been chilling with water colors and prismacolor pencils. Working slowly through two color and cut books of european houses for Ornria games and diorama photo stories. Here is a bakery half done, you can see how the left fascade looks with pencil over the watercolor. The right fascade or rear of the house has only the raw watercolor.
primitive film, exhibitions, panoramas, and the like. Here is the script of a show about Teddy and San Juan. Sadly the original images are lost, but It seems to have been a form of candle-lantern type slide show with some kind of film component provided by the Great Stephen Crane of Red Badge of Courage fame.
Bill McMasters (Mr. BMC) had planned to produce all his playsets focused on American History, his untimely death after the company weathered the Mexican factory fire and a Chinese takeover, sadly cutailed his great project, but not before he rolled out his San Juan Hill set, which I bought in the 90s for 20 bucks.
The first big street food hit in america was boiled peanuts in the civil war, but by the 1890s peanuts and popcorn took a back seat to the hot tamale man...
