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Rare Jockey Club Brasileiro Demitasse Spoon – 1950s

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From the famous Jockey Club Brasileiro (Brazilian Jockey Club)

A beautiful and vintage Demitasse Spoon
Marked Hercules Inox
Properly hallmarked and verified as original and genuine.

– The spoon is from the 1950s as it has been in our family since at least then.

– From the world-famous Jockey Club in Rio de Janeiro which was founded in 1932

– The overall length of the spoon is 110 mm

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The official logo of the original design that appears on the spoon.

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Front view of the spoon.

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Always very popular throughout its history – a view of the crowds in the stands of a major horse race in the 1940s.

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Keeping a close watch on her horse – 1950s (maybe).

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The markings on the back of the spoon.

It makes for an interesting conversation piece when you present it to a guest with their coffee or tea. Own a piece of history!

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Jockey Club Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro – Hipódromo da Gávea

It’s available for sale at www.ccstudio2380.com

Thanks for stopping by! – Chris

Happy SUNday! – Dolls from Yokohama and more.

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When Carol and I lived in Yokohama in the late 1970s, a wonderful local artist made these dolls for us. We’ve kept them in a glass display cabinet all of these years and they remind us of how much we enjoyed our time there. Such artistry! Dolls photographed with my Samsung Galaxy S4 camera.

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Morning glory on the garden shed – Yokohama 1978. The door was salvaged from the local Navy Lodge from their vast trove of bits and pieces in the maintenance office. This image is scanned from a picture I took with my Kodak EK4 instant camera on Kodak film. Kodaks brief foray into instant photography.

Unrelated to the dolls, here’s the garden shed that I built for Carol. The Housing Office on the Navy base that we lived on in the Naka ward in Yokohama had free wood that you could use for projects such as this and the fence you see to its right. The lumber was free and so was the paint – only one color was available so everything was painted the same color in the neighborhood!

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Stacked sky high!

While on a walkabout on the backstreets in our neighborhood we discovered this “wall” of crates just outside of a bar. The image was taken with my Canon F-1 on Kodachrome film – 1978.

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day! – Chris

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Happy SUNday! – On the road to Cannes

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If you can’t be home (U.S. Navy) I can’t think of a better place to be in the Summer of 1986… or any year for that matter!

Have a beautiful day and thanks for stopping by! – Chris

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Yashica 1958 & Yashica 2019

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The title is a bit misleading – well actually very misleading as Yashica (the original Japanese company) no longer exists. Yashica was acquired by Kyocera in 1983 and killed off by 2004. My good friend Paul Sokk and I have been on a quest to find some of Yashica’s old factory buildings and because Paul has a sharp eye for details, he was able to find Yashica’s factory in Shimosuwa (Nagano Prefecture) while conducting some research.  The first image below is a scan from a sales brochure that I have from 1958.

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Yashica’s main office building located on the factory campus in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1958.

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The same building as seen this April (2019). The company that currently operates from the building (Mutoh) has no ties to either Yashica or Kyocera. Photo courtesy of Paul Sokk.

Notice in the current picture that the building has had an addition added to its near side (enclosing a previous carport) and received a rather mundane paint job especially compared to what I’m sure was a very colorful design originally.

By the way, the current occupant, Mutoh Industries, Ltd., makes large format printing machines. More can be found here.

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Aerial view of the Yashica factory campus with the office building (viewed from behind) in the center.

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The Yashica gym and auditorium as seen today. Look at the aerial view in the image above this one to see the gym as it appeared in the late 1950s. Photo courtesy of Paul Sokk.

Many thanks to Paul Sokk and his wife Kathy for sharing photos from their most recent trip to Japan. Paul is the creator of THE site for anything about Yashica TLRs and early Yashica history the site can be found at www.yashicatlr.com

Thanks for stopping by! – Chris

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Happy SUNday! – Mets vs. Braves July 2009

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since Tim and I attended this baseball game at Turner Field in Atlanta. Our Mets were soundly defeated (as usual) but the best times were spent with Tim.

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Tim and I. Always true to the Orange and Blue! Let’s Go Mets!

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Tim with Jackie who was the nicest Braves fan we ever met! Actually, Jackie was a security guard at the game and she could be seen on TV at every Braves home game as she worked the area behind home plate.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day! – Chris

 

wordless wednesday

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(technically not “wordless”) ^.^

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Happy SUNday! – Disney Details

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At Disney’s Hollywood Studios – it’s the often overlooked details that make the overall experience worthwhile. Disney puts so much effort into making it feel authentic.

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Camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W170

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day! – Chris

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Happy SUNday! – Toys!

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The universal language of a discriminating customer – July 1979 – Yokohama, Japan

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Canon F-1 with Canon FD 80-200mm zoom lens on Kodak Kodachrome.

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day! – Chris

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