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The New Arrivals were: Coypu rats, each of which is as big as a full-grown cat. A very rare Malayan monitor and "Lincoln Murphy" a new baby kangeroo. There are pictures of all three too.

Sharon Corbet Well done Sharon, what a name for the Kangaroo!! Don't like the sound of Coypu Rats!

Sharon Corbet I would say that Mason had great fun showing that photo to friends and family with its well centered if confusing headline!

Some interesting background to Thomas Holmes Mason (1877-1958) -

"... Thomas Mason's son, Thomas Holmes, was born in 1877. The grandfather of today's company chairman, Thomas H was a remarkable man. He worked alongside his father in the company until the latter's death in 1913, at which point the company was called Thomas H Mason. Stan explains how the company, under his grandfather's direction, made a "dramatic move with the technology of the time". "In the late 1890s he introduced photography to the business in the form of picture postcards. We went on to become the biggest producer of picture postcards in Ireland, right up until the 1940s, when the price of silver, a major component in developing solutions, rocketed because of the war." He takes a book from a glass case - Thomas H Mason's book The Islands of Ireland, published 1936. "My grandfather was interested in archaeology, ornithology, historical sites on the islands off Ireland, interests which brought him all over the country with his full-plate camera. He built up a huge and very fine collection of pictures which, unfortunately, were destroyed by fire in 1963. There's a vast collection of his picture postcards in the Civic Museum, however." ... ... "

From - www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/saga-of-a... (2003)

From the Irish Press on Tuesday, 4 July 1933...

TURF PLAN'S VALUE TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS ROTARY LECTURE That the Government's turf scheme should result in the discovery of articles of archaeological value, was claimed by Mr. T. H. Mason, M.R.I.A., in the course of a lecture on "Archaeology in Ireland", at the weekly meeting of the Dublin Rotary Club, in the Metropole Restaurant, yesterday [Monday, 3 July 1933]. Those engaged in the work of drainage of the bogs and of cutting turf should at once report to the National Museum, Dublin, or to the local Gardaí Síochána any structure or objects, however small, of artificial nature, which they discovered in the course of their work... He believed that the number of bronze age finds during the next ten years would far exceed the discoveries of the past 30 or 40 years...

And given current news, it's not just bogs hiding bronze age finds.

Same image, restored, or two independent frames?

@eric in SF The comments on both pictures say that the negative and positive are on glass plate, and the comment on the broken one mentions that the plate is broken. The frame is slightly different (the broken one is centered). I would thus assume different takes.

Ahahah ! Nos arrières grand-parents ne reculaient devant rien ! Placer une voiture en travers de la route pour avoir le village ET le profil de la voiture dans le champ, on voit qu'on a légèrement changé de centres d'intérêt :)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Old Photographs given new life., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Que de fierté... et de contraste avec les maisons paysannes en arrière plan.

This looks to be Brockton, judging by the similarity of the streetlamps shown in the two newspaper office photos. It appears to be the intersection of School Street and Main Street, with the triangular roof in the background on Main Street. A google maps satellite view of this intersection shows this corner building to still stand.

The movie poster looks like The Thief of Bagdad, 1940, With Sabu. Since that opened in New York in December 1940, this must be several months later in 1941. Can't identify the name of the local theatre it's playing at.

Go to maps.live.com/ and enter: "school street and main street, brockton, ma" Looks like the old building is gone, but a newer (and taller one) put in its place.

This is the corner of School and Main Streets in Brockton, Mass. I actually ate in Sylvia Sweet's Tea Room, which (though its name changed) was still active as a coffee shop at least into the Sixties. The buses from Boston (i.e., the Eastern Mass Street Railway buses from Ashmont Station at the end of what is now the Boston's Red Line) used to end their runs here. (They began their return trips from here, too.) The shot is looking north along Main Street. There was a big bank where the clock is, and a couple of blocks further along (just out of the frame) is where the Brockton Enterprise-Times was, where for many years my mother wrote articles for the social pages. If you follow rrsafety's advice and go to maps.live.com, go down to "street level." You'll see a bus rounding this very corner and this building. Diagonally across the street is a building with a rounded facade. That used to be Kresge's (precursor to today's K-Mart), and where I worked for two years in the Fifties in high school. By the way, one of the sons of George L. Wainwright (whose law office is above Sylvia Sweet's) is president of my class (1959) at Brockton High. He is himself a lawyer.

Other Flickr users beat me to it, but one of the readers of my Brainiac column in the Boston Globe wrote to say: "The Massachusetts Street Scene photo with Sylvia Sweets Tea Room was taken in Brockton, MA. This building is at the corner of School St. and Main Street, AKA The Bixby/Homebank Building." I've also learned that:

* Sylvia Sweet's "was located one block from the Brockton Police Station and often supplied food for prisoners." -- Tom Monaghan

* Sylvia Sweet's was on "the northeast corner of Main St. and School St, looking north on Main St. My mother was coincidentally named Sylvia, and she liked to get a dish of ice cream there while shopping." -- Joe Tomaselli

* Sylvia Sweet's "was there for a long time and had soda fountain and luncheon menu. The Dayos family from Brockton owned and operated it for many years." -- Fred Mullins

* Sylvia Sweet's "was owned and operated by a man whose last name was Dayos. I don't know his first name, but he lived with his wife and three (I believe) children on a street off West Elm Street on Brockton's west side. His son, Nicholas Dayos, was a friend of mine during our elementary, junior high, and high school days. He was killed a few years ago in a car crash. I am 75, and he was perhaps two years older. A guy who would give you the shirt off his back, as the saying goes, if you needed it." -- John J. Mullins [Any relation to Fred? -- ed.]

* Sylvia Sweet's "was a popular lunchroom, especially for people waiting for buses at the nearby bus stop." And: "The street floor was also the location of a popular department store, McCarthy's, and a jewelry store.The upper floors contained mainly law offices. In the 70s the building was being remodeled for housing when a fire destroyed it. The building was later rebuilt following its original design. It currently contains apartments on its upper floors and commercial space on the street floor." -- Robert Corey

* "In the early 1950s we used to take the bus from Hanson, shop in the wonderful Brockton downtown, and get a snack at Sylvia Sweet's before taking the bus back home. How the city has changed. No more bus, no more Sylvia Sweet's." -- Carolyn Galambos

* This same photo was "misidentified in the book, 'America: A Celebration,' by Martin Sandler." -- David Gain