tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35881033961312030012024-03-13T17:40:07.827-04:00Photographers Street ViewGoogle Street View derivative photography searches for the artistic in Google Street View, showcasing the hidden potential of Google products. Visual art innovations!Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-14130694683736149212019-08-31T11:00:00.001-04:002022-06-12T16:41:56.059-04:00Photographers Street View index<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>updated<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 31 August 2019</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome! The images you see in this collection are derived from <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View">Google Street View</a></b> using Google's "Picasa" photo editing. The site has been developed to feature locations of interest to the author/photographer and you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Google explains their Street View project, including ways you can become involved on their page, "<b><a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/streetview/understand/">Understand Street View</a></b>." This page shows illustrations of the various ways their cameras are mounted on all sorts of contraptions (not just cars). You may be "wowed" by their publishing process here, too. Hats off to Google for starting a revolution in how we see our world and share it with each other!</span><br />
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From 2013 comes this close look at a Google Street View car with Laser scanners and multiple cameras.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Google's 9 eyes <a href="https://goo.gl/pzQlxz">Street View self-portrait</a>, Sept 2015</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What did the photographer miss?</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I follow Google's "9 eyes," looking around to see what's there. Worldwide, Jon Rafman (<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://9-eyes.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://9-eyes.com/</a>) and I are the only ones I know that are doing this, each of us following our own interests. Due to my family background (<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/sets/72157621609806889/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DeForest Diver Collection</a> & <a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.arnoldtradecards.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.arnoldtradecards.com</a>) I tend to notice things related to railroads and commerce. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Acknowledgement to Street View and the Street View URL will be provided for each photo, which will allow you to visit the location, too--and create your own interpretations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An angle, an older Street View tour of the area or a change in tone might suggest a unique view for you to snip. Move that mouse! Venture down that lonely alley or country byway. Look around. Street View isn't just a directional aid. <b><i>It's an explorer's tool.</i></b> Have a wonderful trip!</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlcIhRjGiaLkYy5xCBN7JzwnqaLrWfgtP8DFxKU73n-GRxzJQHniTlSPm5xdJrcxTtj7fjlBPfJSBazPdjvjfTRryfiERpOe1BJzCH2ulhA6KyTQdQjUQCZMyjXJm3Lln9J06e1QBLUg/s1600/50indx.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlcIhRjGiaLkYy5xCBN7JzwnqaLrWfgtP8DFxKU73n-GRxzJQHniTlSPm5xdJrcxTtj7fjlBPfJSBazPdjvjfTRryfiERpOe1BJzCH2ulhA6KyTQdQjUQCZMyjXJm3Lln9J06e1QBLUg/s320/50indx.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 9.856px;">Shadows on Summer Street</span><br />
<a href="http://arnoldpostcardcollection.blogspot.com/2015/05/page-50.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 9.856px; text-decoration: none;">page 50</a>, The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection<br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@42.353511,-71.057734,3a,75y,285.79h,103.24t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scBKMjqXJJViZhb4QqUDNHg!2e0?hl=en" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 9.856px; text-decoration: none;">Google Street View, Sept 2014</a><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px; line-height: 9.856px;">(most likely location of the Double Thread Sewing Company offices, Boston MA)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This blog originated unexpectedly as a by-product of the <b><a href="http://arnoldpostcardcollection.blogspot.com/">Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection</a></b>. The author found himself enjoying Google Street View entirely too much, snipping here and there contemporary photos of locations of largely northeastern American businesses in the 19th century. When the indexing of the Arnold collection is complete (don't hold your breath) the author intends to return here to develop this blog further. As <b><a href="http://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/p/1-east-patio.html">Diana Studer</a></b> says, "A garden that's finished is dead."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As of 2019 an increasing number of photographers are modifying, organizing and incorporating Google Street View images in their works of art. Although experience in photography is helpful, anybody with patience can clip the 9 eyes' images. Time Magazine's 2012 article "<b><a href="http://time.com/55683/street-view-and-beyond-googles-influence-on-photography/">Street View and Beyond: Google's Influence on Photography</a></b>" gives a good overview of the state of the art at that time. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Original images shared in connection with both this Photographers Street View site and the <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/artisticg/home">Artistic Google project on the old Google+ platform</a></b>
are copyrighted by Google Maps. A favorite site for Street View derivative artwork is <a href="http://google-street-view-art.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Google Street View Art logo" border="0" data-original-height="28" data-original-width="200" height="27" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTXGKnjj2pV2GiCpSFAxEiFe106pccKNKhmWwIpkwKLuF_XmPwmHUGYc7FUtJu5QMQbzBKbd1Mq4BmWvYCF6moTK3WvPKiCIbncg4kh_WB442LLCiyyZcLy7b3VZM7Z2KsvTTA0ZaoXEg/s200/Google+Street+View+Art.JPG" title="http://google-street-view-art.blogspot.com/" width="200" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Photographers Street View<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Contents:</b></span></span></h2>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://middletownny.arnoldtradecards.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Starting out in Middletown NY 1946-1964</a></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://arnoldpostcardcollection.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885</a></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://arnoldappendix.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Appendix 1 - The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Collection - 1885</a></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://sites.google.com/arnoldtradecards.com/arnoldgalleries/home">The Arnold 19th Century Trade Card Galleries </a></span></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://bestarnoldcards.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Best of the Arnold Cards</a></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://sites.google.com/arnoldtradecards.com/kids/home">Victorian Kids, What did you do? </a></span></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="sidebar-item"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null"><span style="background-color: yellow;">You Are Here:</span> Photographers Street View</a></span> </span></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>About the Collection curator (Jeff Diver):</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://middletownny1946to1964.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Starting out in Middletown NY 1946-1964</a></span></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://notable-experiences.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Notable Experiences: Beech Mountain Boy Scout Camp</a></span></span></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://employment1960to1969.blogspot.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Employment 1960-1969: Port Fortune, Chatham MA, Mongaup Pond Campsite, Livingston Manor, NY</a></span></span></span></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://placesofinterest.arnoldgalleries.com/" rel="contributor-to nofollow" target="null">Places of interest: David's Folly, Mohonk, One Library Place</a></span></span></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157672400012197"><b>Imaginary Gardens of Blue</b></a> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157700941912601">Imaginary Gardens of Red</a></b> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157672491955387">Imaginary Gardens of white</a> </b></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157672399710627">Imaginary Gardens of Yellow</a> </b> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157673954730667">Our Victorian Companions</a></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157703452849234">Short Shots from the Imaginary Garden</a> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157697957767050">The Best Arnold Cards</a> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157674640244377">Victorian Fashions</a></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevictorian/albums/72157676182685438">Victorians' Hairstyles</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More and more we see our screens. We collide with our environment, relying on our technology to interpret our experience for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do we see or hear anything of our immediate surroundings? No. Oblivious, we allow passing cameras to catch our image as we lose ourselves in alternate realities. We appear to be here. But our minds are miles away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Google Street View catches our obsession and renders a verdict on our distraction. We have become shadows of ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span> <b>Life, Stilled</b> The "still life" of the 21st century is a far cry from that illustrated by 19th century artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since the advent of the cell phone, pedestrian traffic no longer flows predictably, but is a dance of random motions, the demented play of musical chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do we stop when the music starts, or is it the other way 'round? Makes things complicated when we are all dancing to different music!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lost or found?</b> Oblivious to the passage of Google Street View cameras in Boston MA, September 2014, a pedestrian is totally absorbed in his phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do generations speak the same language any more? Sometimes. Information transfer is made more difficult as new modes of communication erect learning barriers between generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our phones are smarter than we are. Not only do we find ourselves divided by various degrees of shared history, we are now also segregated by our communication skills and preferences. Help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Shadows on Snow Hill</b>, London. On Google Street View in July 2016 a passerby is distracted. Did she know she was about to walk by the former location of the Malt Bitters Company [ https://goo.gl/hWcCp1 ]?</span><br />
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<b>Shadows on Snow Hill, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5169769,-0.1029346,3a,30y,42.37h,75.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suEyJgnp1AeYDd6EbG0V9ag!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DuEyJgnp1AeYDd6EbG0V9ag%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.91304%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656">original</a></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>image of trade card from<a href="https://arnoldpostcardcollection.blogspot.com/2015/06/celluloid-collar-and-cuff-malt-bitters.html"> page 30</a>, Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You are here.</b> But only for a moment. Your fleeting glimpse is featured here. Momentary inspiration can be revealing, especially when the images are revisited. Here are some perspectives that I have captured using generations of Google Street View cameras (as many as 15 at one point) while "just passing by."</span></div>
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year (if available). Below are two moods of <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9381233,-76.6892386,3a,75y,247.4h,111.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saaSWvjdXXSVoRlqXPBCIPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Clark Street Rd. in Cayuga NY</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ever see wildlife</b> on Google Street View? "Black Towers" is a rare <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7027072,-74.0122463,3a,51.9y,320.08h,138.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soyTJo9ySs-08Nl9HJ-yKUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Street View sighting</a> of a Herring Gull in NYC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Imperfect Arches"</b> Street View visits Portland CT's <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5695476,-72.6466147,3a,75y,214.09h,107.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sw0El4xQ5AENT6AJqnyi2xA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Arrigoni Bridge</a>.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Keep moving</b>...Do not linger...Pass me by! <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6183234,-75.4554773,3a,75y,245.11h,89.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCc1eE-k0vW9jeue4DCdHRA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-75.4554773,3a,75y,253h,105.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCc1eE-k0vW9jeue4DCdHRA!2e0!5s20110601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Google Street View at 601 N. Branford St. Allentown PA</a> captures stuff we're not supposed to notice. However, for you special ones with open eyes, this space is now reserved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Classic!</b> Captured by Google's cameras on a fireboat in the middle of the Hudson River in 2015, this is one of my favorite views of the NY skyline. I modified and framed it using Picasa for this interpretation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As explained in <a href="http://arnoldappendix.blogspot.com/2017/07/fuller-warren-company.html">Appendix I of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection</a>, Fuller & Warren stoves were manufactured in Troy NY. This humble wall is all that remains of the original multi-story factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Pawtucket, RI:</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Shadows of Industry</b></span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The reverse of Alix's card stimulated our interest in the Pawtucket operations of J & P Coats. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></i></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>ocation, location, location</i></b> is the mantra of the Real Estate industry. <b><i>Profit, profit, profit</i></b> motivates corporate decisions. In the 19th century, cheap water power and inexpensive transportation to market gave New England manufacturing locations advantages. In the mid-20th century, however, locations in the northeastern United States began to lose their hold on industry as labor costs gave other locations, both within and outside the US, decisive advantages for those concerned with profit margins.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">J & P Coats once employed thousands in Pawtucket RI. Today, its successor company, Coats, records its history on the <a href="http://www.coats.com/index.asp?pageid=20&time=year1800s">company site.</a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">This all looks very positive, with the emphasis on growth and mergers and innovation. <b>Anything missing? </b>Why yes, now that you mention it. It was during the 60s that Coats left its Pawtucket employees behind, all 4,000 or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The importance of Coats to Pawtucket was described in </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Slater Trust Company, "<a href="http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1">Pawtucket Past and Present</a>, being a brief account of the beginning and progress of its industries and a resume of the early history of the city." (1917). Rhode Island History.Book1, p.22.</i> This selection is part of the <a href="http://network.bepress.com/arts-and-humanities/history/united-states-history/?utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages&utm_medium=PDF&utm_source=digitalcommons.providence.edu%2Fri_history%2F1">United States History Commons</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Page 32 of the reference above notes that in the early 20th century, J & P Coats was one among several companies operating in Pawtucket:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Below is an <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3774p.pm008800">1877 map</a> (credit: Library of Congress) showing the Conant Co. buildings (marked "2") to the left of Pine St. across from the Fales & Jenks Machine Co. I'm not sure how the pond in left center survived all this industrial activity intact, but it appears to have come through with a clear, unpolluted appearance in the 2018 photo (credit: Google Maps). Click on the map images to enlarge them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What was it like inside these mills when they were in working? We can show you one of the operations from 1956. If there were a sound track on this film, you probably wouldn't want to listen to it. Workers just had to get used to cacophony. Click the arrow to watch on this page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While adults staffed most 20th century American thread mills, the <b>history of employment</b> in these places both in America and Scotland, where J & P Coats originated, was sordid. In 2018, many industries, deprived of cheap labor in their countries of origin by union contracts and child labor laws, have distinguished themselves by <b>chasing cheap labor</b>, first to southern states of the US and then by moving their factories to countries where cheap labor abounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The 15 min. documentary below introduces us to the labor practices prevalent in industrialized Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The <b>worldwide persistence of this pattern of exploitation</b> into the 21st century is remarkable and speaks poorly of those of us who allow its persistence anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Part 1 of a <a href="https://youtu.be/87eVOpbcoVo">BBC documentary</a> ~ 15 min.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Vintage postcards show the prominence of Coats on the Pawtucket skyline in the early 20th century:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When companies move, what gets left behind? In the case of Pawtucket, lots of potential! Potential for pollution, big fires and civic decay, that is. All communities that lose big companies suffer for awhile, most for decades.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>A Google search gave us some enticing leads...from Thursday, January 27, 1887 and Thursday, September 29, 1887</i></b></span>. (source: Google Search: '''Anderson & Buchanan' Taylorstown")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://goo.gl/EMG6A1">We began</a> to narrow things down...</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">...and discovered <a href="https://goo.gl/22riKg">this small town</a>. Links below are to Google Street View images.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">We headed towards the center of Taylorstown down <a href="https://goo.gl/Az5uXs">this gentle curve</a>, turning left at the four </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;">As we turned onto Taylorstown's Main Street, we were entering the Taylorstown Historic District (click to enlarge or read <a href="https://goo.gl/zakm3F">original page</a>.) <a href="mailto:Wchlandmarks@gmail.com">email Washington County History & Landmarks</a></span></b></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">There were <a href="https://goo.gl/y5vVBu">vacant lots and ruins</a>, any one of which might have been the site of the Anderson & Buchanan store. It was difficult to tell if their building was still standing as we passed through.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Our attention was drawn to the many <a href="https://goo.gl/KAw5PM">Victorian & Federal style windows</a> that surrounded us on Main St. The Post Office seemed to be among the newest buildings in town. (Remarkably for such a small community, they still had one!)</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the earliest buildings had <a href="https://goo.gl/upVSzC">metal anchors and stone lentils</a>.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><a href="https://goo.gl/XGJZfX">Paint colors</a> were used to emphasize some of the Victorian features.</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Some folks used <a href="https://goo.gl/ygvSaE">a single color for the entire house</a>...</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">...but most <a href="https://goo.gl/dSaJPQ">used color to complement</a> their restorations.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Not every building in town was restored. This one had <a href="https://goo.gl/Fff4nL">an addition</a> attached to the original Federal structure. The addition (left) appeared to be in worse shape than the original.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">21st century pedestrians come across occasional stretches of what might have been Victorian <a href="https://goo.gl/GnJoCC">sidewalks</a>. They disappear into vacant lots only to reappear further on.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Motorists fare no better. This appears to be a <a href="https://goo.gl/4xMFbn">remnant of a very early gas station</a>.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">The only <a href="https://goo.gl/rNVGKr">other pumps appear to have been removed</a> from the front of this closed store, which was for sale when we (via Google's Street View) drove by in July 2012. There were no operating gas stations nearby.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Accustomed to seeing <a href="https://goo.gl/S4xT4Y">weight limits for bridges</a>, we were surprised to see this sign. It was good not to be driving ANY vehicle over <a href="https://goo.gl/HLkSkm">this colorful bridge</a>:</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Historic? No doubt. Safe? Maybe<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;">We departed Taylorstown reluctantly, as we had not been able to complete our original mission, to identify the location of the former Anderson & Buchanan store.</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. Just found this interesting video on YouTube. It's been 24 years since it was filmed. I wonder what's happened to the bridge since then...</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Anna Belle Peevey's video gives us a narrative of fracking's consequences near Taylorstown:</span></b></i></div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-49597661920322081162017-07-13T10:57:00.000-04:002018-10-01T16:29:13.021-04:00Melbourne Street Art 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All photos are copyright Google/Alphabet. Modifications by Jeff Diver via Google Picasa.<br />
Original Street View link: Color splash on <a href="https://goo.gl/Lt8ANw">Hosier Ln</a>.</td></tr>
