NEGLUS
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posted on September 29, 2005 08:09:30 AM
Stopwhining I hope you are around - maybe you can help me with locating this scene? Thanks in advance..
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stopwhining
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posted on September 29, 2005 09:11:18 AM
this is Japanese-scenic view in a parking lot.
note the women wearing kimono and the hairstyle.
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 29, 2005 09:20:55 AM
thanks Stop - now I see her - didn't notice her at first. I guess I'd have to figure out a town to list - "scene in parking lot Japan" doesn't sound like it's got much market appeal. Thanks for the help.
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stopwhining
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posted on September 29, 2005 10:02:37 AM
if you can name the cars in the parking lot,you will get more bids.
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fenix03
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posted on September 29, 2005 10:56:29 AM
Toyotas of course 
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rhpepsi
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posted on September 29, 2005 11:07:20 AM
website for translation....
http://dict.pspinc.com/
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 29, 2005 11:32:36 AM
YIKES rhpepsi - I could never figure out how to type in the japanese characters to get a translation! And stop - I know about as much about vintage cars as I do about japanese characters....NADA. Maybe I will just type in " Great Vintage autos @ parking lot scene Japan C1920s" that's about the best I can figure out 
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buyhigh
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posted on September 29, 2005 04:28:47 PM
fenix03 Doubt the Japanese made passenger cars in those days. The majority of the people were too poor to buy them. Is that a train on the far left? Maybe it is a train station. The buildings in the background make it look like a possibility
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sparkz
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posted on September 29, 2005 06:37:16 PM
The car in the center has a good view of the front end, including the license plate. I don't know if the resolution is good enough to blow up that section and possibly identify the make and year model.
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sthoemke
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posted on September 29, 2005 07:38:59 PM
Car looks like a Ford Model A (or Model B).
This would date the photo from the late 1920s to 1930s.
Maybe this link can help:
http://www.chinaclassiccar.org/
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sparkz
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posted on September 29, 2005 07:51:28 PM
That's what I was thinking. Looks like something from the Al Capon era.
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 29, 2005 08:49:29 PM
I those are rickshaws on the right - a row of them.
The car is close to the Model T but not quite - here's the best enlargement I could get - thanks all for the help.
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posted on September 30, 2005 03:57:51 AM
neg - are you scanning it? If you scan it and choose "custom" scan it will let you set a higher resolution i.e. instead of 150 dpi you can choose 200, 300, 600 dpi. When you do that you can enlarge it much much bigger.
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 30, 2005 04:50:39 AM
Nah - I was being lazy and just enlarged my regular scan..I'll put up another.
BTW..Datsun was manufacturing cars as early as 1918 but I couldn't find an image of an early one.
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 30, 2005 05:14:55 AM
ok here it is - for sure not a Model T -
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 30, 2005 05:27:35 AM
And those are a row a rickshaws on the right - 
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glassgrl
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posted on September 30, 2005 05:45:01 AM
let's see the characters at the bottom of the front closer -
I wonder if these people could tell you what it says:
http://members.aol.com/writejapan/
or here:
http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quedisplay.html
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 30, 2005 06:05:00 AM
thanks GG - here is an enlargement of the characters - I am going to have to leave this project before as I have beaucoups items to ship today....and thanks for giving me the dpi tip - I even got a better scan of the stuff on the postcard in my other thread.
The more I look at this scene the more it seems like a train station - with the rickshaws at the ready and several large cars waiting - some of the cars in the background look more like limos.
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kiara
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posted on September 30, 2005 08:14:03 AM
I agree that it looks like a train station...... perhaps in San Francisco in the early 1900s as there were Japanese immigrants in a settlement called Japantown where there were also Chinese.
On the left of the photo it looks like a trolley car or street car. Further in it looks like a passenger bus with the little windows and also some freight trucks.
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stopwhining
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posted on September 30, 2005 08:26:23 AM
the japanese characters said(1) parking lot scenic view
(2) tsing Goin famous sight
This is not a train station,looks like a depot where rickshaws and cars park to pickup and dropoff customers.
Back when Japan opened to the west,there were a lot of east meets west scenes,notably in Yokahama .Those are foreign made cars.
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