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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
hard to believe that the mansions were so quickly abandoned, and reused by anyone that could figure out something to do with them, but, I never would have guessed that one would become a junkyard
I am not familiar with the the history of the industry of cotton and tobaaco, but I guess it was predicated on slave labor, and no one had a clue how to farm in the south to grow vegetable crops, like everyone everywhere else on the planet, to keep plantations in business with farming instead of bankrupt without slave labor. Or corn, wheat, alfalfa, etc
Then again, this photo is in 1936, after the great depression, and about 50 years after the civil war, this Antebellum mansion/plantation could have failed and been abandoned for other reasons
the same place in 2011:
It was built in 1837 on a 350-acre plantation, with the columns and Italianate tower added just before the Civil War. Dr. Drish died there in 1867, his wife Sarah in 1884.
It was the Jemison School from 1906 to 1925. After its time as an auto parts warehouse and Walker Evans's visit, it was purchased by Southside Baptist Church, which built a brick sanctuary on one side.
Threatened with demolition, it was leased to the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa County in 1994, and after designation as a "place in peril," acquired by the Tuscaloosa Preservation Society in 2007. It was finally renovated starting in 2012 and opened in 2016 as a venue for weddings and other special events.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1942
How they foudn anyone to act that cheery, as a toolbooth operator, is a mystery. Maybe he was simply happy as hell to not be in hand to hand combat with Nazi's in the Battle of the Bulge
A Fruehauf trailer, I posted about them https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/06/august-fruehauf-and-otto-neumann.html
Monday, January 29, 2024
fascinating design of the cranes on the piers, for unloading bananas and transferring them to boxcars.... anyone that has been in a Navy shipyard is used to bare skeleton cranes, so to me, these are some deluxe cranes
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27228?size=_original#caption
Friday, January 26, 2024
Sunday, May 07, 2023
Tuesday, January 03, 2023
wow, hell of a big service bay. 1932 Goodyear service station, San Francisco.
The garage area had two pits where gas fumes would settle, creating a fire hazard. Pits were banned and grease monkeys began to use hoists in the new service garages. The "large round thing cast in concrete" was probably an exhaust fan with an explosionproof motor.
vintage traffic signal and Hudson in San Francisco, 1927
the same type of signal light was in use until at least 1942
Friday, June 03, 2022
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Sunday, February 27, 2022
those beautiful elm trees before the Dutch Elm Disease came along, FSA photo in Milwaukee,1941
Of the estimated 77 million elms in North America in 1930, over 75% had been lost by 1989
Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango, Colorado by Russell Lee for the FSA, 1940
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25563?size=_original#caption
No. 268 was used in the filming of the movie "Denver & Rio Grande" in 1952. Built in 1882, it is currently at the Gunnison Pioneer Museum.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
1938 railroad and coal yard, Omaha, Nebraska.
Friday, February 25, 2022
West Shore R.R. depot, West Point, N.Y. 1895, a location used in the motion picture “The Long Gray Line” filmed by John Ford as graduates, in campaign hats and boots, departed during World War I.
this cool piece of historic architecture (in the Queen Anne style I posted about last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/01/1959-photos-opf-fond-du-lac-train.html)
was replaced with a building that wouldn't burn down in 1926
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25936
In 1926, about the time that the Hotel Thayer was replacing the original West Point Hotel near the Plain, the current station was completed. So the station used in “The Long Gray Line” was not the actual station used during World War I, but the newer (and current) station. It was also about this time that West Point (and all the boats passing on the Hudson River) lost a landmark. To widen the road to the station, it was necessary to remove some of the cliff near the station. Along with the rock outcroppings were lost the huge letters, “Bunker Hill, June 17th, 1775” that had been carved there in 1857
history of this station is at https://www.westpointaog.org/page.aspx?pid=3879
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
I'm guessing one kid lost a bet, a coin toss, or a rock paper scissors game, and had to push the other on the hand truck. 1964, Brooklyn
cool photo from a street photographer that was unknown until after his death, Angelo Rizzuto
His street photography opus of 60,000 images lay in file cabinets, unseen by anyone, until 2001... 34 years after his death.
His father had been wealthy, and the fight over the estate left Angelo a mental case, he was committed, etc. He surprisingly had attended Harvard Law school, so, he was exceptionally smart. He bought a brownstone in Manhattan, with inheritance, and developed his photos on the 2nd floor
Every day at 2 p.m. between May 1952 and June 1964 (excepting January through July 1960), Rizzuto would venture out with a camera to record images for what was to be a vast encyclopedic kaleidoscope of Manhattan, a book to be called Little Old New York.
Before he died, knowing that he would not live to see his intention realized, Rizzuto bequeathed 60,000 photographs and the proceeds from the sale of his house, about $50,000, to the Library of Congress, on the condition that the library publish a book of his work.
The library appointed some asshole that did a horrible job, simply to get the money, and used that money to buy the photos of famous photographers.
They published a book described by photographic historian Michael Lesy as "bound with staples, illustrated with perhaps 60 indifferently printed reproductions of the dead man’s pictures."
Lesy first encountered these images in 1973 while looking for photographs of the 1950s and compiled them into a longer book entitled Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto.
Rizzuto's collection of images in the Library of Congress is still largely undigitized; as of late 2021, 1400 images are available online. Obviously, the librarians have spent 50 years ignoring a lump sum total of work because Angelo Rizzuto wasn't famous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Rizzuto
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26095
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/stalking-the-crowded-city-a-loner-with-a-lens.html is an article that is only accessible if you haven't exceeded the free article a month from the NY Times
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26095
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/arts/design/stalking-the-crowded-city-a-loner-with-a-lens.html is an article that is only accessible if you haven't exceeded the free article a month from the NY Times
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