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Street Art Gallery: Melbourne Australia - Part 1</h2>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>Thanks to Google for the cameras,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>to Google's anonymous photographers for their control of those cameras</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>to <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113538198318340888883">+Jason Boyes</a> for the inspiration</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>(Boyes Collection: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/48TqmB">Street Art, Artisans & the Ramdom Muse</a>)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>and to <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116307366703994918540">+Enrique Alcalde Morales</a> for the word of encouragement</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>...just when I needed it.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Melbourne easily transmits a spirit of vibrant enthusiasm for life through its art and architecture. Downtown Melbourne has a remarkable number of narrow alleys and corridors. It is mostly along these paths that Google Street View cameras discovered the art featured here.</span></div>
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Street View cameras and the way they are customarily handled impose limitations on the vicarious explorer. Good views are not always available for specific areas of interest. On the other hand, when Street View visits a location more than once, the historical record thus provided is an important contribution of the medium, particularly where ephemeral art is concerned.<br />
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Two views of ACDC Lane, one in 2014 and the other in 2016 preserve the art of their times:<br />
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Below are samples of ACDC Lane's displays as seen by Street View:<br />
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Meanwhile, over on Blender Lane, someone wearing colorful shorts engages in a popular early 21st century pastime...</div>
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Melbourne architects have taken note of their surroundings and are creating colorful new additions to the landscape that just might be inspired by the art in nearby alleys. Below is a sample from Bouviere St.</div>
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Street artists are keenly aware that some do not appreciate their surroundings. Artists know their place--they know it as nobody else can! </div>
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(Google Street View algorithms carefully shield the identity of the lady on the right,<br />
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Does Australia host any bird that can actually fly? This Caledonian Lane visitor apparently needed a lift!<br />
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Croft Alley provides Google with a great deal to admire. <a href="http://photographersstreetview.com/">Street View hardware</a> provides us with a unique view of every scene, a few feet above average human height.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/fRGG1S">Please don't feed the Jaguar--anything!</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/YehSZ6">putting out the trash</a></td></tr>
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Melbourne Street Art Part 2 (under construction as of this July 2017 writing) continues our alphabetical street tour with images from Drewery Lane. </div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-69015896480675796162017-06-07T01:57:00.000-04:002018-10-01T16:31:45.652-04:00Valladolid Spain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">I</span>nspired by a flash mob (see <span style="color: #444444; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><a href="https://goo.gl/OkQHAo">https://goo.gl/OkQHAo</a>)</span>, I decided to visit the vicinity where the event unfolded. Intrigued by the fact the organizers had chosen a library for the venue, I began exploring. It was not long before I became pleasantly lost.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">In the vicinity of the library the architecture is modern by European standards. Much of it is pretty generic and bland. Every once in awhile, however there is an inspiring diversion.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For kids, a<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/cBhYzwJ43NH2"> special effort to enliven the world.</a></td></tr>
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Archways and entranceways are notable throughout Valladolid. Here are a few examples:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An arch <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/J4dgFQiRSD92">in full sunshine (Aug 2016)...</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/wnbJfCqzkn72">Shadows</a> add interest, sometimes color...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While some do just as well in <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/6weQoyPx8LL2">reflected light</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every once in awhile there is an entrance that <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/hCL1nus3S1C2">has "potential"</a> ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the other hand we discover entrances that have<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/GCtR91ZJtDE2"> fully realized</a> their potential...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/NiAqAymBXjD2">both outside and in!</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/tK4rwcY2Gxv">Towers emerge</a> from the shadows of the narrow streets.</td></tr>
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As curator of the <a href="http://arnoldgalleries.com/">Arnold Galleries</a> and <a href="http://arnoldtradecards.com/">The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection - 1885</a>, I am always on the lookout for traces of the 19th century and was pleased to find a couple in Valladolid.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/cuiGxZRM1fp">Mercado del Val 1882</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/fFgZLDdh4K92">Lamp post</a></td></tr>
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As a Street View tourists, we do not more than glimpse the virtues of Valladolid. It seems to be a prosperous place with a focus on the future, while it reveals just a tidbit of its history every so often.</div>
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On the way out of town, we pass road cuts that give us a good idea of the geology of the area while passing a road sign that confirms we are indeed leaving Valladolid.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/FAbHFTAFbQM2">road cut #1</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/YLuTqnZ2CoF2">stability?</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We will remember how Google Street View<br />
revealed<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/GTZY2cFYgkG2"> both the old and the new</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sign says we are leaving. Those who installed it could not know that, thanks to<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/dLUKaSaQnfD2">Google Street View</a>, Valladolid's boundaries now encompass the world!</td></tr>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-65596708588053510922017-06-02T11:15:00.000-04:002018-10-01T16:35:29.779-04:00Pamplona, Navarre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A salute to <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/arcsdxfKnkQ2">the possibilities</a> ...</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Suddenly, Pamplona!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A musical performance* transported me to Pamplona. Here's a Google Street View tourist's take on this historic destination. I hadn't planned on visiting, but I'm happy I did!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reserved for you!<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/kHaQLkJCuaF2">Google Street View</a> invites you to visit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Begin your explorations with the <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/eSMfpoLBTD92">Archivo de Navarra</a>.<br />
<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.navarra.es/home_es/Temas/Turismo%2Bocio%2By%2Bcultura/Archivos/Archivos/Archivo%2BGeneral%2Bde%2BNavarra/&prev=search">The Royal Palace of Pamplona</a> was renovated to house the Archives in 2003.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pamplona is the home of <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/YPqBUnHXqrP2">dramatic shadows</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RerhhxAuzX72">Street View was here!</a></td></tr>
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Where Google Street View cameras pass by every few years, it is possible to call up previous views to check on the recent history of a landmark. This is done by clicking in the upper left of the Maps screen,which gives one the capability of sliding from one year to another. Here's what we got at the Banesto location:</div>
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First, the box:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Google Maps, (not here) you can click on the image in the box for a full-screen view.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">The "<span style="background-color: yellow;">Banesto series</span>" follows:</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/xe3NkMAjK4R2">Street View May 2012</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/cXptF5rfjN32">Street View Aug 2014</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/8CSvBH">Street View March 2015</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/eEHM0x">Street View July 2016</a><br />
Banesto was a bank that was renamed, gobbled up, etc.<br />
See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banesto">Wikipedia</a> for further details and current owner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We explore<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/PUiCcPuvRQr">both shadows and reflections</a>....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ok, we're lost! But who cares? On Street View there are <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8277449,-1.5957175,4174a,35y,254.84h,43.97t/data=!3m1!1e3">no dangerous neighborhoods</a>!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/N8tYYXVdQbn">corner</a> of where you're going and where you've been.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/nKjvgFeNVDv">Narrow passageways</a> play with sunlight...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...while local residents play with <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/qWiHExraz4D2">color</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ScLujcUNymL2">Portal</a> to our next adventure!<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2015/09/welcome-to-photographers-street-view.html">Join us</a></b>!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">All images above were derived from Google Street View using Google Picasa.</span></div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-16134608188434487632017-05-22T11:44:00.001-04:002020-03-05T10:37:52.180-05:00Wanamakers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">It's <span style="color: #cc0000;">W</span>anamakers!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... or it was.</span></h3>
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<b style="color: red; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Revised 5 March 2020</b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We start sometime after the beginning, after John Wanamaker began to issue advertising trade cards to publicize his business. Curiosity propels us to investigate....</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"John Wanamaker & Co.<br />
For Boys Clothing<br />
822 Chestnut St."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Based on articles in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wanamaker">Wikipedia</a>, the 822 Chestnut St. Philadelphia PA address carved into the ice above was probably one of several Wanamaker's locations before the business consolidated at a new location in 1910.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wanamaker's in 1876. This may have once been a railroad depot.<br />
By James D. McCabe (Book), engraver unknown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, near if not on the site where Wanamaker's began, another famous (for awhile) business started up.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 1902, the first "Horn & Hardart" <a href="http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/automats-2/">automated cafeteria</a> opened near<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To those accustomed to mall stores with sprawling aisles on a single floor, the multi-story department store seems old-fashioned and just a little inconvenient. Going all the way up to the 9th floor of a store for the children's department would be thought a major inconvenience today. In fact, most 21st century shoppers make online virtual world purchases without ever seeing or experiencing the ambience of any real world store as a destination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the late 19th century, grand entrances of competing merchants beckoned customers to visit for unique buying experiences. Wanamaker's was both unique and innovative. It was the first store in Philadelphia to be electrified. It was the place where the price tag was invented. It was and thankfully still is the location of the world's largest organ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks to Google Street View and YouTube, it's easy to share with you the unique atmosphere of this extraordinary facility.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wanamaker windows reflect Philadelphia City Hall as the <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/juwadyYWNCU2">Google Street View</a><br />
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Before we get enthralled with the famous Wanamaker Organ, may we suggest a side trip to an excellent research site on Wanamakers? Be sure to read the fascinating comment section featuring former employees, and other great memories of this landmark store chain! See</div>
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<a href="http://www.thedepartmentstoremuseum.org/2010/06/john-wanamaker-philadelphia.html#comment-form" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Department Store Museum</span></b></a>.</div>
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<a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDIQ6TgYACITCMjd8aLqg9QCFUtQTgodRBEHtSj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://www.operaphila.org" href="http://www.operaphila.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.operaphila.org</a> -- On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation's "Random Acts of Culture" at Macy's in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ - the world's largest pipe organ - the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community infiltrated the store as shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" at 12 noon, to the delight of surprised shoppers. This event is one of 1,000 "Random Acts of Culture" to be funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation over the next three years. The initiative transports the classical arts out of the concert halls and opera houses and into our communities to enrich our everyday lives. To learn more about this program and view more events, visit <a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDIQ6TgYACITCMjd8aLqg9QCFUtQTgodRBEHtSj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://www.randomactsofculture.org" href="http://www.randomactsofculture.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.randomactsofculture.org</a>. The Opera Company thanks Macy's and the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ (<a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDIQ6TgYACITCMjd8aLqg9QCFUtQTgodRBEHtSj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://www.wanamakerorgan.com" href="http://www.wanamakerorgan.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.wanamakerorgan.com</a>) for their partnership, as well as Organ Music Director Peter Conte and Fred Haas, accompanists; OCP Chorus Master Elizabeth Braden, conductor; and Sound Engineer James R. Stemke. For a complete list of participating choirs and more information, visit <a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDIQ6TgYACITCMjd8aLqg9QCFUtQTgodRBEHtSj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://www.operaphila.org/RAC" href="http://www.operaphila.org/RAC" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.operaphila.org/RAC</a>. This event was planned to coincide with the first day of National Opera Week.<br />
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Where does one start? At the beginning, of course...unless you are confronted with the past and the present simultaneously.</div>
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Google Street View presents you with its most recently photographed material first most of the time. As you follow Street View, however, it does not always stay in the present. It can flip from present to any of its previous images without warning as you click the arrows leading you forward.</div>
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On the <a href="https://goo.gl/UfVpLm">Google Earth map</a> below, the beginning of this Newark series is marked by the red circle and the second point of interest is marked by the large blue arrow. Google Street View cameras went down Market Street for the first time in August of 2007, returning three times in 2012 and again in both 2015 and 2016.</div>
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Newark residents don't seem to be sure what to do with their stock of 19th and early 20th century buildings. Restoration efforts along Market Street are spotty and large areas of newer structures predominate, alternating with those usual vestiges of incomplete urban renewal programs, vacant lots and parking plazas.<br />
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At the start of our journey, we view <span style="background-color: yellow;">renovation on the cheap, version #1, <i>cover it up</i></span>. Below, the vinyl siding has been partially removed (probably storm damage), revealing the former architecture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Partially peeled off by weather, maybe, this exterior finish probably does little to keep water out.<br />
Water leakage problems seem particularly acute around the chimney.<br />
This renovation is poorly designed to preserve the underlying structure & looks tacky.<br />
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As in other cities, "Urban renewal" programs have led to the demolition of many older structures. Expressways and street widening have carved up many of the older neighborhoods, and stretches of vacant land, strange islands of low density population in the midst of a densely populated area, seem to be more the happenstance of poverty, riots and political chicanery than the results of any long-term planning.<br />
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When I first came upon the next notable structure, its image kept coming and going according to the year Google Street View cameras passed by. The image that first caught my attention is below:<br />
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Above is the Google Street View of a substantial hospital building in July 2012. I was struck by the modern, substantial structure and thought how proud the community must have been to have such a facility.<br />
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However, as I clicked to continue down Market Street, the building suddenly vanished, replaced by new construction. Now you see it, now you don't. Very odd for what must have been a medical center of distinction at one time, I thought.<br />
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In the New York City/ New Jersey metropolitan area, however, this is not a unique story. Cash attracts thieves, and in this region, there's lots of cash clustered in the top income brackets and not much at all for the rest of us. So temptation abounds.<br />
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Using a succession of Google Street views from different years, the visual tale is told:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swinging around the block, this <b>June 2012</b> view of the Hospital is from S 11th St. near the corner of 9th Ave. (<a href="https://goo.gl/pGvC3n"><b>Google Street View</b></a>)</td></tr>
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So what happened to bring about this radical change? In 1967, residents rioted. Homes in the neighborhood were burned and sniper fire was directed at the facility. After that trauma, the head of the hospital made off with its assets, stealing not only profits, but doing incalculable harm to the community, eliminating almost a thousand jobs and depriving residents of convenient access to local health care.<br />
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"<a href="http://tfpnj.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-newark-presbyterianunited-hospital.html"><b>The Forgotten History of New Jersey</b></a>" blog elaborates on the history of the hospital, noting that nasty local politicians had as much to do with its demise as the felonious President of the institution itself. The blog author states:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The United Hospital story is laced with corruption and political bullying, so its not a suprise Mr. Divencenzo wanted the buildings gone. These buildings are just more examples of Essex County's blatant and systematic disregard for the historic properties they have been entrusted with. Soon, Essex County will stop obbliterating their history. But that will only be because there is none left to save.</span></blockquote>
Click the link above for the sordid details. Hopefully the technical training facility that replaced the hospital will be a success and bring some prosperity back to the surrounding area.<br />
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Just around the corner from the old hospital/new training center stands this a fairly well-preserved example of an old Newark row house illustrating <span style="background-color: yellow;">renovation on the cheap version #2 <i>paint it</i></span>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://goo.gl/W1gY2P">Google Street View</a>, corner Dickerson & Market St., Aug 2016)<br />
Although each homeowner has done unique renovations, none of them has known quite what to do with the small window on the right-hand side of the 2nd floor. The barred windows and doors indicate the owners do not consider their neighborhood entirely safe. This area was the scene of riots with sniper fire in 1967, so they have good reasons for such barricades.</td></tr>
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Another Google Street View disconnect disappears a building at the corner of S. 7th Street and Market:<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit;">We who live in prospering communities have heard of depopulation. Perhaps we have witnessed neighborhoods in decline. Maybe we've also known gentrification, as parts of our prospering cities change ethnic characteristics and families are forced out due to rising rents or land values.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit;">Soon, of course, we will all become familiar with the phenomenon of climate-induced massive inland migration as rising seas inundate our coastal cities. That is depopulation on a grand scale!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit;">What happens to people when communities "rust?" How does it happen that they gradually fade away, perhaps without any great event or fatal, dramatic crisis to mark their departure? In Brooksburg's case it could have been the simple rerouting of Route 56 (now the Ohio River Scenic Byway). Could it be that Brooksburg is recovering? <b>We have no answers. But we offer these visual clues.</b> </span></div>
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Google cameras shadow a very special window in Brooksburg.<br />
