Mystery Photo: What on earth is this????

[pardes]

It's very dark by the time I get home on the bike. Last night I took quite a few night pictures to experiment with the camera on my new cell phone. It's a crappy camera compared to my "real" cameras but it was fun to experiment. The only problem is that it took me ages to remember what this was that I photographed.

I had to recreate my travels last night to figure it out and even then I was astonished when I realized what it really was.

Any ideas what you think it is? Hints: The route home last night included an art museum, two restaurants (I had steak and eggs at one for supper), one city bus, one gas station, one motel of the hot tub, rent a room for an hour variety, fifteen minutes in a relatively dark suburbs neighborhood that only has a few streetlights, and one 7-11 to get toilet paper and dog food.

Somewhere in there I took this photo. What is it a photo of?

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[Tuckervill]

That is a dashboard hula girl!

Karen

[Zen]

I can't get past thinking of it as a painting.

[pardes]

Good Grief! Yes, it is.

I don't know if I was more surprised to actually see one or that it was so quickly identified.

I just can't believe that people still have them on their dashboard.

Actually I was expecting someone to think it might be a bad artist's rendering of one of Degas' ballet paintings.

Oh well, we live in a hula girl society in Delaware, I guess.

edit....

Ahhhh, I just saw that good old Zen came through and guessed a painting! Excellent.

[malkin]

Degas' dashboard hula girl paintings were just so far ahead of their time that they were never as popular as the ballet dancers.

[pardes]

Degas' dashboard hula girl paintings were just so far ahead of their time that they were never as popular as the ballet dancers.

Just imagine how very bizarre it would be if they opened some vault somewhere and actually found some of his "hula" paintings. It was probably during the period when he was experimenting with painting on velvet.

[Tuckervill]

That would be bizarre.

I don't know the storied history of the dashboard hula girl, but I do know that a small group of my friends in Memphis went through "a phase" wherein they all had versions of hula girls, or bobble-head Jesus', and even a moose on their dashboards. My mind was already primed for recognition.

Karen

[pardes]

My memories of the 50's and 60's was boys who always had their tassel from their graduation cap dangling from the rear view mirror. OR, if they used their father's car, their father always had one of those liquid bubble compasses on the dashboard.

I wonder if there is an equivalent odd item that people put on their handlebars. Something non-functional and simply "ornamental."

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I wonder if there is an equivalent odd item that people put on their handlebars. Something non-functional and simply "ornamental."

Read this thread on "bike mojos":
biking mojos