Near Trieste, Italy photographed by Anthony Stewart for National Geographic in 1956
Showing posts with label 1950's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950's. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2014
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Matching
An artist painting a picture of a statue of a Flemish artists in Bruges, Belgium, May 1955
National Geographic
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
Vintage Christmas Window Displays
Vintage Photos: Holiday Window Displays at Stores Around the World on Conde Nast Traveler here.
United Kingdom, 1907
Washington, D.C., 1930
New York City, 1939
New York City, 1947
New York City, 1950
Sophia Loren, Rome, 1953
Paris, 1965
Hamburg, 1980
Friday, December 7, 2012
Un Matrimonio Movimentato
La Domenica del Corriere
18 maggio 1958
UN MATRIMONIO MOVIMENTATO: Un giovane di parola. Alla vigilia delle nozze Francesco D., abitante in una borgata della Valle Imagna, scese a Bergamo per ritirare il braccialetto che doveva offrire alla fidanzata. Sulla via del ritorno fu investito da un camion. Raggiunse la propria casa. Il mattino dopo, abbondantemente bendato, il giovane, per non mancare alla parola data, si presentò in chiesa. E qui attese la propria sposa. Questa, vedendolo così conciato, svenne. Quando riprese i sensi, la cerimonia ebbe luogo. Il sacerdote benedisse le nozze e si compiacque con Francesco per la forza d'animo.
AN EVENTFUL WEDDING: A young man of his word. On the eve of the wedding of Francesco D., living in a township of the Imagna Valley, went to Italy to pick up the bracelet to be offered to his girlfriend. On the way back he was hit by a truck. He reached his home. The next morning, heavily bandaged, the youth, not to break his word, went to church. And here was waiting his own wife. This, seeing the state he was in, she fainted. When he recovered consciousness, the ceremony took place. The priest blessed the wedding and was pleased with Francesco's fortitude.
Please excuse the TERRIBLE translation, my Italian is still not very good! But I thought the story was too great not to share in English.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Ponte di Marisa
La Domenica del Corriere
2 February 1958
Un'insolita richiesta esaudita: Come in una fiaba. Nella letterina scritta alla Befana ai primi dello scorso gennaio, la piccola Marisa Leonzio, figlia di un agricoltore di Gorgo, frazione di Rosignano Solvay (Livorno), chiedeva che le regalassero un ponte, ma un ponte vero da gettare sul torrente Chioma che lei doveva attraversare ogni mattina per andare a scuola. Una casa cinematografica, venuta al corrente di questo, ha esaudito il suo desiderio e ha fatto costruire il ponte. E lei, gentile scolaretta, c'è passata per prima il giorno in cui, alla presenza delle autorità, lo si è inaugurato.
Life Magazine
3 February 1958
In Nibbiaia, Italy, Marisa Leonzio, 8, stood on a new bridge and waved as schoolmates clustered behind her. Marisa had to ford the stream every day on foot or oxcart to get to school. She wrote a fourth-grade composition about it which was printed in the papers. When he read it, an Italian film distributor had the bridge built, named Ponte di Marisa after her.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Le ballon rouge
Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon) is a French short-film directed by Albert Lamorisse in 1956, starring his son, Pascal Lamorisse. It tells the beautiful and sweet tale of a red balloon that has a life of its own, following a little boy around the streets of Paris.
In 1956 it won the Prix Louis Delluc, Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 1957; an Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Screenplay and the BAFTA Special Award.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Fido
La Domenica del Corriere
22 June 1958
La morte del cane Fido: E' morto Fido. Il cane, al quale era stata assegnata una medaglia d'oro ed eretto un monumento, è morto. La sua storia è quanto mai commovente. Nel 1943 perse il padrone, vittima di un bombardamento aereo. Per quattordici anni, tutte le sere, la brava bestiola si recò ad attendere la corriera che solitamente riportava il suo amico a Luco di Mugello e si fermava finchè non c'era più speranza di vederlo. Da qualche tempo, stanco e deperito, aveva sospeso le visite. L'altro giorno, presentendo la fine, volle recarsi all'ultimo appuntamento. Due ragazzi trovarono il suo corpo inerte sulla strada.
The death of the dog Fido: And Fido is dead. The dog, who had been awarded a gold medal and a monument, has died. His story is very touching. In 1943 he lost his master, the victim of an air raid. For fourteen years, every night, the good animal went to wait for the bus that usually brought his friend into Luco di Mugello and stopped until there was no more hope of seeing him. For some time, tired and emaciated, he had suspended visits. The other day, sensing the end, he wanted to go to the last appointment. Two boys found his lifeless body on the road.
Many dogs are named Fido, but the most famous of all was an Italian streetdog who was born in the Autumn of 1941 in Borgo San Lorenzo, Tuscany, Italy.
A street dog without a home, Fido was found by Carlo Soriani, injured and lying in a ditch. Soriani was a brick-kiln worker returning home, and not knowing where the dog came from, he brought the dog home and with his wife, they nursed the dog back to health. They adopted him and gave him the name 'Fido', a Latin name meaning 'faithful'. Extremely loyal to his master, Fido would follow Soriani to the bus stop as he left for work, and would wait patiently in the piazza until the bus would bring him back, and the pair would walk home together. This continued for two years, but on the 30th of December 1943, during World War II, Borgo San Lorenzo was attacked by allies, and many factories, including the one in which Soriani worked, were hit. Soriani tragically lost his life on this day. Fido, however, did not know what had happened to his master and went back to the bus stop that night, waiting for his return. Eventually he went back home, but for the next fourteen years, the ever faithful companion would go to the bus stop at the piazza, waiting for Soriani to come back. Many were enamoured and touched by his faithfulness, and his story was told by Italian magazines and on the newsreels. On the 9th of November 1957, the mayor of Borgo San Lorenzo awarded Fido a gold medal in front of Soriani's widow and many townspeople. The sculptor Salvatore Cipolla was commissioned by the town to sculpt the dog in honour of his love and faithfulness. The finished work was displayed in Piazza Dante. However, mere months after its placement, vandals destroyed the majolica statue, and Cipolla was commissioned to recreate his original work in bronze, still seen in Piazza Dante.
On the 9th of June 1958 Fido passed away, still waiting in vain for his friend to return from work. He was buried beside his master. Both La Domenica del Corriere and La Nazione dedicated their front pages to Fido and his heart-warming story of devotion.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Olympics
Italy has hosted three of the modern Olympic Games. In 1956 they held the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in 1960 the Summer Olympics in Rome, and in 2006 the Winter Olympics in Torino.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Il Calcio
Footballers playing by an ancient aqueduct in Rome, 1957
Anthony Stewart
National Geographic
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
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