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Our "window on Brooksburg" is brought to us by Google Street View (2009 and 2013) and Mrs. J.M. Bruce, a 19th century resident of the area.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excerpt from "<b><a href="https://goo.gl/0AA7ZN">Summer Time</a>,</b>" an ad booklet published by Lydia E. Pinkham Company.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit;">Brooksburg is not too far from Madison, Indiana, the County Seat for Jefferson County, IN. The 1900 census recorded a population of 149. At that time, Brooksburg had two churches (Baptist and Methodist), a Post Office, a weekly newspaper (the Brooksburg Sun), 3 general stores, a Knights of Pythias building (used as school classroom facility) and a creamery. - source: <a href="http://www.liquisearch.com/brooksburg_indiana/history">Liquisearch</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">By contrast, in 2017 the population is about 80. Two church buildings appear to be well maintained, one a Baptist congregation and the other unidentified, but probably the Methodist church. Google Street View found no operating stores of any kind, no Post Office and no creamery. A number of foundation remains can be seen, one of which has been made into a basketball court & playground.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Below is a <a href="https://goo.gl/YksNNh"><b>Google Earth view of Brooksburg</b></a> with the routes Street View cameras took through the area marked in blue. The how and why of Street View coverage is a mystery to me. (Please comment below or email me if you can explain.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">American <a href="https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk"><b>FactFinder</b></a> and <a href="http://roadsidethoughts.com/in/brooksburg-xx-jefferson-census.htm"><b>Roadside Thoughts</b></a> provide census and other information for Brooksburg. Based on the Street View tour, I question some of the livability assessments made by <a href="http://www.areavibes.com/brooksburg-in/livability/"><b>AreaVibes</b></a> below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">The "crime" rating seems to be particularly suspect, as none of the Brooksburg windows have bars on them, which would be expected in a community with an "F" crime rating.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">The lack of public accommodations, local grocery and public transportation is reflected in the "F" given for "amenities." I suspect there is no municipal water, natural gas or sewer service. While the D+ for "education" results from the lack of any school in Brooksburg, nearby Madison IN has a good public school system, a community college branch and <a href="https://www.hanover.edu/about" style="font-weight: bold;">Hanover College</a>. "Housing" appears to be inexpensive but unavailable. "Employment," of course, does not take into account those who may be operating home businesses (if any).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">"<b>Barely Livable?!</b>" <i>Not by a long stretch</i>, AreaVibes! This beautiful community offers a combination of assets that could be very attractive for those working just 7 miles down the Ohio River Scenic Byway in Madison IN.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">This is a small community. No government census can accurately grasp its spirit. Perhaps some of the Street View photos below, however, can provide a more adequate introduction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Unless otherwise credited, all photos are derived from Google Street View, with links to each location provided in the caption.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fire Department and the two churches appear to be the most prominent<br />
community functions in Brooksburg. (<a href="https://goo.gl/QRtPkS">Google Earth</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/TNWVyF">Milton Township Volunteer Fire Department</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unidentified, probably <a href="https://goo.gl/Q4K6uj">Methodist Church</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/NKRvDL">Brooksburg Baptist Church</a></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At certain times of year<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/GQc6kT"><b>road signs</b></a><br />
disappear. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most intersections have <a href="https://goo.gl/Tt3QqR"><b>no need for crosswalks</b></a>, stop signs or traffic lights.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The streets are generally one lane, paved to keep the dust down.<br />
What a feature! <a href="https://goo.gl/CpsGK7"><b>All the streets are one way--<i>your way</i>!</b></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brooksburg <a href="https://goo.gl/2aZleh"><b>tobacco drying barn</b></a> indicates agriculture may provide some income here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/pgo52c">Nature's decorations</a> are reflected in this dooryard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nicely <a href="https://goo.gl/k4Xced">landscaped garden</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://goo.gl/xs37P3">volunteer colors </a>of Virginia Creeper brighten this facade.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the porches are <b><a href="https://goo.gl/qwln1D">very Victorian</a></b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/y751gS">Porches</a></b> have distinctive features.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/z0IcAQ">Doors are welcoming</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The dog enumerator has <b><a href="https://goo.gl/Cw5DWk">something to do</a></b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <b><a href="https://goo.gl/2nJm83">family grave site</a></b> in town is maintained by residents. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/2T9LdS">Strong foundation walls</a></b> mark the site of a long abandoned structure.</td></tr>
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Somewhere around here, there may be a trace of this old schoolhouse:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">By all appearances, this was <b><a href="https://goo.gl/hxcT6z">once a general store</a></b>, probably one<br />
of the three recorded in the 1900 census.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For those who wish to contemplate all this,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nearby, <b><a href="https://goo.gl/HVI0oe">a barge heads upriver</a></b> on the Ohio towards Brooksburg...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... and the spirit of Mrs. J.M. Bruce looks up from her work to bid us<br />
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0Brooksburg, IN 47250, USA38.7364498 -85.243565838.7302568 -85.2536508 38.742642800000006 -85.2334808tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-76692761981459767842016-12-19T20:00:00.001-05:002016-12-19T20:29:16.211-05:00The Other Side of the Tracks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kansas City MO (Part II)</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/B1QzOX">12th Street Viaduct</a>, March 2015, overlooks the West Bottoms.<br />
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Leaving West Bottoms for higher ground, perhaps by way of the famous 12th Street Viaduct, we are soon in a position to look down on the site of the Union Depot (see part I) and its associated haunted landscapes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overlook at corner of W10th and Kirk Drive<br />
(<a href="https://goo.gl/ifhQ1p">Google Street View</a>, November 2016)</td></tr>
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Heading in the other direction, towards the city center, the view is much different. The approach features the expected architectural flourish or two.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/vvPDvJ">Archway</a>, March 2015</b><br />
<b>(click link for original Google Street View)</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/YlLc26">archway series</a>, October 2016</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/Nme0lo">elaborate grand entrance</a>, November 2016</b></td></tr>
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All of the above examples are things one finds in most urban centers. Reflections, however, are the outstanding unique feature of Kansas City architecture. These are not all carefully planned, as architects cannot predict the future any better than anybody else. Some, however, are calculated to feature or emphasize certain building details at certain times of year or day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/hsPGnS">Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception</a></b>, November 2016</td></tr>
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Out of the shadows comes the light. The golden dome of the <a href="http://www.kcgolddome.org/index2.php">Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception</a> throws some very special light on the cross in November.</div>
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For the casual observer, it can be hard to determine which visual delights are planned and which appear by chance. While the majority may pass by without notice, those of you who pause for a moment to observe your surroundings are in for a special treat. In some cases, you need not even take your eyes off the pavement to experience a unique perspective.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No windows? No problem! Borrow them from your neighbor.<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/pKFeCT">Borrowed windows</a>, October 2016</td></tr>
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For those who do glance upward, however, Kansas City architects have created a special treat.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/jPEkIx">Canyons of creativity</a>, November 2016</b><br />
With Google Street View, you don't "have to be there" to experience visual sensation, you <i style="font-weight: bold;">are </i>there! </td></tr>
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Typical for an American metropolitan center, new buildings reflect their surroundings. Architects guide your eye to their creations, sometimes by showing you the works of others in a new light...or shadow, as with the example below.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/JrNHg0">Shadow play</a>, </b>October 2016<br />
Curiosity at work! Click the link to see if you can find the buildings profiled here.</td></tr>
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Kansas City architects are masters of their craft, as your approach to their creations will attest.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/t1QkNR">Hint of what is to come</a></b>, November 2016<br />
The old West 12th Street Viaduct takes you from West Bottoms' warehouses to this grand entrance to downtown.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/czW2FK">Stop here</a> </b>November 2016<br />
Contemplation suggested. Remember? As a kid you eagerly ran to climb up flights of stairs.<br />
As an adult you react differently. Your playmate stairs are now obstacles.<br />
Time for reflection!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/kVaG7E">Angular feast</a>, </b>November 2016<br />
Light is the focal point. Click the link to savor this one!</td></tr>
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Mirrors not only reflect images, but they also throw light, redirecting it into spaces that might otherwise be featureless shadow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/tgT8bx">Lightfall</a>, </b>November 2016<br />
A waterfall of light descends this building, courtesy of its reflective neighbor.<br />
The effect is pronounced with the low angle of the sun at this time of year.</td></tr>
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There are times when so much is going on that it's hard to keep your mind focused on your daily tasks. When visiting Kansas City on a sunny day, be prepared for surprises. Visual distraction is guaranteed!<br />
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As you explore Kansas City, you will no doubt find a favorite location or two. As far as light play goes, here's a favorite building of mine that does it all.<br />
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The architect did. (UMB Bank)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/9HHfCL">Surprise!</a> </b>October 2016<br />
Are all of these images reflections?<br />
Click the link & sneak around the block to find out!</td></tr>
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This last building does it all. Inspired by an earlier design by architect I.M. Pei, Abend Singleton Associates Inc. (lead architect <b><a href="http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=608005">Stephen Neil Abend</a></b>) received an award for the design of this building. A mere glass box was not enough for this architect. The employer demanded more and the architect delivered nooks and crannies and glass and projections and colored glass and the surprise above. The architect's employer gets the last word (for the time being as I'm looking for more information about all these buildings):</div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0Kansas City, MO, USA39.0997265 -94.5785667000000138.310999 -95.8694602 39.888454 -93.287673200000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-7855866731309936282016-12-18T09:55:00.000-05:002016-12-19T19:07:23.170-05:00Everything's Up-to-Date!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>updated 19 December 2016</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">IN </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Kansas City, MO</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b><br />Welcome!</b> Kansas City welcomes rail passengers in fashion, as it always has. Here is a Street View exploration of the area around the site of one of its elegant former train stations. Join us for this this brief tour and please comment if you can add something of interest!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Published by Ward Bros., Ph. V., Columbus OH<br />
sometime in the early 20th century<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/bottoms">From "Bottoms Up" by Dr. Jason Roe</a> which appeared on the Kansas City Public Library site on Monday, 6 April 2015 comes this excellent brief history of Union Depot and its neighborhood. As you will see, Kansas City MO experienced phenomenal growth in its population during the end of the 19th century:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , sans-serif , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The major drawbacks to Union Depot all stemmed from its location in the West Bottoms. While an excellent place to pick up packaged meat and cattle for shipment to the North and East, the West Bottoms was one of the more unseemly parts of town for passenger traffic. Coming from certain angles, passengers actually had to avoid trains on the tracks. Visitors to the city left the relative comfort of their railroad cars and were greeted with nearly four square blocks of the saloons, gambling centers, billiard halls, tattoo parlors, and brothels that surrounded the depot. The smoke of the coal-fired trains coated nearby buildings with black soot. Traveling from the depot to Quality Hill and Downtown involved a nerve-racking ride on the cable cars of the steep</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , sans-serif , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><a href="http://kchistory.org/u?/Montgomery,7800" style="color: #337ab4; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Ninth Street Incline</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , sans-serif , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">.</span></blockquote>
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To make matters worse, the entire West Bottoms area was prone to flooding. The <a href="http://kchistory.org/u?/Montgomery,5973" style="color: #337ab4; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">1903 flood</a> swamped Union Depot, giving the city an impetus to construct a new and larger depot in an area free of flooding and more convenient for passengers. On October 30, 1914, the new depot, named <a href="http://kchistory.org/u?/Montgomery,1863" style="color: #337ab4; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Union Station</a>, opened to a crowd of 100,000 people. The next day, October 31, the last train passed out of old Union Depot. The building was razed in 1915, and the bawdy area surrounding it quickly vanished."</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Union Avenue has changed in the last 100 years. Here's what <a href="https://goo.gl/BTVeLq"><b>the Depot</b></a> site (lower right to center) looks like in the 21st century:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As can be seen from the <a href="https://goo.gl/BTVeLq"><b>Google view of the area above</b>,</a> there are lots of remains of old structures<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://kcwestbottoms.com/history.htm"><b>"West Bottoms,"</b></a> the Union Depot's neighborhood, stripped of its importance by the abandonment and demolition of the Depot in 1915, evolved in the absence of much of the notorious commerce which had once been part of this flourishing community. Factories and warehouses moved in ... and then moved out. Periodic flooding has taken its toll on any industry that has chosen to locate here. Nobody tells the story of West Bottoms better than <b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjzurGBgfnQAhXpiFQKHSSiB40QFghhMA8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkcdv.tv%2Fbig-muddy-speakers-series%2F2013%2F11_november%2Fdarby-trotter%2F&usg=AFQjCNEajEOC2lcBKlYxOQypU1WDd28FiA&sig2=W_sRSpQBRZl07oKWj-n_Wg">H. Darby Trotter, PhD, whose oral history of the area</a></b> is riveting. Hear the audio<a href="http://kcdv.tv/big-muddy-speakers-series/2013/11_november/darby-trotter/Kansas-City-West-Bottoms-late-1800-Darby-Trotter.mp4"> <b>here</b>.</a></div>
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Finding the site of Union Depot was challenging, as most of the landmark buildings in the Ward Bros.photo above had been wiped out either by the aftermath of a 1903 flood or the second catastrophic flood to hit the area in the 1950s.<br />
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The following series of maps helped me pinpoint the location:<br />
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Four years after the military phase of the Civil War concluded, Kansas City's West Bottoms area looked like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1869 from<a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4164k.pm004280/"> Library of Congress</a> holdings:<br />
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<dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">Ruger, A.</dd><dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">Christy, A. C.</dd><dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">Merchant's Lithographing Company.</dd><dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">Ruger & Stoner.</dd>
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<dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">Madison, Wis., Ruger & Stoner [1869]</dd><dd style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-left: 0px; text-align: start;">A <a href="https://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=39.10448&lon=-94.59756&datum=nad27&zoom=2&map=auto&coord=d&mode=zoomin&size=m">topographic map of the area</a> confirms the bowl shape of the terrain. West Bottoms is a part of the Missouri floodplain:</dd><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The very long Union Depot is at the center of this map. (original from Library of Congress)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/xKXFOO"><b>Holsum</b></a> encouraged you to "add the touch of genius to your meals."</td></tr>
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In 1977 Honeymead acquired Holsum Foods and two years later consolidated margarine production in a new plant in Olathe, Kansas. The margarine operations were supervised by Holsum Foods staff based in Waukesha, Wisconsin. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/44IZ2J">Weathering</a> </b>from a century of rains, storms, floods and baking temperatures<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haunted house enterprises are a common use for some of the warehouses. Here the Google<br />
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West Bottoms' future is uncertain. As the wealth and population of the region has increased, so has interest in this historic district. Periodic flooding, however, will continue and those who invest without paying attention to the history of West Bottoms as they build new structures or renovate the old should be prepared for a loss.</div>
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Meanwhile, on the bluffs around West Bottoms, Kansas City is prospering. The contrast is remarkable! See Part II.</div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"<i>The Little Church That Stood</i>"</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>250 Years</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">30 October 2016 marks the 250th anniversary of a little (by NYC standards) church on Broadway, the last remaining colonial religious structure in the city. Constructed in 1766 as a convenience for "uptown" parishioners, it survived fires that burned the neighborhood in the late 18th century and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers across the street in 2001. President George Washington worshiped there often, no doubt when it was owned by the Church of England, as </span>the "Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)">not incorporated in New York State until 1821</a></b>.<br />
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The Chapel has been renovated more than once, the most recent before the current renovation was completed in the 1960s. The interior shots featured below reflect the 60s renovation's color choices of blue ceilings and pink walls. They will be replaced with white dove and natural cream, colors used in the mid-nineteenth century, which were the earliest colors the color conservationist could find for the interior before the anniversary date.<br />
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Now dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers, this is how the Chapel looked for decades after its construction, when its spire was taller than many surrounding structures: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(print modified from original found on <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/New_York_St._Paul%27s_Chapel_1831.jpg"><b>Wikimedia Commons</b></a>)</td></tr>
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The picture below shows the sanctuary of the Chapel as it was decorated after a 1960's renovation and a post-911 cleanup. The large windows on the right overlook Broadway.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original photo by Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19289028"><b>Wikimedia Commons</b></a></td></tr>
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Over several years, Google Street View (GSV) shows the Chapel exterior and grounds from many angles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Broadway entrance, July 2015 [<a href="https://goo.gl/UiGosy"><b>GSV</b></a>]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the Broadway facade in July 2015 [<b><a href="https://goo.gl/s5whNN">GSV</a></b>]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In October, 2014 [<b><a href="https://goo.gl/HFDMWf">GSV</a></b>] the sun is at just the right angle to show off details of the Broadway facade's colonnade. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google captures the softly lit Church St. entrance to the Chapel in August 2013 [<a href="https://goo.gl/LFR9NZ"><b>GSV</b></a>]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Apr 2009 [<b><a href="https://goo.gl/4yLLM6">GSV</a></b>] Google cameras passed by the side of the Chapel that faced the World Trade Center. The 911 attack filled the entire area with dust and debris. As indicated by the slight focal distortion at the top of the steeple, Google lenses were not as good in 2009 as they are now.</td></tr>
