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The site in 2002: |
| December 2002 | + | More Painted ads: Schneider in Home appliances, Mik in cleaning, cigarettes Fortuna in miscellaneous, Cheese Port-Salut in food and Jean's West in clothing. (All pict. by P. Rigault) |
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+ | Animals in advertising: It took
a while, but here is a new chapter about
Bears in adverts
Dieren in de reclame: het heeft even geduurd. Eindelijk een nieuw hoofdstuk: Beren. Roadsigns: Vanacker & Kesteleyn supplied us with new rock-signs and some very nice children's signs from Turkey. Also a new children's sign from Spain. Painted adverts: Sunlight soap and a very nice WAVI-soap in the cleaning section (J. Muller). Anisette Gras in the liquor section (M. Jullien). Film Lumière, liquor Suze, hair-care Forvil and lubricant Renault by M. Chartier. Also two new Dubonnet walls. New book for children: De Verdwijning (The disappearance) by Suzanne Visser. A couple of friends via the internet land in a fascinating and magical world. Bartolomeo's collection helps to unravel the mystery. Read more: www.suzannevisser.com. Site is in Dutch with short summary in English. |
| November 2002 | + | Watermills in Altoaragón: The mill of Sercué (De molen van Sercué) also known as Molino de Aso (Valle de Añisclo). |
| Oktober 2002 | + | More Painted adverts: Crédit Lyonnais by Jacques Richard (new contributor). A nice batch with older pictures by Philippe Rigault (new contributor):
Vat 69 and Négrita Rhum both from Andorra.
Also two very nice Mobiloil murals from Paris;
Renault Oil;
Castrol Oil;
Hoover and
Cinzano.
More roadsigns: Some very nice men at work from Czechia by H. De Meyer and A. Anselin. |
| + | Painted adverts: a nice batch
from several countries. Chocolat d'Aiguebelle,
L'Indépendant and
Le Midi Libre (France) (two newspapers; I opened
a dedicated section), two Campari murals (Czechia - A. Guët); Coca Cola, Sprite and
Schweppes (Tunesia - M. Chartier);
Mandarin apéritif from France by M. Jullien (new contributor).
For your convenience: List of brands. Road signs: Rocks from Australia by L. Sims (new contributor) and Children's crossing from Israel by Y. Fogelson (new country, new contributor). |
| September 2002 | + | Road signs: We probably already have the southernmost road signs on line. We thus set out for the north and came back with Children from Spitsbergen and Men at work from the same island. We also have a new rock sign, a new worker and the first children from Madeira by Luc Scheerlynck (new contributor). J. Van Waeyenberge discovered two new children's signs from the Azores. Two new contributors (Darren Hodges and Jacky Vanderbiesen) for two new countries: Falling rocks from Taiwan and Children from Zanzibar. |
| + | Painted adverts: A very patriotic drink Vichy Etat and a new Izarra mural (both pict. A. Guët); also a complete LUX mural by Jean Muller (new contributor) |
| August 2002 | + | Watermills in Altoaragón: The mill of Panzano (De molen van Panzano) is muy ruinoso. The mill of Ainielle : a primitive construction and very well preserved. De molen van Ainielle een primitieve en goed bewaarde constructie. |
| + | Road signs: very nice children from France by C. Vanhercke. New man at work from Trinidad & Tobago and Children from Guyana both by C. Broadwell (new countries and new contributor!). |
| July 2002 | + | Animals in advertising: added
adverts with pigs supporting the
article about the elephant.
Dieren in de reclame: varkens ter uitdieping van het artikel over de olifant. |
| + | Road signs:
rock warnings and
children crossing from Sri Lanka by H. De Meyer (a new country !) and new children from Greece by T. Vandendriessche. We have now samples from 76 countries. There are many more. Team members, roam the world ! |
| June 2002 | + | Watermills in Altoaragón: The
mill of Acumuer
(De molen van Acumuer). The mill is muy
ruinoso but the waterworks merit a detour.
Also the mill of Mondot (de
molen van Mondot).
Road signs: the first Man at work from Morocco (pict. Stijn Vanacker). |
| May 2002 | + | Road signs: Amazing rock sign with damaged car and a man at work from the United States of America (S. Visser) |
| April 2002 | + | Watermills in Altoaragón: The mill of Fiscal (De molen van Fiscal). Also in Fiscal: the fulling-mill of Lacort rebuilt. (En op dezelfde plaats: de vollemolen van Lacort gereconstrueerd) |
| + | Road signs The first man at work from Norway, and the first children and rocks from Sweden by Jan Koelstra (new contributor). A new rock sign from New Zealand - features a person! - by George Taran (new contributor). | |
| + | Painted adverts Three new walls from
Sri Lanka: Corrugated plate Ramco in miscellaneous,
Sunlight soap in cleaning and a
Coca Cola in drinks all by Hilde De Meyer.
We switch to another continent for Michelin tires
and a Renault car in statu nascendi.
Both on the same wall in Kinshasa and photographed by Philippe Viguier (new contributor!).
This brings us to a total of 546 murals on line: 187 by myself, 182 by A. Guët, 89 by M. Chartier and 88 by several other people (see credits). |
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| + | This site was Yahoo's pick of the day of February 6.
Read their commentary.
The number of pageviews soared and reached a 190 000 (Normal number is about 45 000). |
| March 2002 | + | Animals in advertising
is enriched with a new chapter about Elephants.
Dieren in de reclame heeft een nieuw hoofdstuk over Olifanten. |
| + | Road signs: Cancel your flight to Mauritius. It's useless. Baeten & De Dier went there and I'm convinced no single one sign managed to escape their attention. Rocks, children and men from Mauritius. More new road signs: Children from Vietnam (N. Heerink). | |
| + | Old painted murals. Several new walls by Claude Fiquet (New contributor!): Two different Simca swallows, a DININ-athlete and a nice Opel car in Transportation; Mobiloil in Lubricants; Olida Ham; Cognac de Lagrange and more Byrrh. |
| February 2002 | + | Watermills in Altoaragón: The mill of Gistain (De molen van Gistain). Also in Gistain: the first specimen of a new type, a saw-mill. (En van dezelfde plaats: een zaagmolen) |
| + | Painted adverts: An exceptional (it will be difficult to do better this year.) Composition des moines (A. Guët); a very good Noilly Prat (M. Chartier); and still more drinks: beers Foster's Lager, Voll- and Estrella Damm and Bandeira Port; Ferrer olive oil. | |
| + | Road signs: New men at work from Vietnam (N. Heerink) |
| January 2002 | + | Bartolomeo starts his seventh year on-line.
Several people still arrive via the old URL. The new web address is www.elve.net. |
| + | Road signs: Men at work, Children and Falling rocks from Cuba by Hans Jochems; a pedestrian from Burma by Dorothea Schelch (both new countries and new contributors!). New signs from China too: Man at work by Erika Van Den Bergh and Rocks by Ronnie Fong. |
| History | + | This site in 2001: July - December |
| + | This site in 2001: January - June |
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