Engineer

It's always  easy to guess

which one is the engineer...

 

 

Last walk...

 

…. before sailing away.

 

Circa 1953

Let's be romantic !

On the back:

 

"Souvenir from a friend that thinks a lot about you ,

Marcel Louis

 

 

 

"The ocean will cover the sound of our kisses "

Have a nice week-end !

Celebrating

Around 1950

(Probably in Oran , Algeria)

I'm surprised by the strange hats.

But I know they were all in the navy.

Diving

 

My grand-father was one of the first diving men in french navy.

It was between 1920 and 1925.

I have no pictures of him from that time ,

but when I wanted to write his story

  I searched and found those postcards in flea markets.

 

 

Seeing the diving suit makes me think that

 those guys were very courageous , or fool..

Putting on the diving suit

Navy -Diving school

Faces from the past

 

1922/1923, Saïgon

Artists



Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Iles de Lérins

Dominique Trachel (1830-1897)
Baie des Anges

Victor Sabatier (1823-1891)
Nice, Port de Carras

César Mascarelly (1836-1905)
Nice

Charles Martin-Sauvaigo (1881-1970)
Nice

Jacques Guiaud(1811-1876)
Nice, Rauba Capéu

Ambroise-Louis Garneray (1783-1857)
Fight in Mediterranean Sea

Alexandre Scipion Gamba de Preydour (1846-1931)
Nice

Emmanuel Costa (1833-1921)
Nice, Port de Carras

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Nice Rauba Capéu in moonlight

Title : Peintres paysagistes de la Côte d'Azur au XIXème siècle
Author : Alex Benvenuto
Publisher : Editions Serrre
Year : 2009

Funny game

- Toulon, 1921-

 

 

 

1) Find a mast

2) Coat it with black soap

3) Hang some good things (such as wine ) on the top

4) Ask for a volunteer to climb

A century

Title : 1860-1960, Nice 100 ans
Authors : Jean-Paul Potron , Paul Isoart , Preface de J.M.G. Le Clezio
Publisher : Editions Gilletta
Year : 1997

Boys , boys , boys

Cannes, circa 1922

Diving into archives

- Monaco -

 

- Antibes -

- Cannes -

- Menton -

- Saint-Tropez -

- Au loin, le massif de l'Esterel -



- Saint-Raphaël -

 -Menton -

- Menton -

- Nice -


 

Title : Archives de la Côte d'Azur
Author : Many
Editor : Editions Michèle Trinckvel
Year : 1994

Portrait with ship