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2009 was a good year for the Chapel. After 8 years of silence, and just one month after Google cameras passed by, the last of the toxic 911 dust was vacuumed from its pipes and the Chapel organ sounded again [<a href="https://youtu.be/Wsj2Z0Vb9QI">YouTube</a> ~2 min. 30 secs.]:</div>
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One of the best photo spreads outside of the views available on Street View is "<b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/75469677@N00/sets/72157623465293193/">Saint Paul's Churchyard</a></b>," which was assembled on Flickr by <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/75469677@N00/">jhouston1956</a></b>.</div>
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If you have the time, here are 2 YouTube tours of the Chapel which I found of interest:</div>
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The first gives you the sounds of New York and a glimpse of the significance of the site to the events of 911:</div>
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The second, without narration, also gives you the ambience of the setting:<br />
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There are other YouTube videos available which you may wish to sample for yourself. After 30 October, there may be some showing the refurbished interior and 911 memorial. Meanwhile, the <b><a href="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM065.htm">New York Architecture site</a></b> is among several that can be found with a Google search that have excellent snapshots of the Chapel.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">updated 12 October 2016</span></i></h2>
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Google <i><span style="color: blue;">Water</span></i> View</h2>
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The many colors of the Hudson River</h3>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Sometime in June 2015, Google sent forth its multiple cameras on a fireboat and voyaged up the Hudson River. A little over a year later, while investigating a trade card for <a href="https://arnoldpostcardcollection.blogspot.com/"><b>The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885</b></a>, I discovered what Google had done. (Occasionally I'm a little slow catching up on the latest Google adventure.)</span></div>
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Familiar landmarks look quite different when viewed from nearby waterways. So it is for the Hudson Valley in NY State. From just north of Albany, down the Hudson with a few gaps, Google cameras captured many moods. I'd like to share some of them with you. Just this once, you can leave the life vest and seasick pills behind!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a brief shore leave, <b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4031674,-73.958391,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2FEFCDebe3xsApw54p50ag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en">Google visits the remains of "Redoubt #7"</a></b> on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Island">Constitution Island</a></b>. A "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoubt">redoubt</a></b>" is a small fortification, usually constructed of earth or stone that provides protection for soldiers outside of an adjacent fort. This one guarded the eastern anchor of "the Great Chain" that American forces deployed across the Hudson to West Point on the other side of the river in order to deny British ships access to the mid and upper Hudson River during the American revolution.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The eastern anchorage of the <b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@41.319473,-73.9817414,3a,75y,90h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smnqitp_wYM7eBdQxeI5HZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en">Bear Mountain Bridge</a></b> at Bear Mountain NY.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "little red lighthouse" nestles beneath the eastern anchorage of the George Washington Bridge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The official name of this lighthouse is "<a href="http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?id=393"><b>Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse</b></a>"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Freedom Tower" via Google Water View in the Hudson River.<br />
My favorite Street View image of this NYC landmark is featured on "<a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2015/11/into-temptation-street-view-hudson.html"><b>Into Temptation: A Hudson Street View Promenade</b></a>."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">This is probably a test, but it could be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_salute"><b>salute</b></a>. Fireboats are frequently used to mark special occasions in this way, as seen below:</span><br />
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-34427863559940519422016-06-24T21:32:00.000-04:002020-02-08T10:38:26.999-05:00Steel Windows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Bethlehem Exhibition<br />
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Once "protected by pistol-packing mamas," Bethlehem Steel was central to the success of the United States in peace and war. As you review the photos below, you will not hear what workers and neighbors described as the "constant booming" of the plant. Companion to many generations, today the pulse of the plant can only be imagined by the scope of its gargantuan local footprint, nine and a half miles long.<br />
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The easiest way to comprehend the impact of Bethlehem Steel is to watch the PBS documentary on its history (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTGiHOZZFU">YouTube</a>, ~1 hr. 20 min.) :<br />
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Local efforts in preservation and restoration were incomplete as of 2011 when many of these Google Street View photos were taken. Much progress transforming the former headquarters facilities of Bethlehem Steel has been made. New tenants and uses are everywhere. Transformation, however, is a tricky deal that never ends. Working with change, rather than resisting change, is always a challenge.<br />
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Here's a flyover of the Bethlehem Steel complex in 2015: <a href="https://youtu.be/_oaBUspO0SE">YouTube</a> (3:30 min.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outsourced from "Flying Above Bethlehem Steel" above,<br />
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Nature calls this process "succession."</td></tr>
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Exploration of similar abandoned Belgian blast furnace</div>
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Photo below is of the upper floor of the former<br />"Central Tool Machine Shop," <span style="background-color: lime;"># <b>178</b> </span>on the map.<br />
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<a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2002-03-11/news/3391351_1_navy-veteran-alice-francis-bethlehem">Charles F. Mohr</a> (retired 1981, died March, 2002) was a supervisor in the central machine tool shop.<br />
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<a href="http://articles.mcall.com/1986-03-16/news/2507929_1_michael-bethlehem-tool">Michael A. Racosky</a> (retired 1960, died 1986) was a machinist and setter in the central machine tool shop. <a href="http://hiring.monster.com/hr/hr-best-practices/recruiting-hiring-advice/job-descriptions/cnc-operator-machinist-job-description-sample.aspx">Monster </a>lists a machinist/setter's duties and required skills in 2016 as:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Plans machining by studying work orders, blueprints, engineering plans, materials, specifications, orthographic drawings, reference planes, locations of surfaces, and machining parameters; interpreting geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T).</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Plans stock inventory by checking stock to determine amount available; anticipating needed stock; placing and expediting orders for stock; verifying receipt of stock.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Programs mills and lathes by entering instructions, including zero and reference points; setting tool registers, offsets, compensation, and conditional switches; calculating requirements, including basic math, geometry, and trigonometry; proving part programs.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sets-up mills and lathes by installing and adjusting three- and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, cams, gears, stops, and stock pushers; indicating vices; tramming heads.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Verifies settings by measuring positions, first-run part, and sample workpieces; adhering to international standards.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Maintains specifications by observing drilling, grooving, and cutting, including turning, facing, knurling and thread chasing operations; taking measurements; detecting malfunctions; troubleshooting processes; adjusting and reprogramming controls; sharpening and replacing worn tools; adhering to quality assurance procedures and processes.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Maintains safe operations by adhering to safety procedures and regulations.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Maintains equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Maintains continuity among work shifts by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Documents actions by completing production and quality logs.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical publications.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">CNC Operator Machinist Skills and Qualifications:</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Conceptual Skills, Process Improvement, Verbal Communication, Functional and Technical Skills, Controls and Instrumentation, Supply Management, Tooling, Coordination, Inventory Control, Attention to Detail, Judgment</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mcall/obituary.aspx?n=richard-h-kleintop&pid=156627116">Richard H. Kleintrop</a> worked as First Floor Foreman in the central machine tool shop for 45 years. Watching his grandson play baseball gave him great joy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126733402">Raymond Howard Hinkle</a> (died 12 July 1971) worked at the central machine tool shop for a number of years.</div>
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The "No. 4 shop" housed many Bethelehem Steel activities. The image shows a part of the building housing "Construction/Air Condit"[ioning?]. Also located within these walls were the Safety Shop and the Bearing Center:</div>
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Listed as "abandoned" on the map above, the function of this building is unknown.</td></tr>
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Everything at a steel plant is on a grand scale.<br />
This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry_crane"><b>gantry crane</b></a> could lift tons and tons of steel products.</td></tr>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0Bethlehem, PA, USA40.6259316 -75.37045790000001940.529518100000004 -75.531819400000018 40.7223451 -75.209096400000021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-24765820905504654522016-06-12T11:57:00.000-04:002019-08-31T17:29:43.805-04:00Restaurants in passing: The Flo-Jean, Port Jervis NY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">updated 31 August 2019</span></b></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pub. by Planned Color Advertising Inc., Stroudsburg PA<br />
Made by Dexter, West Nyack NY"</td></tr>
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Permanence. As a child, I thought everything that was had always been and would always be. It takes a few years to realize that change is life's certificate of authenticity. The bustling railroad towns of Port Jervis and Middletown NY I knew in the 1950s are now just memories, personal experiences shared with fewer and fewer of my contemporaries.<br />
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Sometimes as a consequence of community decline and occasionally due to changes in customer preference or competition, staid old landmark restaurants pass into history. Featured here are a few I have known and some I wish I had known. All have passed into history.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Flo-Jean, Port Jervis NY</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/g7jfY2"><b>Google Earth</b></a> spots the long, rambling Flo-Jean restaurant building between the Delaware River<br />
and Water Street. Throughout its history, the Flo-Jean was both blessed and threatened by its riverside location. This restaurant had an excellent reputation for quality service and good food. In my mind, it never fully took advantage of the river views. On occasion, however, the Delaware became a bit too personal, depositing fresh fish and other aquatic life inside the building.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flo-Jean "Party Room, serving Dinners, Weddings and Banquets for all occasions." (source: post card published by Valence Color Publishers, Canadensis PA. Genuine Natural Color made by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack NY.") I don't remember which of the dining rooms my family ate in, but we always thought of the Flo-Jean as a special family place and favorite destination. Note the green ash trays from the era when smoke-filled dining rooms were the rule. Outside of gas stations and library stacks, nobody had ever heard of non-smoking areas! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Flo-Jean incorporated in its complex the toll house for the once-busy<br />
bridge across the Delaware. The Flo-Jean's "Toll House Bar" displayed<br />
this original sign "to remind many of our older guests of stories of Toll<br />
paying days." (source: postcard by <a href="http://www.glickfamilyfuneralhome.com/notices/John-Valence">Jo[h]n Valence, Stroudsburg PA</a>)</td></tr>
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Here's a look at some of the conveyances listed on the Toll sign:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 wheeled pleasure carriage as seen on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Horse-Drawn-Carriage-Wagon-Buggy-Sleigh-Cart-Antique-/272270688242">eBay listing <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">272270688242 Mikeamie07</span></span></a></td></tr>
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Stage wagon ride (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmeUr7s_ac">YouTube</a> ~3 min.)</div>
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"Once busy" describes the Port Jervis area very well. It was a canal town, then a railroad town and is now bypassed by intercity traffic altogether. At a time when all traffic passed over the Delaware at Port Jervis, the Flo-Jean prospered. Its prosperity continued through various owners during the time when the Erie Railroad's freight traffic was sorted out in the nearby yards.<br />
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As detailed in the remarks below by Thom Marion* [see note at bottom of post], the importance of Port Jervis as a transportation center declined. (Thom corrects my incorrect notion that the Lackawanna was favored over the Erie when the railroads merged.) Interstate traffic that used to pass through town past the Flo-Jean took the new Route 84 bridge over the Delaware. In the 1960s, I boarded one of the last passenger trains from Binghamton through Port Jervis to my home in Middletown NY. </div>
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Water Street, at the Flo-Jean's front door, shows the effects of this transportation shift. Vacant storefronts and detiorating facades are too common. Many buildings have been torn down, including most associated with the Erie Railroad operations. The contemporary picture is brightened by the rehabilitation of the Erie Depot, but the Flo-Jean's demolition was unavoidable. Operating a restaurant that nobody passes by anymore in a decaying, ramshackle complex of haphazardly connected individual buildings occasionally invaded by flood waters is too much of a challenge.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RaBnbDbZH272">Google Street View</a>)<br />
"Toll House<br />
This building, a toll house<br />
for the bridge spanning the<br />
Delaware from 1871-1922,<br />
was incorporated into the<br />
Flo-Jean restaurant in 1929."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Delaware_Bridge"><b>Mid-Delaware bridge</b></a>, this <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/UHJ7Q1nAGhH2"><b>Street View</b></a> shows the Delaware side of the rambling Flo-Jean complex, consisting of many "incorporations." The old toll house building is on the right.<br />
Tolls were collected by the Barrett Bridge Company until 1922.</td></tr>
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Demolition is never a happy occasion, especially for historic landmarks. Here is a clip of the demolition of the Flo-Jean:
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The restored (1986) <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/4fcW8RuTN6u">Erie Depot</a>. Trains passed by to your left. From the historical marker:<br />
"Built in 1892, enlarged in<br />
1912, this building served<br />
as the Delaware Division's<br />
largest station until its<br />
closing in the mid-1970s."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ofh4AgdH7is">Erie Hotel</a> still welcomes patrons next door to the restored Erie Depot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/zY6P18Sb2dB2">the new depot</a><br />
Port Jervis is the northern terminus of Metro-North, which operates commuter service between there and New York City on the southern portion of the old Erie line. It's a long commute, but the Port Jervis area has many attractions as a bedroom community. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Port+Jervis,+NY+12771/@41.3749198,-74.6902122,1876a,20y,247.11h,12.19t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c3363781da374d:0xf0e86de9787a3814!8m2!3d41.3750937!4d-74.692663?hl=en">Google Earth's Port Jervis</a> with areas of interest highlighted.<br />
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The Flo-Jean Restaurant is located at the top center of the Google Earth image above at the intersection of Pike and Water, with the old Erie station at lower left, the new Metro North station lower center and the former Erie roundhouse floor with turntable lower right.</div>
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A few blocks east of the Flo-Jean, Pike Street tunnels under the remaining two of what used to be a dozen or so tracks of the old Erie Railroad on its way to the bridge over the Delaware where the Flo-Jean location at the Water Street intersection used to be prime commercial territory.</div>
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Below are aspects of the Pike Street Tunnel as captured by Google Street View, and the skeleton of a similar underpass for Sleepy Hollow Road further north along the old Erie line.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sturdy architecture, meant to last for ages. Towers of lights illuminated the Erie freight yards as<br />
watchmen kept a careful eye on activities. While the freight yard bustled above, traffic was heavy<br />
on Pike Street as intercity travelers headed for the Delaware bridge on America's famous<br />
east-west artery, Route 6. (<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/5ztv5BECzg52">Google Street View, Oct 2015</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interstate 84 made short work of traffic on Route 6 while rail traffic withered as the federal<br />
government built public rights of way for auto & truck traffic. Compared to the thousands of<br />
miles of private rights of way maintained by rail companies, which paid taxes on them, their<br />
competition, trucking companies using free interstate highways, had an advantage.<br />
(<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/Q8gEikdCxgJ2">Google Street View</a> modified in Picasa)</td></tr>
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Today, the Pike Street freight yard underpass is as a deserted as a Roman ruin. As you can see in the picture above, it's been years since even graffiti artists paid any attention to the walls!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pike Street Tunnel (<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/xjaM7RvLsiv">Street View</a>)</td></tr>
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Remnants of Erie days are imprinted all over Port Jervis. In the late 1950s, when my <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/sets/72157621609806889/">grandfather Diver's</a> employer, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Ontario_and_Western_Railway">New York Ontario and Western railroad</a> collapsed, leaving Middletown NY without one of its major employers, I used to envy Port Jervis residents, who still had a working railroad. I would never have imagined Port Jervis would suffer the same fate, but it's all part of the same process, national infrastructure collapse.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The footprint of the old <a href="http://portjervisny.com/fr-turntable.htm">Erie roundhouse</a> is clearly outlined in this <a href="https://goo.gl/Z8FgLW">Google Earth</a> photo.<br />
As I understand it, <a href="http://minisink.org/rrpjhis.html">the turntable still works</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No. 833 at rest <a href="https://goo.gl/s9SFi6">on the Erie turntable</a> - October, 2015.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Power for the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway is <a href="https://goo.gl/0oXuLi">rusting comfortably</a> within the<br />
footprint of the old Erie Roundhouse. By the way, the <a href="http://minisink.org/rrpjhis.html">Minisink Valley Historical Society</a><br />
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<span class="video-title">4/27/2013: Metro North Port Jervis Line; #75 @ Port Jervis Station; Port Jervis, NY</span>
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On the occasion of the Flo-Jean's demolition in October, 2015 the Times-Herald Record published <a href="http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151029/news/151029161">a summary of the restaurant's history and a series of pictures by Jessica Cohen</a> in which it was noted the present owner, Lynn Wallace Gallo,<br />
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*Due to the demise of Google+, the remarks by Thom Marion were lost. From my email files, I have made a partial recovery as follows:</div>
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"I knew the Erie-Lackawanna in and around Port Jervis, fairly well during
the years leading up to the formation of Conrail, in 1976. Because of
that, I must take issue with the writer of the article linked here.
After the merger of the Erie and Lackawanna railroads, the Erie side,
through Port Jervis remained the primary route for the new company. It
wouldn't be downgraded to secondary status until Conrail.</div>
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"Port Jervis Yard remained viable up until the ex-New Haven, Penn Central bridge at Poughkeepsie...[<a href="http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/pbpj743.Html" target="_blank">suffered a disabling fire</a> and was abandoned]." - Thom Marion<br />
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Much political and corporate shenanigans characterized the demise of the railroad over what is now the <a href="https://www.american-rails.com/poughkeepsie.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park</span></a> at Poughkeepsie:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"All traffic was rerouted over
other lines and crossed the Hudson on the Penn-Central. Castleton Bridge
below Albany. The Lehigh & Hudson River and the Erie-Lackawanna
entered legal complaints about loss of valuable interchange traffic and
this loss helped drive both of them into bankruptcy shortly thereafter.
