Thursday 13 December 2012

Give Them a Magic Carpet for Christmas


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PLYMOUTH AUTOMOBILES LIFE 12/25/1950 INSIDE FRONT

 
Chrysler Corporation advertisement for Plymouth Automobiles: Norman Rockwell, in Life, 25 December 1950 (Gallery of Graphic Design)


LINCOLN AUTOMOBILES LIFE 12/16/1940 p. 6

  Ford Motor Company advertisement for Lincoln Automobiles: Life, 16 December 1940 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
PLYMOUTH AUTOMOBILES LIFE 12/24/1951

Chrysler Corporation advertisement for Plymouth Automobiles: Norman Rockwell, in Life, 24 December 1951 (Gallery of Graphic Design)




Robotic arms work on vehicles as they move along the production line at the Ford India Pvt. Maraimalai Nagar factory in Chengalpattu, India: photo by Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg, 17 April 2012

Employees at the Fiat SpA and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. factory work on vehicles in Changsha, China. Fiat, with two failed partnerships in China, returned to manufacturing cars in the world's largest vehicle market: photo by Nelson Ching/Bloomberg, 28 June 2012
 
 



An employee walks past new cars at Ford's joint venture in Chongqing, China: photo by Stringer/Reuters, 12 October 2010





Traffic plods through heavy smog in Beijing. China will start assessing the "social risk" of major projects, its environmental protection minister said, after anti-pollution protests forced a series of industrial ventures to be cancelled: photo by Wang Zhao/AFP. 21 November 2012
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7 comments:

  1. Susan Kay Anderson13 December 2012 at 09:23

    There's Christmas. All of it. All my friends driving, alone.

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  2. TC13 December 2012 at 10:31

    The aggravation, the cold fog, the lost tempers, the unreceived presents, the damp Yule log, the rancid eggnog and the parked-car make out scenes, always complicated by the stick shift...

    (They probably don't have any of the above in India or China.)

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  3. Susan Kay Anderson13 December 2012 at 10:50

    "parked-car make out scenes"

    Christmas of frustration
    stuffed into the stuff
    of longing
    reindeer
    delicious drinks
    so far away
    the snow the Christmas
    the candles of Christmas
    burn burn burn
    with the fuel of dreaming
    this dream these scenes
    where I live the whole year long.

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  4. TC13 December 2012 at 10:53

    Well, perhaps just a bit of the cold fog, down where the road goes by the gas works, in the old quarter of Ulan Bator.

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  5. vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)14 December 2012 at 04:29

    Let them have their Plymouth--there are other more vocal wishes Santa has to attend to.

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  6. tpw14 December 2012 at 11:20

    I wish Pop would get me a new Plymouth---ever since the garbage collectors totaled my '89 Civic, I've been carless. But I can barely drive, so it's probably just as well.

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  7. TC15 December 2012 at 11:41

    Terry,

    Well, now that I can no longer walk without misery, now that the buses are always late or not running, now that it's always raining and I can't get beyond the falling-down trees in raccoon world, I'd almost be tempted to wish I had a car were my entire existence not dominated by the aftermath of having been run over by one.

    A Jetta it was. Though a Plymouth would have been better. No one would let a Plymouth loose on this raceway.

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