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Someone is offering a Victrola I-70 in Witchita. I've never seen one like this before.

Only asking $125...

http://wichita.craigslist.org/atq/4847873415.html

Cliff

Hmmm... "Pennsylvania Dutch" meets "Spanish Alhambra".... very interesting...

CDBPDX wrote:Someone is offering a Victrola I-70 in Witchita. I've never seen one like this before.

Only asking $125...

http://wichita.craigslist.org/atq/4847873415.html

Cliff

And, HOPEFULLY, We will never see another one...

De Soto Frank wrote:Hmmm... "Pennsylvania Dutch" meets "Spanish Alhambra".... very interesting...

Nah, that's way too delicate for the dutchies. No self-respecting heeva hava would let that thing into his house!

For a desecration, that is pretty well done.

Henry wrote:

De Soto Frank wrote:Hmmm... "Pennsylvania Dutch" meets "Spanish Alhambra".... very interesting...

Nah, that's way too delicate for the dutchies. No self-respecting heeva hava would let that thing into his house!

Henry,

Your colloquialism that I bolded & italicised intrigues me...

I am assuming it is a PA Dutch term, but up here in the da Nordern Ant'racite Fields, the term I've heard is "heeba-habba", usually referring to one of middle-Eastern origins (Lebanese, Syrian are the predominant up here), and it's not usually offered in a complimentary tone...

Any thoughts ?

Frank

(PS: it vas the flowers and the sabot dot made me t'ink "Dutch" ... )

My dialect-speaking friends down here in Lechau Kaundi tell me it refers to the farmhand who cleans up the excrement; less politely, a "s**t-kicker."

Well, don't blame me, you had to ask!

"Well, don't blame me, you had to ask! "


Oh, I did... I did !


I will have to poll some born & breds around here, with this new-found knowledge.

De Soto Frank wrote:

Henry wrote:

De Soto Frank wrote:Hmmm... "Pennsylvania Dutch" meets "Spanish Alhambra".... very interesting...

Nah, that's way too delicate for the dutchies. No self-respecting heeva hava would let that thing into his house!

Henry,

Your colloquialism that I bolded & italicised intrigues me...

I am assuming it is a PA Dutch term, but up here in the da Nordern Ant'racite Fields, the term I've heard is "heeba-habba", usually referring to one of middle-Eastern origins (Lebanese, Syrian are the predominant up here), and it's not usually offered in a complimentary tone...

Any thoughts ?

Frank

(PS: it vas the flowers and the sabot dot made me t'ink "Dutch" ... )

i'm dutch and this isn't dutch folk art dutch folk art uses dark backgrounds like dark green dark red ocre
it could be 2 things it could be german bavarian folk art or it could be scandinavian denmark and sweden spring to mind
there's also another reason why this isnt dutch
in the 1920s-30s dutch folk art was already dying the high time was 1790-1880
in the 1930s most farms had furniture that came from factories rather than the D.I.Y. furniture of the past also it was going out of fashion

in germany there was a real folk art revival after world war 1 witch came to a real hype after hitler came to power after the war 1950s to 70s there was another revival but mainly for the tourist trade scandinavian folk art has never been out of fashion in these countries if you visit the swedish countryside you will still find people making it just for the fun of it and not for trade what else to do on those long swedish winter nights
you decide


tino

Tino,

Thank you for all the wonderful examples of the various folk-art styles from NW Europe.


I hope my comments did not offend you with regard to the "Dutch" comments.

Here in Eastern Pennsylvania, there settled in the 17th & 18th Centuries, German religious sects, primarily the Amish.

They have been known affectionately ( or not so much ) as the "Pennsylvania Dutch", very likely an "English" corruption of "Deutsch".


The third image in your post, with the yellow back-ground, most-resembles the art-work that most Americans recognize as "Pennsylvania Dutch"...


Henry & I were indulging in some "vaudeville" style clowning-about regarding the German-American culture here in Eastern Pennsylvania.





Best regards,

De Soto Frank