Ghost in the Window

Falstaff · Sep 15, 2009, 04:34 AM

charm_quark · Sep 15, 2009, 07:54 PM

, didn't see this one before!

skychimp · Sep 17, 2009, 07:55 AM

Doesnt this picture comes with an history?

Falstaff · Sep 17, 2009, 02:10 PM

in the window of a house someone had lined up melted glass bottles, rusted iron objects and a few faded old images on glass plates, this one was still visible. As I walked by I watched the eyes follow me and I stopped and took several frames through the glass of the window. i imagine, like many things in windows of the old painted ladies, it represents what the new owners found in the basement, etc.
Most of the area around Nob Hill was consumed by fire either started by the city to create fire breaks or destroyed in the second temor, but buildings burned. A sort reverence for the past, or past owners of the old houses. In the basements, old boxes and old steamer trunks of niches and corners of what remains of old San Francisco remains the history of this place, like an echo from a hundred years ago, the lives, the colour and the character of a bygone time.
On friday I will walk down the streets and try to capture what remains, but very little is left now.
After 1906, much of what remained of San Francisco has slowly been consumed by time or rebuilt or refashioned into the San Francisco we see now.
I still fancy the old glass plates and bits of Old San Francisco and I will try to post more .

rachanya · Sep 17, 2009, 06:00 PM

hello

Falstaff · Sep 17, 2009, 11:43 PM

Hello

Tyrsonswood · Sep 18, 2009, 12:08 AM

Was that the ghost Falstaff?

j/k

interesting history lesson there.

Falstaff · Sep 18, 2009, 12:53 AM

An image in the window of house in old San 6rancisco

Sep 15, 2009, 04:34 AM	#1
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Ghost in the Window __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Sep 15, 2009, 07:54 PM	#2
charm_quark incognito Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: BoTsWaNa Posts: 2,437 Rep Power: 140	Re: Ghost in the Window , didn't see this one before! __________________ Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Sep 17, 2009, 07:55 AM	#3
skychimp DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 28 Rep Power: 0	Re : Ghost in the Window Doesnt this picture comes with an history?

Sep 17, 2009, 02:10 PM	Thread Starter #4
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Re: Ghost in the Window in the window of a house someone had lined up melted glass bottles, rusted iron objects and a few faded old images on glass plates, this one was still visible. As I walked by I watched the eyes follow me and I stopped and took several frames through the glass of the window. i imagine, like many things in windows of the old painted ladies, it represents what the new owners found in the basement, etc. Most of the area around Nob Hill was consumed by fire either started by the city to create fire breaks or destroyed in the second temor, but buildings burned. A sort reverence for the past, or past owners of the old houses. In the basements, old boxes and old steamer trunks of niches and corners of what remains of old San Francisco remains the history of this place, like an echo from a hundred years ago, the lives, the colour and the character of a bygone time. On friday I will walk down the streets and try to capture what remains, but very little is left now. After 1906, much of what remained of San Francisco has slowly been consumed by time or rebuilt or refashioned into the San Francisco we see now. I still fancy the old glass plates and bits of Old San Francisco and I will try to post more . __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Sep 17, 2009, 06:00 PM	#5
rachanya DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Re: Ghost in the Window hello

Sep 17, 2009, 11:43 PM	Thread Starter #6
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Re: Ghost in the Window Hello __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Sep 18, 2009, 12:53 AM	Thread Starter #8
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Re: Ghost in the Window An image in the window of house in old San 6rancisco __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."