“BELGIUM. Province of West Flanders. Town of Ypres. Cats festival. Since the 10th century, on the second Sunday of the month of May, people celebrate cats to be fortunate for the rest of the year. 1975.”
photo by Harry Gruyaert
Valoche/a Flux Travel Aid
by George Brecht
1975
”(.1) A wood hinged box with a label attached to the outer surface of lid containing (.2) plastic egg, (.3) inner working of a music box, (.4) pool ball No. 1, (.5) metal noise maker, (.6) wood yoyo, (.7) blown egg, (.8) Ping-pong ball, (.9) wood puzzle, (.10) jump rope, (.11) black domino, (.12) plastic chessman, (.13) plastic golf ball, (.14) colored rubber ball, (.15) wood ball, (.16 - .17) 2 wood children’s blocks, (.18) pumice stone, (.19) knit blue ball, (.20) round cloth ball, (.21) glass egg, (.22) rubber unidentifiable object, (.23 - .24) 2 wooden tops, (.25) a wood handle, (.26) plastic unidentifiable object.”
An important message from the Potato Board, circa 1977.
I can’t really read the small text, but I bet it doesn’t say anything about how potatoes are gross without the addition of some kind of fat. “Potatoes: Add Your Own Fat!” isn’t a very good slogan to attract dieters, I guess.
“BELGIUM. Province of Liege. District of Verviers. Town of Stavelot. Carnival. Annual event since 1502, beginning on the third sunday before Easter, lasting three days. For 500 years, the “Blancs-Moussis” have dressed up as white men with long noses, in order to make fun of the abbot who had forbidden his monks to join the carnival. 1975.”
photos by Harry Gruyaert
