Category: Nostalgia

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”– Thoreau

UT Austin Art School 1941
UT Austin Art School 1941

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” — Pablo Picasso

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 “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” — Oscar Wilde

Just Past Nine

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The Climax Molybdenum Company donated the land for a high altitude observatory in Climax, Colorado, where University of Colorado weather observers encountered Arctic-like blizzards.

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The Wheels On The Bus

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Did you spend hours on a school bus each dreadful morning and liberated afternoon with friendly-faced drivers such as these? Or were your drivers a little touched in the head? Did your buddies shoot spitballs at the back of said heads?

Recognize these faces? Surely they wouldn’t cause any trouble.

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No rebellious nature in these well-behaved young men.

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The 1941 students appear much more welcoming. All aboard!

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Oops! Caught them mid-embrace!

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Buses allowed downtime to chill with your pals.

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Perhaps you were on a sports team and took a chartered bus. I can’t say as I ever did that.

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And after all these years, they keep rolling.

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