BEST BEAUTY EQUIPMENT

oh, yes, there's a thousand quinquagintillion in the comments
these are also all sooc because i don't think i can edit them without it looking lame, ya know. my mom just found a book on how to do Reiki on pets. the pictures were so cute!
This reminds of the Simpsons episode where Agent Muller and Skully [from the X files!] came onto the show because they were investigating what they thought was an alien. It was actually Mr. Burns on drugs and he glowed. But I remember that episode used to scare me. And the music too! It was like, creepy. I can't believe I'm that much of a dork.
OH yesterday, funniest thing ever, I was telling my mom
"Do you have friends that when you're telling a story and take a breath they tell their own story?"
She nods her head yes. Then she shakes her head no and goes
"No, those aren't called friends. They're called......relatives."
I cracked up cuz that was actually funny :D

The moment you've all been waiting for: story time.
Oh my Jesus. Today in my Intro to Graphic Arts class, we were working in Illustrator and making stickers and printing it in the print shop. We have this bad ass nice school so we have all new equipment. It's fucking awesome in there. So, we ganged all of our files and nested it or whatever they say, and we went into the print shop which is like...a room away but there's a pathway in the middle of the classroom so it's awesome. I go in there with Sonia because we put our file on the same flash drive and we hang out in there and watch the process of nesting and printing. THEN! M walks into the classroom. I look up because, well, he's as beautiful as a golden sunshine rising in the Italian lowlands. BAHAHA! Anyways, I watch him walk in and he's like asking everyone kind of but he totes looked at me when he asked "Hey, where's the flashdrive?!" Then I kinda looked in his direction and then looked at the table to where the USB was and then looked back at him but he had found it already and he totally reached in front of me and I got to smell how wonderful he smells. He smells like, ahh just wonderful. I don't remember it right now but if you gave me like 2 smells I could sniff out his. So he goes back to the normal room where we were working and then he puts his on the flashdrive then comes back into the room where Sonia and me were at. Then we stand around the computer while the other kids who knew how to work the program were doing stuff with the stickers and sending them to the printer. Sonia found some tape and kept messing with it and M was standing right next to her. You know how the IDs have a little plastic part in the back? Well, this kid sitting in front of us had his on the middle of his neck and it was like right in our faces. Sonia ripped a little piece of tape off and stuck it to that plastic part. Then M saw what she did and took it off and said "No." with this super serious face. Then he starts laughing and he's like "nahh I'm playing." Then he suggested to her that she should rip a piece off and write "I'm gay" on the piece of tape and stick it on his back. She tore off a piece of tape and gave it to him and he found a marker and wrote, instead "I'm Black" on the piece of tape. Don't worry, the kid they stuck it on is African American. So I was like laughing and pointing and laughing at it. Funniest part: My teacher looked at the tape on the back and she just laughed. That was so awesome. So the kid walks off proudly with his new sticker and then M also walks away with him to go watch the stickers print. OH! I forgot, this also happened before we put the tape on the kid.
Kid on the computer: Hey, Adriana!
Adriana: Yeah?
Kid: What's your file named?
Adriana: Adriana
M: Hah! *mimicks me* Adriana!
Adriana: *giggles lightly and takes all of her might not say OMFG HE JUST MADE EYE CONTACT WITH ME AND TALKED TO ME AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!*
The way he said it, he was kinda making fun of me because the name was obvious. But I still cannot believe that he talked to me.
So then back to the kid we put the tape on went to go watch the stickers being printed and then left the chair that was infront of the computer open. So duhh I sat down. Sonia went into the next room because she wanted to talk to our friends in there and she was cool with the teacher. Hah his name is Mr. Walker and everyone says it with a country accent like "mistaa walka." It's funny. So while she was over there, I was sitting in the chair. And then guess who wanders back over to the computer area and gets behind while I'm in the chair? YEAH, IT WAS him. Lol so it's all like awkward and scary for me because the most beautiful man in all of the land [not really true] was behind me and probably leaning on my chair. I had my phone in my hand and I was texting Jennifer and she hadn't texted back so to look cool I resent a message. Hopefully he didn't read it because it was a dorky one. Haha. I wish I had his number

Full-page ad for Sternberg, Hall & Co. that appeared on page 103 of the 1869-1870 Chenango County, N.Y. Business Directory. The ad notes "Designing and Drafting!" services in a stylish Old English font. Beneath "Designing and Drafting!" the ad states, "NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED. Persons wishing anything in our line are invited to give us a call and examine our stock, and learn that we are determined not to be undersold by any other establishment."

W.H. Sternberg (1832 - 1906) grew up working in his father's (Nicholas Sternberg) lumber planing mill (saw mill), although it was a much smaller mill than the younger Sternberg's. W.H. Sternberg's factory was noted in the local newspaper as "a leading Norwich industry" and indeed it was large business for the day. The factory itself was a three-story brick structure with lots of windows and a four-story brick smokestack. A photo of the factory from about 1875 (when W.H. Sternberg owned it) shows about 30 employees standing out in front of the building. Employee names included: James Stack (long-time mill employee), Charles Barber, Clinton Merrill, James Sherwood and Mr. Bowker (distinguished in the photo with long flowing white whiskers). With 30 employees , the Sternberg Mill (also known as the "Sternberg Sash and Blind Company") was putting out a high volume of high quality finished wood millwork products (doors, newel posts, window sashes, balausters and more) as well as dressed lumber throughout the New England area. It's also likely that many of their finished products were being shipped by rail to cities in the west. At this time (1875), the population of Norwich was only a few hundred people - considerably less than 1,000 people. It's impossible that the town itself or even the local area around Norwich could have supported a woodworking factory with 30 full-time employees.

Sternberg's Steam Planing Mill was definitely an efficient and high volume production factory. The equipment which produced high-quality decorative millwork was expensive to purchase and business demanded a certain level of orders in order to cover the payments on such expensive machinery. Also, most steam-powered saw-mills of the day were frequently shoddy open-air shacks (not established facilities in brick buildings) with a large boiler in the middle which provided steam to a cylinder steam engine. Sometimes steam leaked from boilers or pipes. Steam blew from the governor and from the steam exhaust and the work was hot and humid. Cotton belts and pulleys connected the equipment and the area smelled like a mixture of fresh wood, grease, burning wood and steam. When in full operation the sawdust from the mill provided more than enough fuel to power the boiler.

In addition to owning one of the leading businesses in Norwich with a large number of employees, Sternberg also served as Mayor or Norwich in 1864. Mayors (or "Presidents" as they were called then in Norwich) served one-year terms. The town Clerk in 1864 was Orson Pope. Also Norwich was originally known as a "Hamlet". This changed in 1816 when the town incorporated as a "Village". This changed again later when it incorporated as a "City". So, technically, Sternberg was "President of a Village" vs. "Mayor of a City", but in any case it was the highest elected position in Norwich.

See photostream for photograph of the Sternberg Sash and Blind Company with employees standing outside.

Your thoughts, ideas, comments and/or stories about this photograph or this place are appreciated and welcomed!!