Today's images are so completely ordinary, so thoroughly average. It's like adult contemporary radio!
It's "sometime in the 1970s", go ahead and give it your best guess. There aren't many clues. And it doesn't really matter anyway, because both scenes were largely unchanged for several decades. You've got the Mark Twain, a plucky little Canoe (seen almost straight-on). Depending on the date, the Canoe is either an Indian War Canoe, or a Davy Crockett Explorer Canoe (post-May 19, 1971).
Come on, Mark Twain, you're lagging! That Canoe is making a laughing stock of you! The only thing that can possibly rehabilitate your reputation is to run over the Canoe at top speed. Hard facts! (Meanwhile, it does sort of look like an "Indian" is guiding the Canoe).
The CM in the Canoe looks like he's wearing a red shirt. So this might be an Indian War Canoe(?), which, by your reckoning, would make it pre May 19,1971.
ReplyDeleteOther than being "completely ordinary" and "thoroughly average", there is absolutely nothing wrong with this photo. If this had been posted in June, 2006 we would have ooh-ed and ahh-ed over the composition, the clarity, and the color. Oh well, I guess we've become jaded and persnickety. I blame the Covid years... and pickled pigs' feet. Just because.
Yes, in the second "completely ordinary" and "thoroughly average" photo, it looks like an 'Indian' guide is up front.
I don't see any AEDs in these photos. There's a black speck in the second photo but I don't think it's a duck, just a speck. Maybe they were gathered up for refurbishment; replace their battery packs and make sure their explosives are dry and intact. (I think I changed tenses midstream, there.)
Thanks for the "completely ordinary" and "thoroughly average" Snoozles, Major. They're actually pretty nice photos.
I can see why decades later with the advance of ride systems/lazers/loop-de-loops/the colors pink and purple/Gold Leafing/Yellow wrought iron/etc. that people today might find this boring. I love boring. I live for boring. Boring is not boring. I don't understand boring, and I have never been bored my entire life. Ever. Doing nothing is something: it is doing nothing, so it is a something: it's nothing. I don't need a french fried plastic dragon flying out of the mill, or 3D things thrust at me, or the inability to walk to Bear Country due to ropes and crowd control. I will take boring. Boring every time. Boring is peaceful and serene. Not boring to me. I can hear the Mark Twain in my memory looking at these photos, and the splash splash of canoe oars. When it wasn't crowded, you could hear so many things...even the AAED's quacking in the distance, or the screams on the Matterhorn in another land. Thanks Major, and Happy Snoozles! (tm)
ReplyDeleteWhat. Bu. Said.
ReplyDeleteOne possible date marker, I can’t locate the floating keg that marks the island side of the river channel (hat tip to KS). Was this guide to navigation installed at some later date, or was it always there and I just can’t see it in these photos?
Anyhow, for no good reasons, I’m leaning toward an earlier date rather than later.
I can hear the canoe pilot shouting “Ramming Speed!!”
JG
I’’m with Bu - doing nothing is inherently exciting, if you just take the time - or something like illness (or a pandemic) forces you to take the time - to slow down and look. I have hiked miles into the back-country just for the privilege of being in a place where I can look at nothing. And I’m really enjoying looking at nothing right now. Snoozes, indeed…
ReplyDeleteJG, does he sound like James Mason?
Thanks JG. My initial reaction is that the keg you mention is blocked by the canoe in the second picture and, of course, is not even in the field of view of the first. If costumes changed at the time of the renaming of the canoes, than it is definitely pre-May 19, 1971. The 70s (70-76 anyway) were a "snoozy" period which made this area timeless. And I wouldn't mind it returning to this status if only... A tip of the MT cap to Capt. Mike too. KS
ReplyDeleteThat Old Mill looks like it's been there forever. But we know it's gone for a big stage. The front area of TSI was so natural looking back then. Thanks, Major.
ReplyDeleteBu, you said it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteIn the first shot, the Mark Twain slightly resembles a white angler fish.
Thanks, Major, for the nice, relaxing day.