When Penn-Central went bankrupt, all the various lines were lumped
together into the new unified Consolidated Rail Corporation, better
known as Conrail. As a monopolistic carrier Conrail has shown no
interest in reopening the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route and prefers to pass
on the additional cost of operating via the Castleton Detour to New
England shippers and receivers in the form of large surcharges. In 1982
it remains out of service. Shippers in New England and mine owners in
Pennsylvania have exerted political pressure to get it reopened and
Congress passed legislation in 1978 mandating its repair, modernization,
and reopening and authorizing $9,000,000 to do so. Conrail countered
with new wildly inflated repair estimates and false references to
"iron construction" and "rotting wooden pilings,"
when in fact engineering studies confirm the basically good condition of
its Bessemer Steel structure and all-masonry piers."</i> - <a href="http://academic2.marist.edu/foy/esopus/essays/poughkeepsie_railroad_bridge.htm" target="_blank">Arthur G. Adams</a></span></span> </div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com8Port Jervis, NY 12771, USA41.3750937 -74.69266299999998241.327432200000004 -74.77334399999998 41.4227552 -74.611981999999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-71645678133756592322016-06-01T11:19:00.000-04:002016-06-03T00:41:55.714-04:00Arles, France: Searching for Iris and Sunflowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When Street View guided me down <a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2016/05/west-montgomery-avenue-philadelphia-tour.html">West Montgomery Avenue in Philadelphia</a>, one of the murals I saw was "Sunflower Quilting Bee <b>at Arles</b>." Not long after, I visited the profiles page of one of my Google+ followers and found that the Van Gogh painting "<a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/field-with-flowers-near-arles/lQFzzpeEHU-XxA?hl=en">Field with Flowers <b>Near Arles</b>, 1888</a>" was posted there.<br />
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So of course, I had to go there! Arles traces its history back to the Romans, as <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_202667308"></span>Wikipedia explains<span id="goog_202667309"></span></a>. It was founded by Rome as a retreat for Roman soldiers. The area is host to several Roman ruins, but they are not the only tourist draw. Climate and civic atmosphere combine with history to make <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g187211-Activities-Arles_Bouches_du_Rhone_Provence.html">Arles well worth visiting</a> (Tripadvisor).<br />
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Major tourist destinations can be hard for some of us to find, however. With the aid of Google Maps, I did locate two:</div>
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The Arena at Arles was constructed for the usual bloody purposes of empire by the Romans. It is thought by some who like to think about such things that perhaps local animals, such as bulls, were victimized here (along with humans) instead of more exotic beasts like lions. In any case, the entertainment bill was a never-ending succession of events that featured "amusing" barbarity.<br />
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During the Middle Ages, the Arena was fortified with towers and the arches filled in. A whole town resided inside the Arena's walls. Some of the filled arches can be seen in the upper part of the <a href="https://goo.gl/ewVaKP">Street View</a> above.</div>
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Meanwhile, back in Roman times, if the Arena's sporting features did not entirely fill your spare time, Roman citizens could also explore usually less violent fare at the Arles theater:</div>
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As you can tell from the varied construction of the amphitheater's seats, the theater is not entirely original. The restored facility is used for outdoor concerts today and is suitably equipped with modern lighting, etc.<br />
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If you'd like, you can experience a live performance at the amphitheater via YouTube, or just leave the music playing in the background as you continue:<br />
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Looking for gardens, I entered Arles on Street View from a bridge over the Rhone River. Arles prospered in its early days as a link between Rome and Spain. Bridging the Rhone (which often misbehaves) was a major accomplishment.</div>
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<a href="https://goo.gl/JBCsUu">Google's 9 eyes play tricks on us</a>.</td></tr>
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Arles was heavily bombarded during World War II. Not even these noble lions could prevent the destruction of this bridge:</div>
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The Rhone is lined by man-made dikes to prevent (sometimes successfully) the flooding of Arles. My first thought was, "this is what NYC and other eastern US cities will look like in a few years." The dikes, however, are only effective against occasional high water caused by river flooding. Sea level rise is going to require much more extensive flood control, including pumping stations...before the inevitable mass migration to higher ground.</div>
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[Your grain of salt: Make your plans now. My take on sea level rise is based on geologic features such as the sand hills of South Carolina and the sea stack found hundreds of feet above current sea level in Acadia National Park. Jumping to conclusions and without any critical thought, my prediction is for a relatively fast sea level rise of 250 feet (~76 meters) as various continental glaciers lubricated by meltwater underneath slip into the sea. Head for the hills!]</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It would appear from the height of the <a href="https://goo.gl/37Ndtn">flood walls</a> that the Rhone just manages to squeeze under the<br />
bridge in the background at flood stage. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://goo.gl/Gf2ozm">dike-top promenade</a> is seven steps above street level at this point.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/BPBpKM">Flood gate</a> which can be closed to prevent flooding.</td></tr>
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In the meantime while waiting for the Rhone or perhaps the sea to rise, there appear to be some benefits to a flood wall:</div>
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Leaving the waterfront behind, I followed Street View into the heart of the oldest part of Arles I could find....and you know what happened...again. Lost in a maze! Actually, quite happily so. My aimless explorations revealed some interesting features I might not have seen otherwise.<br />
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6 AM stroll through old Arles</div>
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The architecture in the old city is characterized by uniformity punctuated with tidbits of inspiration. Shutters with peeling paint are often closed, even on occupied buildings. Abandoned structures in this quarter are rare, though I may have missed a few because of their resemblance to occupied structures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/6nPkbU">Google Street View self-portrait (Rue Emile Barrère)</a>: our 9 eyes host passes by<br />
In Arles, Street View used bicycles on some of the narrow streets.</td></tr>
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Within the old quarter of Arles, I did not find any of Van Gogh's gardens or enough sunflowers for a quilting bee. I did find lots of beauty, however.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vines, trees, flowers (and I suppose weeds) all grow well in this sunny Mediterranean climate.<br />
The residents of this building celebrate with a <a href="https://goo.gl/zlGD4r">roof-top pergola</a> in addition to all their vines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a climate good for clothes-drying and<br />
(upper right) <a href="https://goo.gl/llG6tL">"volunteer" plants in crevices</a> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/KYkph4">Doorway gardening</a> is pursued by some residents.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/ZQZk6y">a restrained bouquet -- almost too much</a> of a good thing....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/DktmRW">Sycamore shadows</a><br />
Trees have no room to grow in old Arles' narrow streets, but are found along the Rhone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/7ScqNR">"Boston" Ivy in Arles?</a><br />
Whatever it is, this window will soon be closed<br />
either with shutters or vines!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally! Google Earth found <a href="https://goo.gl/WFq12F">the fields around Arles</a>,<br />
Fields that could be filled with sunflowers or Iris</td></tr>
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Will you be going to Arles sometime soon? Looks like someone will be on the lookout for you!</div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0Arles, France43.676647 4.62777689999995842.940042000000005 3.3368833999999579 44.413252 5.9186703999999581tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-64908856974579378312016-05-24T01:03:00.000-04:002017-08-11T00:39:14.071-04:00West Montgomery Avenue: a Philadelphia Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">updated 10 August 2017</span></i></b></div>
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Lost again! Every street looks the same but none <i>are</i> the same.<br />
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West Montgomery Avenue is of ancient origin (for the States). Many more homes lined the blocks at one time. Who left? Why is anybody still there? Is the story different here than in any large American city in the 21st century?<br />
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Even with 9 eyes, Google cannot give us anything more than clues, leaving the answers to these questions for us to discover. Ethnic differences, often key to urban affairs and usually an integral part of city politics, though very much in play across this landscape, are not always obvious to Google cameras. Most Americans will know what's what and nonetheless detect ethnic neighborhood identities, though not as well as Philadelphia residents themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did somebody padlock <a href="https://goo.gl/8y3hH8">the doorway to change</a>?</td></tr>
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The first part of our route (with detours) will be from Route 13 to 4th street:<br />
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At our point of origin, we are not far from East Park Reservoir, so one might conclude this would be a desirable location. On the other hand, there is a suspicious mound even nearer West Montgomery, which looks like a closed landfill. Real estate values have everything to do with location. <b><a href="https://goo.gl/E8TXsl">The result</a> </b>of unfavorable location, decades of wealth transfer, discrimination and general financial hardship are buildings that look like this in 2016:</div>
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A Google Earth view gives an idea of the general condition of the neighborhood, confirming residents are having a rough go. Pockets of vacant lots, sometimes made into small parks or community gardens, mark locations of homes that have been torn down.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Widespread poverty is an issue here which is reflected in the housing conditions.</td></tr>
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Just a block down Montgomery, however, across the street from some urban gardens, there's evidence people have hope for their community. Creative, talented and with imagination, they envision somewhat different landscapes:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="https://goo.gl/cxpIJ2"><b>A Tribute to Urban Horsemen</b></a>"<br />
mural design: <b><a href="http://slowikstudios.com/contact/">Jason Slowik</a></b>, with lead artists <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-carney-ab444747"><b>Brad Carney</b></a> & <a href="http://opensource.muralarts.org/martinez-johnston/"><b>Keir Johnston</b></a>,<br />
assistant artist <a href="http://seedsgallery.com/artists/charles-barbin/"><b>Charles Barbin</b></a> & Blackwell Center youth contributing<br />
15 Aug 2005, part of the <b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiAjuno9-TMAhWBMRQKHY_6CVMQFggpMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muralarts.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNEZiMb3GH7kpuLLD6hc3sPbGW_xXA&sig2=ybLYA0rTsjiDm9v28TkPPg">City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program</a></b><br />
volunteers for this project included: Aubrey Stever, Elaine Chu, Mary Hall,<br />
Nicole Marshal, Tina Bradford and Zoe Blatt</td></tr>
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The Inquirer/Daily News had further information on this work in <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/A_map_of_the_Iconic_Images_Collection_tour_in_Philadelphia.html?photo_25"> "If These Walls Could Talk" (2011)</a>:</div>
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"<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The design was inspired by the Cowboys and Cowgirls Association's collection of old photos. Adjudicated youth painted a section of the mural after meeting and learning the history of the urban horsemen. They are represented by the young men in white T-shirts.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm a" , "gotham narrow ssm b" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px;">"</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail from "A Tribute to Urban Horsemen" just to right of view above</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another detail. All views derived from <a href="https://goo.gl/cxpIJ2">Google Street View</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many great images from one mural! This is another detail from<br />
"<a href="https://goo.gl/cxpIJ2">A Tribute to Urban Horsemen</a>"</td></tr>
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This is one of several street art masterpieces in Philadelphia. Imagination and talent are found in every neighborhood, impoverished or not. Here are some more samples of Philadelphia murals:</div>
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Beyond Spirit and Truth, lies some original pavement as West Montgomery crosses over the mainline tracks.</div>
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Much of Philadelphia is about bricks. From the pavement to the side of the strange triangular roofless building Montgomery Ave. has a few:<br />
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Just across the tracks, things are looking up for urban art:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="https://goo.gl/K3oxnu"><b>Hearing Our Voices</b></a>" by <a href="http://www.urbanartcommission.org/artists/delia-king/"><b>Delia King</b></a>, inspired by the work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Ringgold"><b>Faith Ringgold</b></a><br />
A gathering of notable black artists, musicians and leaders in other fields <a href="https://goo.gl/K3oxnu"><b>is presented here</b></a> with print too small for Google's 9 Eyes to read in September 2009. Google technology deliberately blurs faces to protect privacy when it detects them. As you can see, the technology is not perfect, as it cannot distguish between real people and painted faces. For a version with faces unblurred and highlights, click<a href="http://www.phillymuralpics.com/photo-galleries-2/strawberry-mansion-north/"> <b>here</b></a>. This is also part of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0ZWFydGdvZXN0b3NjaG9vbHxneDo3OTQyYmVlMDhhZWRjOTcy"><b>Mural Arts Program</b></a>.</td></tr>
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Nearby is another mural,this one on a quilting theme:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.muralarts.org/about/press/village-arts-and-humanities-and-mural-arts-join-forces-restore-iconic-ile-ife-guardian-m"><b>Felix St. Fort</b></a>'s 2007 mural featuring “Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles,” a quilt by Faith Ringgold. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Google's privacy concerns means that faces are blurred.</span><b style="font-size: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sunflower+quilting+bee+at+arles&espv=2&biw=1231&bih=759&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5zemDtObMAhUFMj4KHb8ZBLcQsAQIGw&dpr=1.5">Several clear images are available</a></b><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The best biographical note I could find for Felix St. Fort is sourced from <a href="http://goo.gl/1SLW2o">http://goo.gl/1SLW2o</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"A native Philadelphian, Felix St. Fort received his BFA in Illustration from The University of the Arts in 2002. A gifted teacher, illustrator, photographer and muralist, St. Fort has worked for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program ...as both an assistant and lead artist. St. Fort’s most prominent commission, Lead Muralist for the Philly Painting project—a three-block long commercial corridor revitalization effort envisioned and designed by internationally-renown artists Haas & Hahn—was completed in 2012. St. Fort’s personal work consists of watercolors, acrylics and digital media. He has sold his work in galleries and has also created privately-commissioned pieces."</span></blockquote>
At this point, West Montgomery Avenue is lined with occupied, maintained homes. Some have been renovated to hide the original architecture with more modern facades, but the uniformity of the block is remarkable.<br />
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Variations in brick appear not far down the road:<br />
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In this area of West Montgomery Avenue, many of the buildings sport this archtectural detail, or one similar:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fairly common <a href="https://goo.gl/NvpZy3">19th century urban ornamentation</a>.</td></tr>
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These long rows of homes are known as "Philadelphia Rowhouses." Their unique architecture, guidelines for maintenance (a headache for many an owner) and history are outlined in the <b><a href="http://www.phila.gov/CityPlanning/Initiatives/pdf/rowhousemanual.pdf">Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual</a></b>, an excellent introduction to the style. The <a href="http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/row-houses/">Encyclopedia of Philadelphia</a> also has a fine article on the subject by <a href="http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/amanda-casper/">Amanda Casper</a>.<br />
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In the vicinity of North Bailey Street, poverty and dilapidation return. For a block or two uninhabited buildings are a blight on the area.</div>
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"The Department of Licenses & Inspections<br />
has cleaned & sealed this property."<br />
A thorough cleaning for sure! You can see straight through it now!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/0Yeowm">Not sitting takes practice</a>.<br />
This is just a first attempt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/gMtyln">Could this be the wrong message</a>?<br />
Certainly, it is not the one the Morris Brown AME church on N 25th wants to convey!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Canvas (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9824091,-75.1744922,3a,75y,136.41h,91.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxlyISV0eqJUGV9rE_J-azw!2e0!5s20090901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Google Street View, 2009</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">"<a href="https://goo.gl/pCuaoH">Personal Melody</a>" by <a href="http://opensource.muralarts.org/martinez-johnston/">Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">The right-hand image is a coded version of the written words.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">"Dear World</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">You cannot know where I have formed my history. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">My favorite color is blue. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">I love stars, butterflies make me nervous...wish I had wings. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">I know I can run just like the sun. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">To be able to cook and provide for family and love ones,</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">I stride with pride, vibrant, rich, brilliant on my block. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Still rising from the tainted atmosphere. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">My community will have a different vibe. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Unmovable, unstoppable, do what is possible. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Laugh cry the waterfalls that run deep. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">I know that I'm different but I'll always be me. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">When I rewind, it should be better. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Make sure that all drugs are destroyed. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Let every single mother know I've got their back. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Gratitude towards life that was given. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Some don't survive but we never stop living. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">We are strong. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">We are forever. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">It's not over yet. </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Live in full technicolor...going to set them free!"</span></i></td></tr>
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From N25th to N21st Streets, playgrounds and parks and vacant lots make the remaining rowhouses lonely sentinels of the past. This sort of urban renewal is similar to pulling teeth and has similar results. New buildings look like "false teeth."<br />
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Tearing down structures that could be made habitable is sometimes a necessity. However, Philadelphia may have been among American cities that interpreted "urban renewal" as "bring on the bulldozers" in the 1960s. In 2016, Philadelphia has many <b><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-City-Council-Homeless-Youth-Gym-Domb-Covenant-House-PA-377503511.html">homeless citizens</a>, </b>due to a number of unfortunate circumstances, including a lack of affordable housing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/6gLE1p">Suncatcher: a potential project at 22nd street</a></td></tr>
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Between 21st Street and the Temple University campus, West Montgomery Avenue hosts newer construction. Rowhouse renovation is evident and more is in progress.</div>
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Passing by Temple University on West Montgomery Avenue provides a look at the transformations a university can make to an urban community.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple architects have incorporated some elements seen in rowhouse renovation.<br />
The top of <a href="https://goo.gl/xCkV3o">this building</a> might remind one of the coverings seen concealing old cornices as shown by Street View earlier in this post.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blending of the old and new on the Temple University campus<br />
(<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9800542,-75.1562311,3a,75y,320.3h,100.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCqgLkrQj83Fp3mdl5OeUkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">1810 Liacourus Walk</a>, student services)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/87TbY6"><b>Street View</b></a> captures restored detail on side of the student services building above</td></tr>
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Waiting for us just down the road is perhaps the most imaginative reflection of the spirit of these varied West Montgomery Avenue rowhouse neighborhoods: "<a href="http://theviewatmontgomery.com/"><b>The View at Montgomery</b></a>."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/gr5wHn"><b>Google Street View</b></a> captures trash to treasure<br />
Note the odd angle of the support columns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is that a bow, bay or pop-out window up there?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AWARDS</span></b>:<br />
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<a href="http://www.phillymag.com/property/2015/06/19/urban-land-institute-willard-g-rouse-iii-awards-philadelphia-2015/#7u6ElxhV3P6I0o4G.99">Rouse Award</a> (AIA) Winner 2015<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "nimbus sans l" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">"<a href="http://aiaphiladelphia.org/news/seven-winners-announced-uli-philadelphia-s-second-annual-willard-g-bill-rouse-iii-awards">The View at Montgomery</a> (Philadelphia, PA): This dramatic new 14-story student housing building adjacent to the Temple University campus was developed by The Goldenberg Group and designed by Wallace, Roberts and Todd on the site of the former Wanamaker public school. The building has 238 apartments and street-level retail with energizing modern design that attracts pedestrians and activates the streetscape. Healthy building strategies include sustainable storm water management, and water-efficient landscaping, 30% reduction in water consumption and immersive recycling. Around-the-clock student amenities include study lounges, computer lounges, top-floor Sky Lounge with floor-to-ceiling panoramic views of downtown Philadelphia, fitness pavilion and two acres of open green space, as well as a street-level restaurant sourcing environmentally-friendly ingredients.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "nimbus sans l" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">"About ULI PhiladelphiaThe Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit education and research institute whose mission is to provide responsible leadership in the use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Established in 1936, ULI today has more than 35,000 members around the globe representing the entire spectrum of land use and development disciplines. The Philadelphia District Council encompasses more than 900 members throughout Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, the southern half of New Jersey and the State of Delaware. It is one of the most robust district councils in the country, experiencing strong growth and introducing new initiatives. For more information please visit </span><a href="http://www.philadelphia.uli.org/" style="color: #03b8f0; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;">www.philadelphia.uli.org</a>"<br />
