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a 2016 Christmas layout scene - Hope that it's obvious that it's a Halloween scene. Mostly, but not entirely, Homies.
I have a zillion scenes with figures that I could share. I just picked this scene for no particular reason.
- walt
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Walt, That is a fun idea, having Halloween revelers out walking their neighborhood, as a scene on a layout! Really clever! Something I had never seen previously on anybody's layout. Our layouts become reminders of so many things from our enjoyable youth that your modeling there has reminded me of how much fun it was to go door-to-door in our little suburb (seen here), back when I was a boy in the 50's. Thanks for rekindling those memories!
FrankM
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Frank,
First off, thanks. That image you included looks a lot like a street one over from my uncle's in Duquesne.
- walt
walt rapp posted:Frank,
First off, thanks. That image you included looks a lot like a street one over from my uncle's in Duquesne.
- walt
Duquesne Place? The photo is of the 100 block on Miller Avenue.
One over is either Harden Ave. or, in the other direction, toward Kennywood, is Herman Ave.
. FrankM
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Moonson posted:
Frank, is that O Scale or real?
Arnold D. Cribari posted:Moonson posted:Frank, is that O Scale or real?
That's part of my childhood hometown neighborhood, in real life.
FrankM
Moonson posted:That's part of my childhood hometown neighborhood, in real life.
FrankM
Those hometown neighborhoods from long ago always remain special.
MELGAR
Moonson posted:
That street looks familiar. It looks alot like the streets in Port Vue, where I grew up.
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Little people on the move:
The infamous Lionel cop and hobo cars. Little kids love these little people
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Mark Diff posted:Moonson posted:That street looks familiar. It looks alot like the streets in Port Vue, where I grew up.
Mark: I too grew up in Port Vue!!!!! I lived there from 1955 to when I got married in 1974. Sorry that I don't recognize 'DIFF'.
- walt
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Moonson posted:
Like most of your photographs, Frank, these show “a slice of life.” That is an expression that Bruce Manson used in the segment about his mainly American Flyer layout in the Pennsylvania Suite video of the McComas & Tuoy 6 video set.
I bet some of our longstanding Forum friends remember Bruce. He described his red light district on his layout as showing a slice of life.
Yours, Frank, is rated GP. Bruce’s would be rated R. LOL
Arnold
It's super hearing from both of you, Lee and Arnold. Thank you! I am so glad you like my modeling.
FrankM
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It's his regular spot.
Moonson posted:It's his regular spot.
Frank, you need a guy with his wife covering his eyes!
BobbyD posted:Walt, I think your layout builds always include many scenes we don't get to see.
yeah, i create new scenes every year since the layout is built from scratch, and changes, each year. Sometimes I think I'm being repetitive so I don't show things that I consider too similar to previous times. maybe that's a bad assumption on my part.
The other thing too is that I only have so many pictures of that particular year's layout to share with Scott's thread each Friday so I only post one each week to make them last as long as I can. Below is an example: as you can see it's basically identical to the images shown above from 2014 and 2016 so I may have not used it.
thanks for noticing!
- walt
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MELGAR posted:Moonson posted:That's part of my childhood hometown neighborhood, in real life.
FrankM
Those hometown neighborhoods from long ago always remain special.
MELGAR
Yes, MELGAR, and those hometown neighborhoods don't even have to remain unchanged, since the best parts of them have been taken with us in our hearts. Concerning my own neighborhood, Duquesne Place, Pennsylvania has, literally, remained rock-solid, since all of the houses were made of good-old Pennsylvania brick. I have not noticed, when making the occasional nostalgic visit, a single deterioration in the old neighborhood, after all these 70+ years. Of course, the neighbors themselves have changed, but I remember every single one of them from my youth and continue to cherish their place in my heart.
The residents themselves were rock-solid, too, possessed as they were, of authentic morality, excellent work ethics, pride-of-place and of self, and just an all 'round friendliness that welcomed everybody around them, including me, despite my occasional cutting-thru yards, from time to time, in search of balls. I came to know every single one of them, before I left for college out of state.
My first formal job, at 16, after having been "paperboy" for the "Daily News" and "Pittsburgh Press" in that neighborhood since I was twelve, was given to me by a neighbor two doors away (third house on the right) from my house.
She hired me as "Salad boy" in this Kennywood cafeteria. I loved that job and her. (Note/credit: This photo may have been taken by Andy Hummell.)
FrankM.
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Moonson posted:MELGAR posted:Moonson posted:That's part of my childhood hometown neighborhood, in real life.
FrankM
Those hometown neighborhoods from long ago always remain special.
MELGAR
Yes, MELGAR, and those hometown neighborhoods don't even have to remain unchanged, since the best parts of them have been taken with us in our hearts. Concerning my own neighborhood, Duquesne Place, Pennsylvania has, literally, remained rock-solid...
The residents themselves were rock-solid, too, possessed as they were, of authentic morality, excellent work ethics, pride-of-place and of self, and just an all 'round friendliness that welcomed everybody around them, including me, despite my occasional cutting-thru yards, from time to time, in search of balls. I came to know every single one of them, before I left for college out of state...
FrankM.
Oh so true, Moonson. I remember it well.
MELGAR
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MELGAR posted:
I’ve got a little hobo that looks a lot like yours, except yours has better colors. Melgar, did you paint your little guy? If so, you did a great job painting him. Here’s my little guy:
On 2nd thought, I like the colors of my guy too (he came that way). It’s a close call, but I still like your little guy better.
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Arnold,
Almost all my little people are from the City of Arttista, in which the citizens are pre-painted. So far, we have photographed only a small part of the hobo population...
MELGAR