I must apologize for my strange absence from Old Spirituals for the past few weeks. I’ve been traveling and work has been very busy!
I will soon return and get caught up, but in the meantime, I found this wonderful still to share with you from the movie City Lights, starring Charlie Chaplin!
1931 movie
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Hey Kimberly, this is actually from Chaplin’s Modern Times 🙂
I haven’t commented in quite awhile as work has been very busy too but I’m still always reading your posts when I catch up on daily emails usually around 3-5am
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Rob! So good to “see” you! I love your comments, please come and leave more whatever time you write them! (I’m a fine one to talk, having barely posted this month)
Yikes, I need to fix that error too 😳
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“Chaplin” is somewhat lost in the machinery that surrounds him. It brings to mind days of my youth.
My childhood home was within sight of an original, continuously functioning, 1900s machine shop. The boutique shop still had all its original belt-driven machines. The owner (a mechanical prodigy who won a car at the 1939 New Your Worlds Fair for the engine he designed and made himself) produced 1903 Oldsmobiles Model Curved Dash cars to customer orders. The car itself was basically a “buggy” with pneumatic tires, an engine, a padded bench seat and a “tiller” to steer the vehicle.
It was a celebration when a new car rolled out of the shop for its maiden drive. The owner and his wife, both vintage themselves, donned the driving apparel of 1903 and “putt-putted” around town with the one cylinder engine car that used a chain drive to turn the rear axles. It was a site to behold.
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I love the idea of put-putting around town!
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