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<a href="http://backstage.worldarchitecturenews.com/wanawards/project/wanamaker-the-view-at-montgomery/?source=sector&selection=longlist">WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS Award Nominee 2014</a>: Colour in Architecture<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"The narrow east and west ends are radiant with full coloured panels, while the longer south and north elevation use colour intentionally on the top and edges to define the white field of the building canvas. Neutral grey corrugated panels, in the form of rectangular boxes, slide around the north and south façade’s white field, creating texture and visual interest. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"In the context of a transitioning once drab neighbourhood, the impactful colour brings a fresh breath of energy and delight. It plays off of Temple University’s red logo, while interspersing shades of magenta and orange to give a unique identity. The colour is also strategic for way-finding. The approach to the building entrance is from the north-east, pulling directly from the heart of the campus. The bright multi-coloured crease at the center of the north façade is a backdrop that funnels your attention to a central crystal-like entrance vestibule, located between a landscaped buffered street and the glassy retail band."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you've followed along on this post you may have observed:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The colors of this building are not <i>just</i> those of Temple University. They are found in Montgomery pavement bricks as well as those weathering on the "drab neighbourhood" (see above quote) walls of Montgomery Avenue buildings. They are among those chosen by local residents for their homes. Their vibrancy reflects the colors seen in the neighborhoods' street art.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Nothing is true in old rowhouses. Floors sag. Window frames are not square. Foundations "settle," resulting in buildings that list a little to one side or the other. The posts on the View remind the observer of these characteristics of many Montgomery Avenue dwellings.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Are those bay windows up there on the View? Perhaps not exactly, but they are excellent representations of this distinctive rowhouse feature.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Where are the murals? The murals are the bands of color. They are surprise accents on the View, just as they are on the surrounding rowhouses.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Architects <a href="http://aiaphiladelphia.org/firm/wallace-roberts-todd"><b>Wallace, Roberts & Todd</b></a> may or may not have had some of these points in mind when their team designed the View on Montgomery Avenue. Buildings, however, are works of art. What you see in them is a product of your experience. As much as an artist attempts to convey this or that, what you see in your world is a product of what you've seen already and what you expect to see. We have seen this building as part of our West Montgomery journey. For us, this context provided insights unique to our experience. But our tour is not over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The View is at the bottom of the Google Earth image below. We are moving toward the top of the image:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The fields and tunnels of Temple have obliterated (yet remembered) blocks of rowhouses. Not until its intersection with 8th Ave. does West Montgomery Avenue rowhouse identity reassurt itself:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Not for long, however, do any of the original rowhouses persist. By this time West Montgomery looks very suburban, with new sidewalks, trees at streetside and only the occasional reinterpretation of rowhouse design:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Yet another change occurs in the eastern blocks of West Montgomery.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Avenue takes a dog leg left to make way for the Honor Foods<br />
operation, then dead ends before resuming briefly.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">East of 6th Street, rowhouses are located mostly on side streets, not on West Montgomery itself:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/CxVGA0"><b>Rowhouses just before arriving at Honor Foods</b></a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beyond Honor, the street has been closed for several years, though traces of old sidewalks remain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Between North 5th and North 2nd Streets, only segments of West Montgomery Avenue remain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <a href="https://goo.gl/BdhH5B"><b>family of shadows</b></a> passes what used to be the intersection of W. Montgomery & N 4th St.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/SXDZTe"><b>easy access fire hydrant</b></a><br />
(hopefully this one is marked as being out of service)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtyknzyhyOc8CLTsTzBZdkIP3w3AOQo46Gr5ERKht1Dtau8HZuomy42gX_GX-Y74vd6hQvbqZHOGsuBkqOFe70IL0385ndhyGIfhdwH4qN16OZpTUwHXK0RweWTCx7dimZxOWK6i8lrY/s1600/You+cant+get+there+from+here.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtyknzyhyOc8CLTsTzBZdkIP3w3AOQo46Gr5ERKht1Dtau8HZuomy42gX_GX-Y74vd6hQvbqZHOGsuBkqOFe70IL0385ndhyGIfhdwH4qN16OZpTUwHXK0RweWTCx7dimZxOWK6i8lrY/s640/You+cant+get+there+from+here.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In this <a href="https://goo.gl/4j5ebN"><b>2009 Google Street View</b></a>, a footpath follows one old sidewalk, while some original brick<br />
paving is exposed on the other side of what used to be West Montgomery Avenue one block east<br />
of Honor Foods (red building in background).</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Philadelphia muralists have been busy at 4th & Montgomery: </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/0tXGbV"><b>original canvas</b></a>, Sept 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="http://www.muralarts.org/collections/projects/personal-renaissance"><b>Personal Renaissance</b></a>" by artist James Burns working with local residents and members of the<br />
recovery community in JEVS Human Services, September 2010. From <a href="https://goo.gl/1U9irX"><b>Google Street View</b></a>.<br />
"By the time this project was finished 1,500 people had worked on it." - <a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/new-livelihoods/painting-the-town-prosperous" style="font-weight: bold;">Yes! Magazine</a><br />
JEVS clients wrote the poetry on the walls led by <a href="http://aalbc.com/authors/ursula.htm"><b>Ursula Rucker, spoken words artist</b></a>.<br />
For photos showing the creation of this mural, see "2010" on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/James-Burns-112796774890/photos"><b>James Burns' Facebook pages</b></a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Are we there yet? Almost, patient friend. West Montgomery is broken up by commercial operations or just plain abandoned here for a few blocks, but it resumes for several blocks again at North 2nd Street.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">W. Montgomery on <a href="https://goo.gl/6TZPA5">Google</a>,<br />
looking east from JEVS</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The remaining blocks of West Montgomery feature rowhouses mostly on side streets:</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/CI9Czt">West Montgomery at Mutter St.</a>: as beautiful a stretch of rowhouses as you'll find anywhere!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Residents seem to be optomistic about the future here, as evidenced by the following transformation:</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/BbnB7c"><b>Google Street View 2011</b></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.buzzcafephilly.com/about"><b>Buzz Cafe</b></a> makes an appearance. (Google Street View 2014)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">After all this history,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">and all this art,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">can you solve our mystery?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">Is it horse or cart?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">Some will know</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">what others guess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">You'll know more </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">and others, less.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">Beauty 'tis,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">what's round the bend</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">could be the start</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">which is</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">the end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">-<i>Wretched Poet</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kensingtoncapa.wix.com/kcapa">Kensington High School for the Performing Arts</a> via <a href="https://goo.gl/4j2nwC">Google Street View</a><br />
Electric Lighting & Daylighting Design: David Nelson & Associates<br />
Architect: SMP Architects<br />
Completed: 2010<br />
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com3W Montgomery Ave, Philadelphia, PA, USA39.980633999999988 -75.16079839.931964999999991 -75.241479 40.029302999999985 -75.080117tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-15155188093333957952016-04-15T11:45:00.004-04:002016-05-05T01:01:55.966-04:009 on 5: Field Trip No. 1, Herkimer NY west <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Herkimer NY West</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">updated 1 May 2016</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://goo.gl/FHkFwa">Herkimer skies</a> d</b>isplay cirrus clouds overhead with more cirrus underlain with<br />
cumulus in the background. Try your hand at <a href="http://www.clouds-online.com/index.htm"><b>cloud identification</b></a>. It's fun!<br />
Would you agree these are <a href="http://www.clouds-online.com/cloud_atlas/cirrus/cirrus.htm"><b>cirrus duplicatus</b></a>?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/AHctrw">Northeastern birds tell the season</a>. The <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/id">starlings</a> are gathering in flocks.<br />
Must be fall!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/ms00Az">The Rocky Gates</a><br />
an old Sugar Maple graces the entrance to St. Mary's Cemetery along Route 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/TRB6FY">Monument to years of hard work</a>, a silo is all that<br />
remains of a once busy Herkimer dairy farm.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quiet day on the <a href="https://goo.gl/1DaSdG">NYS Barge Canal, Lock #19</a>.<br />
Notice the flood control structure at 2 o'clock, on your right. This is new construction. <a href="http://www.tug44.org/erie.canal/lock-19/">Tug 44's</a> web page provides close-up photos of these features.</td></tr>
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<b>Teachers!</b> This is an opportunity for you to use Google Earth 3d to your advantage in the classroom. The basics of canal design can be demonstrated by looking at these satellite views of Lock 19 and its vicinity.</div>
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In the view above, the camera is looking west. Water flow is from right to left and from the top to bottom. How do you know that? (Your students may ask.) Look for the white of water flowing through the lock gates near the center of the picture and the white water flowing over the flood control dam where Sterling Creek joins the canal.<br />
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The following videos give a basic introduction to canal operation and a quick time laps video of going through <a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2016/03/9-on-5-field-trip-no1-albany-to-utica.html#">Lock #17, which we visited earlier on this field trip</a>:<br />
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How Canals Work (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfWyBz5bHj8">YouTube</a>: 1 min.)</div>
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Think piloting a vessel through a lock or canal is easy? Everything takes practice, as the two videos below illustrate:<br />
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How it's done! (in French)</div>
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Why bother spending money to build a dam at the mouth of Sterling Creek? The object, it would seem from the geological evidence you can gather via Google Earth, is to prevent flood damage to the canal and its structures. What geological evidence? Let's take a look.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flowing right to left, <a href="https://goo.gl/Hl0NO0">Sterling Creek approaches the Canal</a>. Notice the creek is a dark wavy<br />
ribbon against a telltale gray background. This photo shows Sterling at low water, with the<br />
channel meandering back and forth across--guess what--a floodplain! The plain is very noticeable<br />
because the floods are frequent enough to prevent plants from growing very much before they are washed away. The gray marks the width of the stream in flood compared to what you see here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the foreground, just beneath the water, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock"><b>bedrock</b></a>! <a href="https://goo.gl/rgI6ep"><b>Sterling Creek's flooding has exposed a layer of solid shale</b></a> (?) beneath ten feet or so of assorted boulders, soil, etc. known as <a href="http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/limpermuseum/students/till.html"><b>glacial till</b></a>. The Creek has carved out both banks. Can you imagine its power in flood! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marked by a Google directional arrow,<a href="https://goo.gl/cPwRw2"><b> a large tree has come to rest</b></a>, perhaps miles from its<br />
original upstream location on Sterling Creek. The plants growing in the gravel give a clue<br />
as to the length of time between floods. My guess is every two or three years, as they look like mostly annuals, though I do see some more substantial small shrubs and trees in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even way upstream, the power of <a href="https://goo.gl/2cK7vk"><b>Sterling Creek</b></a> is shown by the dozen or so uprooted trees<br />
left by the last flood on this gravel patch in the middle of what must be a very impressive<br />
Sterling River when it is in flood.</td></tr>
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Ah! The beauty of atmosphere! Photo processing has brought out a hint of blue to the shadows on the photo above. Daytime shadows are not pure black. They reflect the color of the sky. In this shot, there's a blue tint to the stream in spots, too. On Mars, you probably noticed from the <a href="http://mars.nasa.gov/imgs/2016/03/mars-rover-curiosity-sandstone-nodule-PIA20324-full.jpg">NASA photos</a> that shadows have another color. There are no black shadows on Mars, either!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A historical marker confirms that <a href="https://goo.gl/ysdfe3">this is the Palatine German Frame House</a> as listed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_German_Frame_House"><b>in Wikipedia</b></a>.</td></tr>
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Thanks to the kind assistance of the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyhchs/index.html">Herkimer County Historical Society</a>, the following additional information has been obtained:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior shots of the Palatine German Frame House were printed as part of a sales brochure published by <b><a href="http://www.robdiedrichassoc.com/">Century 21, Rob Diedrich Associates, Mohawk NY</a>. Although this property is <i>not for sale</i> at this time, </b>similar fine properties can be found by <a href="http://www.robdiedrichassoc.com/"><b>contacting this local realtor</b></a>.</td></tr>
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Sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places usually have photos associated with their entry. Below is the listing and the illustrations that accompanied the original application:</div>
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4217 NY 5 , Herkimer </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Historic Significance: </td><td valign="top">Architecture/Engineering, Event </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Architectural Style: </td><td valign="top">Colonial </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Area of Significance: </td><td valign="top">Exploration/Settlement, Architecture </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Period of Significance: </td><td valign="top">1800-1824, 1750-1799 </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Owner: </td><td valign="top"><b>Local</b> </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Historic Function: </td><td valign="top">Domestic </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Historic Sub-function: </td><td valign="top">Single Dwelling </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Current Function: </td><td valign="top">Domestic </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Current Sub-function: </td><td valign="top">Single Dwelling </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.uticaod.com/">Utica Observer-Dispatch</a>, 4 Aug 2003</td></tr>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caboose">caboose</a> was a distinct type of rail car that used to mark the end of every freight train. Made obsolete by advances in technology near the end of the 20th century, in 2016 they can be found rotting on sidings or repurposed for other uses...</div>
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The Vanishing Caboose<br />
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...unless you take a trip a few hundred miles south to Strasburg PA. There you will find a whole motel full of cabooses you can stay overnight in, a rail museum and other sites of interest to railfans.</div>
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The video below briefly tours a motel made up of cabooses from a great variety of American railroads.</div>
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A drive through the <a href="http://www.redcaboosemotel.com/"><b>Red Caboose Motel</b></a><br />
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From <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKkhMBALHI"><b>YouTube</b></a>: ~2min.<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/100883477186340357115/posts"><b>Andrew Falconer</b></a> tours a restored caboose<br />
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Lightgone, cowsgone, doorgone, with siding deteriorating, a barn with an unusually<br />
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Utica marsh is no exception.<br />
Picasa brings out the colors of this <a href="https://goo.gl/zLHnU1"><b>9 eyes shot from Route 5</b></a> in October 2015. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purple loostrife marks an earlier pass of 9 eyes.<br />
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Google Earth's satellite view of the Utica Marsh vicinity reveals many interesting features:<br />
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Bisected by a railroad and a former railroad siding, the Utica Marsh is on your right.<br />
The light blue on <a href="https://goo.gl/IxgUJt"><b>this Google Earth view</b></a> marks roads on which Google Street Views are available.</td></tr>
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This area has an extraordinarily fascinating geology. Aside from the Marsh itself, the Mohawk River beautifully illustrates characteristics of <a href="https://fvcgeography.wordpress.com/physical/rivers/"><b>a river in "old age,"</b></a> meandering across a flat post-glacial plain. The scars of former river channels include among them <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbow_lake"><b>an "oxbow" lake</b></a> on the left. As a whole, the picture shouts back to the observer, "water, water, everywhere!"</div>
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It appears from the Google Earth view that the Marsh had a more circular shape before it was penetrated by canal, railroad and highway construction. My guess is that the marsh is what remains of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_(landform)"><b>"kettle" lake</b></a> formed by the continental glacier when a huge landlocked iceberg was left behind by the retreating glacier. This mammoth chunk of ice buried in the glacial till eventually melted, leaving a hollow filled with glacial meltwater--a lake. Since its formation, the lake has been filled with sediment, both natural and man-made.</div>
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But that's only a guess. You can read more about the Utica Marsh on the <a href="http://ij-ccf.org/index.html"><b>Utica Marsh Association home page</b></a> or the <a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/9323.html"><b>NYS DEC page featuring the Marsh</b></a>.</div>
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One of the most obvious needs for canal construction is to eliminate rapids that would otherwise prohibit the passage of boats. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0934226,-75.2423001,2824a,20y,41t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en"><b>Google Earth</b></a> demonstrates another advantage. The NYS Canal System here parallels the NYS Thruway in a straight, businesslike line. Can you imagine the time the Canal saved over boats navigating up the wandering Mohawk River! </div>
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I got lost in Utica. Just trying to follow Route 5 proved to be a great challenge for me. Either I missed much of what there is to see along 5 in Utica, or my head got lost in the clouds, of which there are plenty in central New York southeast of the Great Lakes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July Cumulus clouds over the NYS Canal System <b><a href="https://goo.gl/OvWkZ7">in Utica, 2011</a> </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same stretch of <a href="https://goo.gl/r0gajt"><b>canal at North Genesee St</b></a>., Utica in November 2015.<br />
Lowering stratus could mean an approaching cold front and the area's first lake effect snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/J7aMBq"><b>Fields of corn</b></a> are seen frequently along Route5. Although nothing to compare to the giant<br />
fields in Iowa, the alluvial soils in particular, sometimes mixed with glacial till, provide<br />
adequate nutrients for a substantial crop. The history of corn is fascinating. Turns out it is<br />
<a href="http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history.shtml"><b>derived from grass</b></a> long before the European colonization of the Americas.<br />
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<b style="font-size: medium;">Teachers! </b><span style="font-size: small;">The brief video below is a most informative and easily understood explanation of the origin of corn. HHMI Biointeractive provides additional resources for classroom use. Follow the links below for additional information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;"><b>Popped Secret: the Mysterious Origin of Corn</b></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">a film (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBuYUb_mFXA"><b>YouTube</b></a>: ~18 min.) by</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.daysedge.com/"><b>Day's Edge Productions</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Produced, directed, written & edited by</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">film guide, student quiz & educator materials are available <b><a href="http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/film-guide-popped-secret-mysterious-origin-corn">here</a></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/AoN1MJ"><b>The Tin Man makes an appearance</b></a> at<br />
Just Like Grandma's, Sept 2013,<br />
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This barn is of typical construction. The prow over the double door probably once had a<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The future looks uncertain for <a href="https://goo.gl/GmB7zn"><b>this distinctive Vernon building on Route 5</b></a>.<br />
The storefront may have been altered from the original more than once.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Either deliberately or through weathering, these shutters seem to have arrived at<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">A volunteer at the </span><a href="http://www.oneidacountyhistory.org/" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><b>Oneida County Historical Society</b></a><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> has kindly provided further information about the building above and its hitching post (below).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"During the 50's thru the mid 70's,the building was owned by Frank P. Sansone. It was known as " Sansone's" and was a men's clothing store...a very classy store. They sold Jumping Jack men's shoes. Their advertisement read: where you find the best selection of men's suits, sports coats and slacks in central New York...tailoring done here to fit any man." Their advertisement was also attached by the phrase "by the Hitching Post." The hitching post is still in the front of the store. In the town where I live, I have found 3 hitching posts - same thing, so I cannot verify that they are original - or that some company went around selling them because they were attractive items.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"...There might be occupied apartments above the store, but you are correct to assume the building is not kept well. I am not positive there is nothing on the first floor but there was a clock in the window that was running [purple] Mr. Sansone died in 2004. He established this business in 1947.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"There was one article in the Rome newspaper that stated: "the Vernon Bank was established in 1839, ten years after the village [of Vernon] came to be by Salmon P. Case. In one corner of his store[now the Frank P. Sansone] he placed an iron safe in the wall and here business was carried on by the 'Vernon Bank.' Later in the year, the present bank was built and in 1865, it became known as 'The Bank of Vernon.'"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A month's <a href="https://goo.gl/PfSxnf"><b>supply of seasoned firewood</b></a> is ready for the fireplace.<br />
