- being 50 year old representations of vehicles that were 50 years old at the time of manufacture. So- nostalgia squared!
Not that I'm much of a one for nostalgia. Just the other day the Mail published a set of colourised images of what their copywriter called "simple, innocent times". They showed- among other things- a landscape of the Great War, slum kids. a bunch of Etonians in top hats yawping at a little old flower seller and a socialite who was famous for her blow-jobs. Simple and innocent, my foot!
I did think of calling this post Transport of Delight- in homage to Flanders and Swann- but the vehicle they sang about- the big six-wheeler, scarlet painted, London Transport, diesel engine, 97 horsepower omnibus- was of another, later era.
Hold very tight, please- ting-ting.
