John's Grocery

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 5th Jan 2006 - 19:43 GMT

I'd like to see more Iowa. Looks pretty. Do you know why the windows on the ground floor are bricked up?
Isn't Captain Kirk from Iowa?

Hobart: 5th Jan 2006 - 20:03 GMT

The windows are bricked over because that's where their equipment and cold-storage is, I would imagine. The walls have been retro-fitted with insulation and are too thick and utilitarian in their current role to hold windows.

Captain Kirk's Wikipedia entry indicates that he is, in fact, from Iowa, perhaps a town caled Riverside.

William Shatner's hometown, however, appears to be Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a world away from Iowa, I'd assume, though I've never been to Canada, or really spend much time outside of Iowa itself, now that I look back at my life.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kirk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner

joey: 6th Jan 2006 - 03:36 GMT

do you remember in blade runner how the computer could take the viewer inside a photograph? i wish that was a feature of citynoise

Jamie: 6th Jan 2006 - 09:09 GMT

Hobart: love the photo. it's always good to see long-time lurkers posting stuff, and it's always good to see new places representing on citynoise. Man i'd sure love to see more of Captain Kirk's hometown, that's for sure.

Joey: I'm working on it ;-)

jack: 6th Jan 2006 - 16:47 GMT

looks like the corner store in the movie, 'summer of 42'