If not used soon, it will be compost.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/xiFXXq"><b>Unusual church architecture</b></a> for this region...<br />
<a href="http://www.unyumc.org/resources/clergy/frank-loan"><b>United Methodist Church, Vernon NY</b></a></td></tr>
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Once again the volunteer at the <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.oneidacountyhistory.org/" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Oneida County Historical Society</a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"> </span>comes through:</span></div>
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"...I knocked on the door of the nearest house located to that stone post. I noticed an additional stone [cement] about 20ft away but this one had a pointed top. This narrower post had a ring and chain still on it which indicates to me that it might have been part of a gate. Also in the distant opposite corner was a cemetery. The owner was gracious in showing me the cemetery and the following stuff I found on the Internet. The cemetery had a large iron fence surrounding it - two tombstones inside. "Charles J. DeFerriere 1804 - 1890" and Angel DeFerriere 1774-1853 and his wife Polly."<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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"This property was...owned by DeFerriere and was part of the Oneida Indian reservation. DeFerriere was born in 1769 to a family of French nobility under the reign of Louis XVI. During the turbulence of revolutionary France, DeFerriere and a companion fled to Holland in 1792. They were introduced to some men who belonged to the Holland Land Company, who suggested that DeFerriere and his companion try their fortunes in the U.S. DeFerrier sailed for New York, where he met Col. John Lincklaen and traveled with him to Cazenovia. [Cazenovia is further on down the line on Rte 20 and the name Lincklaen is well known in that present day village.]<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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"DeFerriere was a surveyor; eventually married Polly Dennie and settled in Madison County where he built a tavern [that the lady said was located across the road from her-completely gone now. She also mentioned there was a murder in the cellar of that tavern. I didn't have time to investigate further.]<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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"Polly Dennie [Denny] was the daughter of a prominent family in the region - her mother was an Oneida Indian; her father was French origin. They raised a family of five children. DeFerriere died in 1832 and his cemetery is not listed in any place that I could find.<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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"The post that you showed me a picture of was the only one like it on the property which has since been divided into plots of land and sold.<br />
It is located quite near the highway, but highways change. There is the Cowaselor Creek nearby. It is also on a crest of a hill - called Deadman's Hill - the lady told me that many a carriage had accidents on this hill because it was much steeper in the old days. Our bushes & trees have not blossomed yet, so it was easy to find. My supposition is that it was one of the entrances to the property.<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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"Somewhere in the area is another house [I didn't know this until I got home] It is called the DeFerriere House and is on the National Register of Historic Places [in 2007] It is a 1 and a half story, frame Greek Revival home."</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://goo.gl/Twnuj5"><b>DeFerriere Cottage</b></a> is framed by Sugar Maples and Norway Spruce. Though it is on the National Register of Historic Places, it is private property. Winter is the only season this home can easily be seen by passing motorists. The residence is occupied and is not open to the public. The owner is using personal funds to maintain and restore this property. Please respect their right to privacy if you happen to drive by. As with all National Register listings, ample documentation and photos is provided as part of the original application for listing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This rear view from the Register of Historic Places application illustrates some of the unique features of this residence. Contrary to appearances when viewed from the front or sides, the building is not a square of uniform height, but a U with two wings that have shed roofs. Behind a pair of very plain doors on your left in this photo is the carriage barn.</td></tr>
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Excerpts from the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64CAzEJ0OUuUGV1U09WSU11ZE0/view?usp=sharing"><b>original application for listing</b></a> provide additional information about the contrast between the "public" and "private" faces of this cottage. The main DeFerriere residence was across the street and was torn down decades ago.</div>
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[<i>New York data for the National Register has not been completely digitized. The PDF file linked above is a low-quality scan I made from a print-out. Accessing New York records from the Register itself will hopefully be operational sometime soon</i>.]</div>
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">National Register Information System ID:</b></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">07000097</td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Applicable Criteria:</b></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING</td></tr>
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Periods Of Significance:</b></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1825-1849<br />
1850-1874<br />
1875-1899<br />
1900-1924<br />
1925-1949<br />
1950-1974</td></tr>
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">File Size (bytes):</b></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">22151</td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Date Published:</b></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3/1/2007</td></tr>
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National Register of Historic Places</div>
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State: New York</div>
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County: Madison County</div>
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Oneida ; 2089 Genesee St.</div>
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NEW YORK ; Madison ; Oneida</div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-26202399099621353002016-04-11T11:20:00.000-04:002016-04-22T21:06:14.708-04:00Good grief. Imperfection!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7095161,-74.0008375,3a,90y,215.12h,109t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scmJKqRJ_Geu4R74ZV-rzJA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en"><b>Google Street View, June 2011</b></a><br />
(former<b> <a href="http://thecavewinestorage.blogspot.com/2014/05/wine-and-champagne-storage-under.html">wine storage vaults under Brooklyn Bridge</a></b>--now vacant NYC property)</td></tr>
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Ye olde (<i>very</i> olde) imperfect photographer here! After all these decades I've finally noticed that nobody sees my world precisely the way I see it. After all, I have two advantages, poor eyesight and abundant ignorance of my surroundings. Can you beat that?!<br />
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That is why I have been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of some of my "weaker" photographic efforts and disappointed that what I consider my "triumphs" are ignored. The intended message is not always the message received, it seems.<br />
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For example, one of the two following photos was hailed as a "masterpiece" but has not been very popular. The other was an experiment that received many likes in spite of my opinion that it could have been better. Can you tell which was which?<br />
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<b>WARNING</b>: <i>The author is about to indulge in advice-giving, a hazardous practice for all concerned, particularly for those who think the advice is good. </i><b>Skip the next two paragraphs</b>.<br />
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Tackling imperfection is what most photographers do. Accepting imperfection comes to most people, if ever, after a good deal of life experience. If one were to suggest to most people that their goal in life should be to embrace imperfection rather than achieve perfection, one would probably be thought of as just a tad deranged. (Many of us already perceived that way of course, need not be concerned. Just go for it.)<br />
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For some of us, accepting imperfection is just about as difficult as accepting death itself--or the death of someone close to us.<br />
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To recover from our hard-wired drive for perfection something daring must be done. Break the rules! Use a cheap fixed-focus camera. Maybe a pin-hole camera. Experiment! There's no need to be bashful. Put your creations before the public without reservation--before they're "finished." In short, <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="color: purple;">play</span></b>!</span> Pay attention to friendly critics. Ignore the trolls.<br />
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If it's not fun, take a break. For the time being at least, you probably should be doing something else. (If you lack ideas for alternative activities, friends and especially family are usually good at telling you what you <i>really should </i>be doing!<br />
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Here's the way somebody else puts it. Though you might be interested in the entire presentation, the theme is well illustrated by the story related in the first 5 minutes:</div>
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Tara Brach, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekHwMvjIubQ">YouTube</a> ~55 min.</div>
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"Relating Wisely with Imperfection"</div>
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Google's Street View cameras are improving. The contrast between the blurry first images captured in 2007 or 2008 and those produced in 2015 is dramatic. Google's nine eyes in 2016 are better coordinated to provide a focused look at the landscape. Roadside signs can actually be read!<br />
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Additional fine tuning by Google is anticipated, as the current equipment still results in double images, blurry spots (other than deliberately blurred faces) broken straight lines and other (oh dear) imperfections. If you travel down a single road for a distance, you're likely to encounter the jarring experience of switching from new to old footage and back again. Crossing the bridge at Palatine Bridge NY provides one example. Start <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9109452,-74.5715003,3a,75y,141.41h,76.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFdLjplpqqho29gfcXtO98A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en"><b>here</b></a>. The bridge is your next right.<br />
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Google's nine eyes have much yet to discover. While metropolitan streets have been photographed many times since 2007, offering the derivative photographer some choices of sun angle, etc., some rural roads have <i>never</i> been photographed. As of early 2016, no railroad footage exists, though it would seem not too complicated for Google to execute such a program.<br />
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Hmm...did I mention railroads? My personal experience with photography goes back to my grandfather, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/sets/72157621609806889/"><b>DeForest ("Pat") Diver</b></a>, whose entire basement was the storage area for glass negatives, dangerous chemicals and prints. It was amazing down there, but somewhat spooky, too, for a 7-year-old! There was even a coal bin for the big coal-fired furnace that used to heat the home. My grandfather's photos are part of the Cornell University Library collection in Ithaca NY. A few years ago several were digitized and put on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/sets/72157621609806889/"><b>Flickr</b></a>.<br />
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Howard Diver, my father, was also a photographer. His darkroom was our kitchen counter. Every year a family portrait was taken, sometimes under protest. I no longer remember why the initial photo was considered such a chore, but the photo would be followed by burning "Seasons Greetings" or similar onto the portrait after adjusting exposure, focus, etc.<br />
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Father used his father's Speed Graphic with a variety of lenses and filters. He knew all about aperture settings and used a light meter to get correct exposure. Considering his high degree of skill, he was extremely modest and the annual family card was his only public photographic endeavor except for several creative photo ads he designed for his employer, The Middletown Savings Bank in Middletown NY. The ads appeared in the local newspaper, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjMqdv7mIPMAhUM5SYKHRTfCwEQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recordonline.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNG4-LZ7ys7MY12v7pu_MbiKfw2vOw&sig2=EVmG0ttiJPnIBT-fYhmbJQ&bvm=bv.119028448,d.eWE">The Times Herald Record</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">22 September 1959 My sister and I were happy to quit!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18 May 1960 starring our cat ""Pinky" </td></tr>
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During my father's time, few people developed their own color photos. Processing black & white prints at home was complicated enough! As I recall, the enlarger focused the image on the paper. The light-sensitive paper was then dunked in developer. Once the image darkened the desired amount, it was removed from the bath of developer to a shallow pan full of fixer, which stopped the developer's chemical reaction. From fixer, the print was washed in plain water and then dried. This laborious process was repeated for each print. All processing was done under red light to avoid darkening the light-sensitive paper. The chemicals stank.<br />
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In my time, the first technical changes in the art of photography introduced advanced film cameras that could handle color. Color slides and color prints became common. The single lens reflex was the camera of choice. Our family would go next door to see beautiful slide shows projected on a big screen. Whoopee! That was an impressive display!<br />
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Kodak and Polaroid soon realized there were a lot of us who couldn't be bothered with all the settings of a single lens reflex, no matter how crisp the results. They also realized that waiting several days for pictures to be commercially developed tried our patience. So Polaroid invented the instant camera and Kodak brought their Instamatic line on board, which had fixed focus and an easy loading film cartridge instead of roll film.<br />
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The Kodak Instamatic 300 marked my entry into photography. There were a couple of choices of film. Shutter speed was slower on the flash setting. (I'm not sure this was a "setting." Ye olde memory is as foggy as some of the prints. It may have been automatic.) This was the camera I used when I was a Ranger Naturalist at Acadia National Park in the summer of 1968:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The originals are slides used in lectures delivered at Blackwoods and Sewall campsites.<br />
Scanning the originals introduced additional imperfections.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1968 June solstice, antique car sunrise rally on Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park<br />
I covered the flash on my Instamatic 300 with my finger and took a personal favorite.<br />
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The digital era opened lots of opportunities for all of us, especially folks like me who just want results and don't really care much for technological details. I have played the megapixel game through a series of cameras and have found to my dismay that I find carrying baggage--even good expensive baggage--a chore. The technology has evolved so fast I have not had time to become as well-acquainted with any of my digital cameras as I was with my old film cameras, especially that dumb Instamatic 300!<br />
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I used Photoshop and the latest printers to produce enlargements of some of my shots while working in Mann Library at Cornell.<br />
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Great job and a great wall for my experiments with the plotter!<br />
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Yet, I don't much like Photoshop. Similar to dedicated word processing software, Photoshop is built to do everything. Those whose goals are modest must learn to negotiate complexity to achieve simple results. Tedious and boring! I'm sure most of my work might have benefitted by additional tweaking in Photoshop, but I did not have the patience and time to become a Photoshop expert so I moved on. As you may know from elsewhere on my blogs, for the moment I prefer Google's Picasa program which was (just my luck) discontinued shortly after I became at ease using it.<br />
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Fortunately, just about the time I retired from Mann Library, there was yet another revolution in photography. Apple invented cell phone obsolescence! One of the things that keeps cell phone sales up year after year in the early 21st century is the improvement in cell phone cameras. No longer does one have to have a movie camera here and a still camera there and a phone ringing into an answering machine at one's residence. You can have it all here, right in your pocket available not only to capture those ephemeral shots but to transmit them instantly to lots of folks who would rather not see them! Temptation beckons....</div>
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Suddenly the number of photographers has multiplied exponentially.</div>
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Not so fast. Maybe not. The number of <i>images</i> being exchanged has increased, not necessarily the number of people who pay detailed attention to their content or composition. Good photography, no matter what apparatus is used, takes practice, imagination and attention to that little bit of imperfection that many people ignore on their daily rounds.</div>
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Which brings us back to Google Street View. Only Google knows why Street View was developed or what plans the company has for it in the future. Most people use Street View as a navigational aid. Able-bodied travelers negotiate their world, phones & cameras in hand, experiencing the world first-hand and in person. There's no substitute for that. The phenomenal images that result are found in <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111083817314332790896"><b>one of my favorite Google Communities</b></a>.<br />
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Some of us, however, have discovered another option. We travel the real world virtually, poking around see what Google records out of the corners of its eyes.<br />
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<a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2015/09/welcome-to-photographers-street-view.html">Photographers Street View</a> is a collection of what I have discovered on Street View. I'm sure there will be much more to come--from me and you and Google, too. Enjoy!</div>
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Jeff Diverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203487553778938951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588103396131203001.post-12276544323813104032016-03-26T20:37:00.000-04:002016-04-01T01:01:39.443-04:00In Passing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just passing through.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The <a href="http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/wagner.htm">Wagner Palace Car Company</a> was founded by Webster Wallace in 1858. It had a long history of both competition and cooperation with the Pullman Car Company. Pullman bought it out in 1900. According to the <a href="http://www.midcontinent.org/">Mid-Continent Railway Museum</a>,</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"The Wagner Palace Car Company was one of the largest employers in Buffalo in 1890. Its works occupied 35.7 acres at 1770 Broadway out at the east end of Broadway near Broadway and Bailey. In addition to brass finishers, the company employed blacksmiths, car builders, carpenters, carvers, marble finishers, steamfitters and even a storekeeper!"</span></blockquote>
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In the Google View above, 1770 would be in the center of the picture. What a great location for a railway sleeping car company! Note the semi-circular building at 4 o'clock. It is a <a href="http://www.forgottenbuffalo.com/forgottenbuffalolost/buffaloslastroundhouse.html"><b>former railroad roundhouse</b></a>, according to <a href="http://www.forgottenbuffalo.com/forgottenbflofeatures/pullmanwagnercomplex.html"><b>Forgotten Buffalo</b></a>, one of a few 19th century buildings surviving into the 21st century in this area:<br />
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The Webster Wagner home in Palatine Bridge NY caught my attention as I journeyed down route 5 on Google Street View from Albany to Utica.<br />
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Photos that were included with nominating papers for the Wagner home's inclusion in the <b><a href="https://www.nps.gov/nr/">National Register of Historic Places</a> </b>show the home was intact at the time of filing, 22 March 1973.<br />
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In Webster Wagner's lifetime, this residence was a showplace. It was filled with life and distinguished guests. Its fate, however, was not determined by its original owner or his family.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Gazette Reporter</i><br /><b>Date: </b>March 11, 2014<br /><b>Publication: </b>Daily Gazette, The (Schenectady, NY)<br /><b>Edition:</b>Schenectady/Albany; Final<br /><b>Column:</b>PALATINE BRIDGE<b><br />Length: </b>765 Words<br /><b>Page: </b>C1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Time and years of neglect by longtime village recluse Barry Woods have taken their toll." Mr. Woods occupied the back addition to the home for many years. He was resistant to the entreaties of his fellow citizens to restore the home, yet would not leave until local authorities forced him out when the structure began to collapse around him. Woods simply abandoned the place and ran away, leaving vehicles and other personal property behind. Since he did not pay taxes on his property and did not respond to registered mail, the Village sold the landmark home's remains at tax auction for $1,000 to Herbie Ambrose of Arizona. After being issued several citations for code violations, Mr. Ambrose sold out to Andre Anasta of Catskill NY. As of 2014, Mr. Anasta was in the midst of a controlled demoltion of the structure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Additional details of this tale can be found in an article by Joshua Thomas, Courier Standard Enterprise editor, published 12 March 2014, "<i><a href="http://www.courierstandardenterprise.com/News/03122014_wagner"><b>Demolition Permit Issued for Condemned Webster Wagner House</b></a></i>."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In 2012 photographer <a href="https://ssl.panoramio.com/user/178329?with_photo_id=60714600"><b>Bob Wood</b></a> snapped the west facade of the Wagner home (via Google):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two years later, in March of 2014, photographer Rob Yasinsac took a great set of photos detailing the building's state of decay for <a href="http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/rob/?p=1928"><b>HV-Rob, Hudson Valley Ruins</b></a>. The comments on Rob Yasinsac's post include remarks from Jason Coppernoll's grandson. Jason Coppernoll owned the home at the time it was placed on the National Register of Historic places in the 1970s, and was the last owner to adequately maintain the property. </span></span></span><br />
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A photo essay appeared on 24 April 2014 in the Canajoharie <a href="http://www.courierstandardenterprise.com/04242014_wagnerseen">Courier-Standard-Enterprise</a> that featured a tour of the devastation with the latest owner, Pierre Anasta. At that point much of the structure was still sort-of standing, though precariously and Pierre was proceeding cautiously with demolition.</div>
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Four days later John Mason followed up with a long article in Hudson NY's <a href="http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_550c6a68-ced1-11e3-ad10-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story">Register-Star</a>, explaining that the current owner was attempting to salvage whatever could be saved for later sale to interested parties to help finance a local gymnasium. The Mason article includes excerpts from interviews with former residents and visitors to the home.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As of Google's 2015 sighting, only the two service wings remain.<br />
This is where owner Barry Woods camped out while<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">High ceilings, quality crown molding and blue paint highlight<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Have preservation efforts reached a dead end as of 2016? Yes, for the time being.<br />
