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Bruddas Monkey Woman in Red, c. 1937. Kodachrome Glass Mounted Slide. What’s everyone looking at? Who are these guys? Celebrities from some town, from some time... Western Star Boat. Somewhere in Mexico. I can’t explain why but this 1986 picture of the Sovran... Desert sands in the foreground, snow-capped mountain peaks in... Ball Game. April, 1959. The only one in this picture with his eye on the ball is the guy... I think this picture is from somewhere in Nebraska. The $3.95... Sometimes I try to imagine where a picture was taken. Pictures... I hope we get a lot of snow this winter. A cellist from 1943 looks through the cracked pane of a... Boy on a Big Wheel Sometimes the look in a child’s eyes bear the disdain and... YOU Courtship, 1940s Kid in a Clown Suit. More than the ambivalent child in the clown... You spring from my loin. Now swim! |
This subject of faded signs painted or affixed to the sides of old buildings has been done many times over by many photographers and observers. The subject is, I believe, verging on cliché if it has not crossed that threshold already. Nevertheless, I am attracted to this subject because I have long felt that buildings which house places of business should have a plaque or sign of some sort listing what businesses have occupied this space, and when. Many times I try to find a restaurant or store that I visited a year earlier, only to find the store gone. Adding to the disconnect is the fact that no one in the neighborhood has any memory of the previous establishment. Not even the employees of the new place know what business filled the space earlier. I guess you could say this photo series of faded signage is a companion to my other set of Telephone Exchange Name Sightings, an ongoing series in which I share photos and scans of phone numbers as they were used before area codes.
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If it were in Detroit, MI or 'downriver' (NOT 'south Detroit') it would be WArwick.
Posted by Bob (guest) on Wed 10 Mar 2010 04:55:32 PM EST