Monday 31 October 2011
Today's Bacchi...
The french people visiting this Blog will recognize the Amora mustard glass... I mean... who in france hasn't drunk from these glasses yet? Anyhow, they remind me of Home and are perfect in size for a double espresso... they do the job (i suppose see-through cups of coffee are in the uprise... Coffee gets more and more marketed like wine... the retina as a taste organ).
A box from 1985 (S.T.E.M.A.C.)
A bit different than the other 2 i just posted, a thinner carton, a different folding pattern...
From post in the (email) Box...
... to Box in the (Blog) post.
Not much to comment here... just that Mr. Frank Kletschkus answered to my call of the 19th of September and sent me lush pictures of his Box... and i thank him deeply for providing them to me.
Being very active at the moment on this Blog, i know and i really appreciate these precious minutes that you spent getting the box, taking the camera from the coffer, putting the box in the right light, take the pictures (with the standards which are yours), loading them up on the computer and sending them on to my email address...
My role was just to upload them on this Blog... easy job.
All my respect and thanks for taking the time!
And now just sit back and contemplate Mr. Kletschkus's pictures:
Not much to comment here... just that Mr. Frank Kletschkus answered to my call of the 19th of September and sent me lush pictures of his Box... and i thank him deeply for providing them to me.
Being very active at the moment on this Blog, i know and i really appreciate these precious minutes that you spent getting the box, taking the camera from the coffer, putting the box in the right light, take the pictures (with the standards which are yours), loading them up on the computer and sending them on to my email address...
My role was just to upload them on this Blog... easy job.
All my respect and thanks for taking the time!
And now just sit back and contemplate Mr. Kletschkus's pictures:
Thursday 27 October 2011
Favette Triestine... Delicious!
Looking out of the terrace... in the far... is it mist??? Don't tell me it's SNOW!!!
I'm sitting in my warm haven with a Bacchi in the left hand... and delicious Favette Triestine in my right one:
The best way to fight the idea of this long overdue winter.
Thank you Lucio for this speciality!
I'm sitting in my warm haven with a Bacchi in the left hand... and delicious Favette Triestine in my right one:
The best way to fight the idea of this long overdue winter.
Thank you Lucio for this speciality!
Dans la famille Bikinette, je veux...
"Rapida Express"
It's all in the name.
A lightning crossing over the Mole Antoniellana of Turin! (Mille Grazie Peter!!!)
SensaZZZZZZZZZZZZZZionale!!!!!!
A machine that personally reminds me of Lucio's made-in-France "La Bikinette"... one could say the Shroud of the Bikinette (the first person who post a comment that he understood this joke gets 5 points from me).
The italian "Rapida Express":
The valve system "Vapore - Chiuso - Acqua" was breveted in 1928 (accepted in 1930)!
It's all in the name.
A lightning crossing over the Mole Antoniellana of Turin! (Mille Grazie Peter!!!)
SensaZZZZZZZZZZZZZZionale!!!!!!
A machine that personally reminds me of Lucio's made-in-France "La Bikinette"... one could say the Shroud of the Bikinette (the first person who post a comment that he understood this joke gets 5 points from me).
The italian "Rapida Express":
The french "La Bikinette":
The valve system "Vapore - Chiuso - Acqua" was breveted in 1928 (accepted in 1930)!
A machine that borrowed the American Streamline language (for example the 3 speed lines) to give to this fantastic stovetop coffee machine the illusion of movement... I'm loving it!
If i'm not mistaken... 1928... that is a whole 18 years BEFORE Mr. Robbiati's patent for the Flathead machine!!!!!
... because i must leave you today ...
From 1933 until 1938, Mr. Stern had 2 department stores in 2 towns in what is now the Czech Republic, Děčín & Litoměřice.
He had more than 30 employees and became the biggest tax payer in Děčín at that time.
Here his entry in the register of the town (number 918):
In 1938... his life changed... like million of others.
The Munich Agreement allowed the annexation of Czekoslovakia's Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
Mr. Stern who was of Jewish confession, left Litoměřice on the Day the agreement was signed - the 29th of September 1938, and fled to Prag.
On the last picture... you might notice something.
What happened with his business?
He had more than 30 employees and became the biggest tax payer in Děčín at that time.
Here his entry in the register of the town (number 918):
The Munich Agreement allowed the annexation of Czekoslovakia's Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
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Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-R69173
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All he achieved at his young age of 31... he had to leave behind him.
The peaceful town of Litoměřice ( here on a picture from the 1920's):
became this, nearly over night:
Pictures date 12th of October 1938... not even 2 weeks after Mr. Stern left!
On the last picture... you might notice something.
This was Desider Stern's shop, now covered with Nazi Swastikas.
And here a picture taken at the end of the month of October:
(The name Stern replaced by another word my czech colleagues couldn't decipher)
What happened with his business?
It got liquidated by a Nazi lieutenant in 1944 (number 178).
I really thank the German Federal Archives as well as the people who helped me in Děčín & Litoměřice. It has been a pleasure to be in contact with such nice and helpful people.
At the time of my research in the Czech Republic, i was listening a lot to the Comedian Harmonists and their huge repertoire. Some time later, i was privileged to go to a concert of Mr. Max Raabe and his Palast Orchestra in Vienna's Konzerthaus.
The last song of this concert was first sung by the Comedian Harmonists in 1932 and is called "Auf Wiederseh'n, My Dear". The pictures i posted today were the ones that came to my mind when the first notes were played...
The Comedian Harmonists:
Max Raabe:
Give me the last parting kiss,
because I must leave you today,
and I say goodbye, Farewell.
We've loved so passionately
and our happiness was never misty,
therefore I tell you goodbye,
goodbye, goodbye.
Whether you want to be faithful to me,
Thou shalt not tell me.
Someone who really loves,
doesn't make such stupid questions.
Give me the last parting kiss,
because I must leave you today,
I'm looking forward to meet again, goodbye.
We have found ourselves,
Loved and kissed passionately.
We spent nice hours together,
which we can not forget.
A fairy tale comes to an end,
Therefore give me your little hands.
because I must leave you today,
and I say goodbye, Farewell.
We've loved so passionately
and our happiness was never misty,
therefore I tell you goodbye,
goodbye, goodbye.
Whether you want to be faithful to me,
Thou shalt not tell me.
Someone who really loves,
doesn't make such stupid questions.
Give me the last parting kiss,
because I must leave you today,
I'm looking forward to meet again, goodbye.
We have found ourselves,
Loved and kissed passionately.
We spent nice hours together,
which we can not forget.
A fairy tale comes to an end,
Therefore give me your little hands.
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