Will there be grant money available to reinforce and rebuild? No, not as long as<br />
what is left remains in private ownership.<br />
Things look dire. It appears salvage efforts have been suspended.<br />
It seems the owner may not complete the demolition anytime soon.<br />
Meanwhile, hopefully no children will be playing anywhere near this dangerous structure!</td></tr>
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We will be visiting random locations of interest along NY Route 5 beginning in Albany, NY and ending somewhere near, maybe west of Utica. We'll see. When one of our field trips begins things become unpredictable. Who knows where it will end!</div>
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Bank buildings of various impressive designs are (ahem) a dime a dozen in Albany. I wonder if this is typical where politicians congregate. Money and politics are particularly well connected in the Albany of 2016.<br />
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Aside from the fancy entrance, the thing that strikes me about the structure above is its size. A primary objective of bank headquarters architecture is to convey strength and permanence. Your money will be safe here! So we'll take all of it, thank you.</div>
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On this photo and others to follow, you will notice the occasional Google logo. This is derivative photography originally shot from Google's nine eyes on Street View. No effort has been made to disquise origins, as origins are part of the story here on <a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2015/09/welcome-to-photographers-street-view.html"><b>Photographers Street View</b></a>. The captions link to the original location.</div>
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"Mystery buildings" crop up now and then in my narratives. The one above looks sorta churchy on the James St. side. One of the nice things about a blog is that captions can be revised as more information is acquired. Give an assist! Comment below. Tell me something about any landmark pictured here.</div>
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Home of the famous <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Pinto-Hobbs-Tavern-149761448404988/">Pinto and Hobbs Tavern</a>, </i>it appears #142 might have been a private residence at some time in the past. It also appears their cook works hard and needs a break. Note the elegant cornice. The chalkboard next to the entrance lends character, too.<br />
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Many banks and many churches populate downtown Albany. It seems they conspire to make other buildings architecturally inconsequential. As my father, a banker, could tell you, a great many bankers <i>need </i>churches! Proximity is not coincidence.</div>
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Speaking of "needing churches," in 2016, the elected residents of the building below would be among those so classified. (You probably can guess without scrolling down.)</div>
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The NY State Education Dept. houses itself in style! How many secondary, primary or college campuses have buildings that look like Chancellor's Hall in New York State? Not many, I'm sure. At one time, the public supported free tuition throughout the SUNY system. Today, the public supports this. <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Majesty-of-education-3946430.php#photo-3589189"><b>Chancellor's makes a statement</b></a>. Should pomp and ceremony trump substance and learning?</div>
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West of Albany on route 5, we encounter substance and learning:<br />
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Travelling on Google Street View has its quirks. Though there are great advantages, like comfortable seating, no fuel costs, little danger of mechanical breakdown, minimal distractions and a handy bathroom, there are also frustrations. The resolution on Street View photos taken in 2007-2009 is not sufficient to observe roadside features with much clarity. As of 2016, Google has not revisited stretches of Route 5 since those early days of poor resolution. Therefore, there will be significant gaps in our journey due to this technical difficulty.</div>
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In addition, Google has yet to survey multitudes of back roads, canals, rivers, trails and most importantly, railroad lines. There's lots of interesting stuff which is going to be left out simply because Google doesn't go there -- yet.</div>
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With these technical difficulties in mind, let the field trip resume!</div>
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Our visual perception of the landscape is influenced by the light we see it in. Colors along the banks of the Mohawk are softly muted here because the sun's light is being filtered through a band of mostly stratus clouds. Basic boring, I'd say. But the action is in the atmosphere this day, not so much on the ground. Picasa has brought out some greenish and pinkish tinges to this combination of grays. While it is primarily flat-appearing, on closer inspection the cloud deck has considerable variation and vertical depth. Not so boring, after all!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Route 5 is a heavily traveled transportation corridor.<br />
Rail lines, the Erie Canal, the NYS Barge Canal, old roads and new make the historic trip<br />
up the Mohawk River to the cities and villages of central New York State.</td></tr>
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Looking west, Route 5 is on the right, north of the NYS Thruway, which is on your left.<br />
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Route 5 tends to be a bit informal. It varies from 2 lanes to 4 lanes. It has many stretches that appear to be limited access, but much of the way private drives connect directly with the main highway.</div>
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This is what <a href="https://goo.gl/tdOhxg">a private railway crossing</a> looks like.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dams control Mohawk River water levels, making the NYS Barge Canal navigable.<br />
They look like bridges because of the gate lifting they must do to fulfill their purpose.<br />
This one is located <a href="https://goo.gl/Zyv1Iq"><b>here</b></a>, just east of Amsterdam.</td></tr>
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A satellite view from Google Earth in 3d gives a good overall view of the NYS Barge Canal Lock #10 with its dam, seen above from route 5.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/o0wKiO">Lock #10</a> shows a good bit of rust. The NYS Canal System needs a great deal of<br />
maintenance to deal with the damaging effects of New York winters. It is a huge expense.<br />
The Canal System, however, generates very little income with which to support its operation.<br />
In 2016, the System was overseen by the NYS Thruway Authority.<br />
The only commercial traffic it sees are tour boats, with pleasure boating the primary use.</td></tr>
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Roy G. Finch, in <a href="http://www.canals.ny.gov/history/finch_history_print.pdf">The Story of the New York State Canals</a> (written for the 100th anniversary of the Canal in 1925) explains what's going on in the above picture:</div>
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"The dams which have been built as a means for controlling the<br />
canalized rivers are of two distinct types -- fixed and movable. The<br />
most notable of the fixed type are those located on the Mohawk<br />
River between Schenectady and Cohoes. The larger of the two is at<br />
Crescent and is nearly semicircular in shape. The top of this<br />
structure is 39 feet above the river bottom and the length is nearly<br />
one-half mile. [see below] In general appearance the Mohawk movable dams look like steel bridges. [above] They have concrete piers and abutments with spans made of heavy structural steel. From the downstream side of the lower bridge chords steel uprights are hung by a hinge-like connection. One end of the uprights rests on a concrete<br />
sill in the river bottom. Against these uprights slide steel plates,<br />
called gates, which may be raised and lowered by the aid of<br />
machinery. When the gates are lowered, or closed, the structure is<br />
in operation as a dam and whenever it is desired to permit the<br />
escape of more water than would flow over the crst, the gates are<br />
partly raised, allowing more water to pass through. During the<br />
winter season or in the event of a severe flood, the gates and<br />
uprights are entirely removed, being swung up under the bridge<br />
floor and leaving a perfectly clear channel. Eight structures of this<br />
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Before the NYS Thruway was constructed Route 5, along with parallel route 20 mostly to its south, carried all the vehicular traffic between Albany and Buffalo. Sections of it were rebuilt to carry the heavy traffic load. Where traffic was unusually congested, the road was rerouted or expanded to two lanes in each direction. In Amsterdam it took over a railroad siding alongside the Bowlers Brewery. From what used to be the railroad loading platform travellers get a good view of the 19th century building:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/"><b>The New York History Blog</b></a> features<br />
a <b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/obudmore/phillip-bowlerthe-historianssunday-february-28-2016">podcast interview withPhillip Bowler concerning the history of this building</a></b><br />
and the Bowler Brewing enterprise.</td></tr>
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"I'm just a [wood] whose intentions are good<br />
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood" - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwN0X8YnWo"><b>The Animals</b></a></td></tr>
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Bored, yet? If so, try some tree identification. If you think you've seen them all, you most likely haven't ever looked at any. Like all plants, each species of tree has preferred growing conditions. Hemlocks like the north-facing slopes of cool streambanks. Willows love water, so you'll find them near streams, ponds and swamps unless someone has been so bold as to plant one in their yard, in which case willow roots will soon find their water supply and septic pipes. Willow, weep for me...!</div>
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Usually the most successful way to identify trees is by their leaves. Unless stopping long enough to hike into the forest, however, folks passing through at 55mph or so on route 5 won't be seeing individual leaves. Other clues must be pursued. In the case of the trees above, our clues are location, bark characteristics, growth habit and general shape.</div>
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The trees above are all in a bunch, which is a distinctive characteristic of trees such as sumacs, locusts, aspens, beeches and birches among others, many of which spread by root sprouts. (If you've ever hiked in a beech forest, you quickly learn to watch out for beech roots which lie in wait to trip you up if you aren't careful.) They are deciduous, shedding their leaves every autumn. They are on a well-drained, south-facing slope, which rules out our willow friends. I'll bet that the soil has been disturbed by road development and probably isn't particularly fertile.</div>
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My guess is they're aspen trees. The color of the bark is too light for beech and too dark for white birch. The crowns don't look quite right for locust and they're much too tall for sumacs. But that's only a guess. What do you think? <a href="https://goo.gl/pgLRYf">Go back to the original</a>. Move your cursor around a bit and see if you can pick up additional clues. Give us your take on the identity of this grove by commenting below.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/ZLlFhA"><b>Kanatsiohareke</b></a><br />
This is <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">the home of the <a href="http://www.mohawkcommunity.com/home/missionstatement.html"><b>Mohawk Community of Kanatsiohareke</b></a> (Ga na jo ha lay gay).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Founded by </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.mohawkcommunity.com/tomscorner.html"><b>Sakokwenionkwas</b></a> (Tom Porter), this land was repopulated in 1993 by the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) Nation for the purpose of promoting "the development of a community based on the traditions, philosophy, and governance of the Haudenosaunee, and to contribute to the preservation of the culture of people as a framework for a blend of traditional native concerns with the best of the emerging new earth friendly, environmental ideologies that run parallel to these traditions." </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google Earth 3D captures a <a href="https://goo.gl/tRc7Ga"><b>satellite view of Kanatsiohareke</b></a><br />
The Kanatsiohareke community is challenged by the same climate issues as<br />
the NYS Barge Canal. <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/kanatsiohare-ke-mohawk-community-493107"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">You can help</span></b></a>.</td></tr>
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The climate in New York State is not kind or gentle. Humid, with seasonal extremes of temperatures, anything left exposed to the weather is attacked by the chemical and physical properties of water. Cycles of freezing and thawing ("<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_weathering"><b>frost weathering</b></a>") break rock formations and plumbing alike. Water seeps into wood, attracting excavators such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_ant"><b>carpenter ants</b></a> that weaken structural beams. Bacteria, fungus and mold work together to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot"><b>rot</b></a> exposed timbers, in particular. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust"><b>Steel rusts</b></a> away slowly as water vapor initiates a chemical reaction involving iron and oxygen. Protective chemicals can be applied to the surface (paint, usually) or injected into porous materials to retard deterioration.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/9HNm2J"><b>At the corner of Main and Cayadutta</b></a> in Fonda, an abandoned building shows the effect<br />
of New York climate on exposed timber, some of which was protected...for awhile.<br />
Can you spot other examples of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering"><b>weathering</b></a> on this blog post?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My guess here is that this was once a red dairy barn. It sits stuffed with good hay,<br />
apparently abandoned, <a href="https://goo.gl/5ZuWC8"><b>just weathering away</b></a>.... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goo.gl/LuxwI2"><b>Google 3d satellite view</b></a> of the previous barn shows the private railroad crossing used<br />
to access the fertile fields across route 5 from the barn. Going back for a second look<br />
at the property, I can find no remains of a residence, though there might just be a<br />
foundation among the trees nearest the middle "5" above. The access drive appears to<br />
be used rarely, perhaps by someone storing equipment or hay in the remaining barns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like the road builders decided nobody was going to enter this barn again.<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/VXNsyv"><b>No admittance</b></a>, except through the roof, that is. My hunch is the roof is still protecting several thousand dollars of reusable beams and siding. Your local lumber dealer has nothing<br />
as classy as this time capsule--to say nothing of the possible hidden antique contents.<br />
Potential, potential!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/VPnNgt">Google 3d</a> views the barn above (red arrow) as a freight passes it by.<br />
The farmer may have lived in the existing residence across the street. Typical of many<br />
farms in this locale, farmers face not only road hazards, but railroad hazards as well whenever<br />
they go forth from their homes above the flood plains to work their crops below.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/r6rQgS"><b>Direct from the farm</b></a>, farm stands probably had higher sales before the<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Palatine Bridge</span></h4>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_Bridge,_New_York"><b>Palatine Bridge</b></a> has an interesting past as the site of a few large Victorian residences, notable today largely for their absence or collapse. While local preservationists have done everything possible to save them, they have been frustrated by the lack of support from individual owners, the most notorious case being that of social misfit Barry Woods, who is responsible for the destruction of the Webster Wagner house as documented on this blog's post "<a href="http://www.photographersstreetview.com/2016/03/in-passing.html"><b>In Passing</b></a>." </div>
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Travelling across the actual Palatine bridge on Google Street View is a rather weird experience. Google's 9 eyes have been across on more than one occasion, but the traveller is not permitted to make it all the way from one side to another in a single year. In 2016, one has the jarring experience of jumping from exposures made in 2015 to those made in 2009 or 2008, then back to 2015 exposures as one moves the cursor across the bridge between Canajoharie and Palatine Bridge.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://goo.gl/dSz0HY"><b>The Mohawk River is the Canal</b></a> along this stretch of route 5.<br />
As I understand it, this was the chief difference between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Canal_System"><b>NYS Barge Canal</b></a> and the<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal"><b>original Erie Canal</b></a>, which it replaced. The original Erie contained much structure that<br />
was independent of the River itself, making upkeep very difficult and expansion of the<br />
independent little ditch a gargantuan task if the expansion followed the exact route<br />
of the original. Damming the River to allow the riverbed itself to serve<br />
as the canal was a great idea. Note that the Canal is paralleled by its competition, the<br />
railroad, which drove it out of commercial business. The railroad, in turn, competes today with<br />
auto and truck traffic on the NYS Thruway, route 5's replacement.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile, <a href="https://goo.gl/TifN6g">in some areas along route 5</a> near Palatine Bridge, the forest appears eager to reclaim<br />
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Before the forest takes over, however, you should be aware that Palatine Bridge is not a particularly sleepy village. They aren't allowed that privilege. They have trains! Palatine Bridge NY is on many a railfan's map as a great place to watch trains--even from your motel room in some cases.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duluth Imperial Flour was one of several brands produced in Duluth MN.<br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/s8OfZg">This ad</a> on the Stafford Warehouse Co. building in Little Falls dates from the late 19th century.<br />
The <a href="http://zenithcity.com/zenith-city-history-archives/duluth-industry/flour-milling-1888-1957/">Duluth Imperial Milling Co.</a> went out of business after merging into the<br />
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From the Poor Poetry Department comes this modest effort found on one of the more famous Imperial Flour ads:</div>
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"As our airship proudly rises<br />
On high we heard the praises<br />
And our song the world amazes<br />
By its truth.<br />
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"For we sing of product cereal<br />
Which makes our bread ethereal<br />
And is known as flour “Imperial”<br />
From Duluth"<br />
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Imperial's flour just <i>had</i> to be better than their ad copy!</div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In the northeastern US, deciduous trees begin to get their fall coloration in sequence. Can you identify the two principal tree species in the above picture? In front, the Sumacs have taken the lead. They are among the first to display. The Sugar Maples in the background, meanwhile, are only frosted with color. Parts of the Maples will remain green for awhile. Willows (not pictured above) are among the holdouts of the season, sometimes not coloring until late October. Beech trees retain a small percentage of their leaves through the winter, each leaf bleaching out gradually until they are almost white by spring.</span></div>
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Anybody for <a href="http://www.redcofoods.com/"><b>tea</b></a>?</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In Little Falls, route 5 is definitely the "beaten" path. Yielding to temptation, however, I travelled off 5 a bit with Google's 9 eyes to capture a couple of other glimpses of Little Falls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In the Google 3d image of Little Falls above, route 5 is to your right. Centered is the actual "Little" falls, a rocky hazard for shipping, indeed! To the left is the NYS Canal itself, guarded against flood damage by a pair of gates in the upper left. At the center of the picture you can see the remains of a semi-circular dam which used to divert the Mohawk River into a power station for a local factory. The low dams at the top of the image are just high enough to divert water into the canal without blocking the Mohawk altogether.</span></div>
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Doing the best it can with the its first primitive 9 eyes camera, Google looks <a href="https://goo.gl/okBbAM"><b>downstream from route 167 in September 2009</b></a> (above).<br />
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Meandering off route 5 on route 169, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.038007,-74.8446646,3a,75y,274.32h,91.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sw-MRViEetUOEVw6JkK2YXQ!2e0!5s20151001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en"><b>Lock 17 of the NYS Canal System</b></a> gets boats safely around the falls:<br />
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Ever been on a field trip? For kids and adults (and especially for teachers, bus drivers and chaperones), the excitement of escape can't be beat. It's a special gift, a day away from ordinary routines of work or instruction...sometimes even permission to "misbehave," to experience worlds undiscovered in ways that may seem new.</div>
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In a new environment the senses are stimulated by the curiosity we all share for the unknown. Adults who have long been narrowcast into the ruts of a singular interest in sports, politics, etc. or just the basics of day-to-day survival are stimulated by a sense of wonder tinged occasionally by a fear of danger, too. Children may be released for a moment from the distractions of classroom politics--maybe even those of their cell phones--to interact with peers and instructors in ways that promote learning.</div>
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Nothing online can duplicate the joy of the outdoors. Even the best video or audio experience available is not a substitute for the jolt of reality delivered by having <i>all</i> of the senses involved <i>at once</i>. Being online in 2016 is like being at a fancy museum, where you're told not to touch the pictures--everything is to be admired, but at a distance. The only <i>approximate</i> experience is that of gaming. Gaming, however, is usually anticipated as fantasy and perceived as a series of journeys into worlds either not found on earth or found only in another era.</div>
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Fantasy can be a learning tool. It is instantly engaging and a wonderful distraction from the pain of everyday life. Politicians know how to use fantasy as distraction. They tell us the stories we want to hear. Gamers engage us in worlds we want to experience, worlds where heros control outcomes.</div>
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Seeing the world of reality as a place where our influence is uncertain and the outcome is not under our control is scary. Let's face it. Reality is frightening for all of us. Hopefully, we wake from fantasy to a real world that is sometimes less frightening than we imagine in our dreams.<br />
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Street View offers us the opportunity to observe outcomes. Some outcomes will escape our detective abilities, and what we do see will be observed through our life experience. No two of us will see the same picture.<br />
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The photo below illustrates nothing, or it illustrates the points made above. It's your choice. "Right" answers are those that respond to the questions you ask yourself.<br />
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Seen here is a beautiful "mackeral" sky. Altocumulus and stratus cloud types predominate with perhaps a cirrus deck above all.</div>
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That may be, but the focus is obviously(?) on the trees. By their size and autumn color passing motorists can identify the species. They're Sugar Maples, Acer something-or-other (Look it up later).</div>
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Interesting, but their uniform age and isolation would indicate they were part of a human-designed landscape. Those trees reveal not just their history, but are clues to the evolution of this region. Planted maybe a hundred years ago, they mark the location of what was then a new home. I hear a family story coming on....</div>
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Hey! This is nothing but a motley wood with some rusty, rickety old farm machinery littering a landscape! What can be learned from that outcome?</div>
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Is that all there is? It's your decision.</div>
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Meanwhile, across the street beasts with an alternate perception go about their business, maybe without observing their environment at all in the way humans sometimes do....</div>
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