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Unfortunately its glossy red concavity calls to mind a particular Shock Meme I saw involuntarily on multiple occasions in the 2000s-2010s. All these years later and my brain is still poisoned!
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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a chair outside "Sugar Shack" on the west side of Atlantic Avenue between 24th Street and 25th Street.
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Can't tell from this angle, but the sign says "Modoc Bank".
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
-- Thornton Wilder (American playwright and novelist who won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Boots the Chemist, Camden High Street, London NW1.
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"The worst kind of lonely is not when you're alone. It is when you're right next to them and, emotionally, there's no one home."
-- Unknown
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
"It's the real thing" Vancouver, British Columbia
Built in 1947, the Sabine Theatre is most likely the 1947 project for the Southern Amusement Company that is found in this list of drawings by Lake Charles, Louisiana, architect John M. Gabriel. It was acquired by the town of Many in the mid-1990’s and is now used for live theatre by the Sabine Parish Players, as well as musical performances, occasional movies, and other community events. It was also featured in the “downtown scenes” in the movie The Man in The Moon.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
Back entrance to Quality Woodworking in Brooklyn.
In September 1809, Meriwether Lewis was living in St. Louis as the appointed Governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory. He left St. Louis for Washington, DC, on September 4, 1809, to protest the War Department’s denial of payment vouchers that he had submitted for reimbursement. Lewis traveled with his personal servant, a free African American man named John Pernia (sometimes also spelled Pernier.) Lewis traveled to Fort Pickering (modern-day Memphis, Tennessee) by boat and intended to proceed down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and then travel by ship to Washington, DC. Rumors of war with Britain and the thought of his journals from the Corps of Discovery falling into their hands changed his mind. He decided to travel overland to the nation’s capital.
Lewis left Fort Pickering on September 29th with John Pernia, Major James Neelly - the U.S. Indian agent to the Chickasaw, and Neelly’s servant. He arrived at Grinder’s Stand on the evening of October 10, 1809. He was accompanied by Pernia and Neelly’s enslaved servant. James Neelly remained farther south, looking for horses that had escaped the previous night. Lewis stayed in the cabin while Pernia and Neelly’s enslaved servant stayed in the stables. Mrs. Grinder and her children stayed in the kitchen separate from the house. In the middle of the night, Mrs. Grinder heard two gun shots and found Lewis bleeding from his wounds. By sunrise on October 11, 1809, Lewis was dead. Historical accounts support the probability of suicide. When Neelly arrived later in the day, he arranged to have Lewis buried a few hundred yards from Grinder’s Stand.
The Meriwether Lewis Monument was built in 1848 with funding provided by the Tennessee legislature. The legislation provided $500 “to preserve the place of internment, where the remains of General Meriwether Lewis were deposited”. The most noticeable feature of the monument is the broken shaft. This was deliberate and was a common custom in the 1800's. The broken shaft represents a life cut short by untimely death. The Pioneer Cemetery was first started in 1856, 47 years after Meriwether Lewis died and was buried. There are roughly 100 burials in the cemetery today.
On February 6, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish Meriwether Lewis National Monument. The War Department managed the monument and the superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park was put in charge of the monument site. From 1926-1933 the War Department made several improvements to the site, including replacing the deteriorating cemetery headstones and straightening and repointing the Lewis Monument’s stone. The War Department also marked the sections of old Natchez Trace that traveled through the site.
The national monument was transferred to the National Park Service in 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt reorganized the duties of the executive branch shortly after his inauguration. By the summer of 1933 a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp was established nearby to undertake erosion control, general cleanup, and nature trail development. The Natchez Trace Parkway assumed responsibility of the Meriwether Lewis National Monument in July 1939. With the construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway paralleling the monument, the site became an integral part of the Parkway. On August 10, 1961 the Meriwether Lewis National Monument was officially transferred to the Natchez Trace Parkway.
www.nps.gov/natr/learn/historyculture/exploring-the-meriw...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Cottage Motel, originally known as Cottage Courts, was built at 603 Park Avenue circa 1950, near the end of the flurry of tourist court construction along Park Avenue. It has little in common with the majority of the tourist court type buildings. Instead, it is one of the first "motel" type buildings in Hot Springs. Cottage Courts has continually served as tourist lodging since its construction. (Even up though our visit to Hot Springs earlier this year given this was out lodging for the night.)
Built by Cecil C. Foster and James D. McLain, Cottage Courts first appears in the 1951 City Directory of Hot Springs. Foster and McLain, who built and owned several other tourist courts on Park Avenue during the period, retained ownership of Cottage Courts throughout the decade. And, while the buildings have no real distinguishing architectural features, the two buildings are designed in the Ranch style of architecture. The design lacks the quaintness and stylistic elements of earlier tourist courts. The court shows an important transition from detached single units to the more modern attached motel layout. The red brick one-story buildings are closer in resemblance to early motels, but maintain the common area in the center of the two buildings that is characteristic of tourist courts.
The virtually unaltered condition of Cottage Courts and the transitional design between tourist court and motel made this district eligible for National Register of Historic Places listing on February 11, 2004 under criterion C as an excellent example of a Ranch style motor court. It was also nominated under criterion A with local significance for its association with automobile travel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/26139677
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
"Diamond 'G' Soap," reads a faded ad.
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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was a commercial building at 602 E Main St, at the southeast corner of East Main Street and South Union Street.
The building was built no later than 1885, for it appears on this fire insurance map from that year.
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The Cottage Motel, originally known as Cottage Courts, was built at 603 Park Avenue circa 1950, near the end of the flurry of tourist court construction along Park Avenue. It has little in common with the majority of the tourist court type buildings. Instead, it is one of the first "motel" type buildings in Hot Springs. Cottage Courts has continually served as tourist lodging since its construction. (Even up though our visit to Hot Springs earlier this year given this was out lodging for the night.)
Built by Cecil C. Foster and James D. McLain, Cottage Courts first appears in the 1951 City Directory of Hot Springs. Foster and McLain, who built and owned several other tourist courts on Park Avenue during the period, retained ownership of Cottage Courts throughout the decade. And, while the buildings have no real distinguishing architectural features, the two buildings are designed in the Ranch style of architecture. The design lacks the quaintness and stylistic elements of earlier tourist courts. The court shows an important transition from detached single units to the more modern attached motel layout. The red brick one-story buildings are closer in resemblance to early motels, but maintain the common area in the center of the two buildings that is characteristic of tourist courts.
The virtually unaltered condition of Cottage Courts and the transitional design between tourist court and motel made this district eligible for National Register of Historic Places listing on February 11, 2004 under criterion C as an excellent example of a Ranch style motor court. It was also nominated under criterion A with local significance for its association with automobile travel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/26139677
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
In downtown Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was "The Downtowner," formerly the Bloomington Furniture and Stove Exchange Building (built in 1910; a "contributing property" in the Bloomington Central Business District, 85000363 on the National Register of Historic Places; converted to subsidized senior apartments in the 1970s), at the northeast corner of West Market Street and North Center Street.
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Harrisburg, Oregon
OM System OM-5
Olympus 12-50mm
Norfolk Avenue over painted as the road is now called Whitegate Road. Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK.
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