One of the pioneers of Third Avenue redevelopement this wee beastie went up on 44th Street... 'Heroic' image from a 1950s book on modern office planning - note the 3rd Avenue El is still there. More recent image. HVAC unit has obliterated the decorative spire. Up the block is the Gen Tel Building - according to the 1972 Geographia Atlas of NYC. View from the Chrysler Building.Now seems to lean against one of Harry Mackelowe's midblock infill projects. Across the street is 711 Third Avenue, designed by the architects of the...

Sukkot Tent in Town

author: Franny Wentzel : Monroeville, USA

Brooklynites probably see these all the time but it's a rare thing to see a Sukkot booth upstate. I pass this one every time I go to the park... This one used to be on the front lawn but it seems they'd planted bushes on its old spot... Would make for an interesting thread to see other Sukkot spottings...

Have the Jawas Arrived with Robots for Sale?

author: Franny Wentzel : Monroeville, USA

or did a self-unloader from a Great Lakes ore boat pull up onto the block? Actually it's a pavement ripper-upper thingie... ...and it brought along a friend! Shall we commence the street nomming? On nom nom nom nom nom nom... Feed the Mack truck... The rotary thingie does a little cleanup behind... Asphalt machine comes by later... This being a government job... they left a patch of unrepaved road behind...

Polaroid 100 City Pix

author: Franny Wentzel : Schenectady, NY

Actual city pix taken with my old polaroid 100 Erie Boulevard - they use the term 'boulevard' loosely here... Ruby's diner - always seemed to be closed whenever I was downtown... Schenectady Federal Savings - the decorative slats have since been removed Apartments along Jay Street in front of City Hall Turquoise painted Victorian gothic house in the Stockade district - it has since been painted over in a series of grays KEM cleaners plaza - since closed and remodeled with ersatz Victorian bric-a-brac In my previous post was in this image... 1920s houses along Regent Street House on Van Antwerp Street Ventilators from the pizza place in this image...

Polaroid Art Pix

author: Franny Wentzel : Monroeville, USA

Some time before the turn of the century I managed to get hold of a sweet Polaroid 100 outfit... Found a photo shop downtown that still sold pack film and the battery needed for this camera... My first effort fubared badly but the results were kinda neat... second try wasn't so bad... Chemtrails - this was very slow film... Artsey ventilator shot... First try at a time exposure shot by holding shutter down and keeping finger over the exposure eyelet Getting better at it... A final shot... you can make out the ghost of our tree

Random Carnage

author: Franny Wentzel : Monroeville, USA

Walking home from the store I happened upon this little tableau... Could it be the eye of one of those rods en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(cryptozoology) fallen from the stratosphere? No... it's just somebody's headlights... but how did it manage to come to griefs on our little corner? The neighbours had the city make it an all-way stop on account of all the accidents that used to happen on this corner... ...and with the sidewalks being rebuilt all the signs on our street have been taken down. Maybe the dumbass ran into the back end of a car or truck that wasn't made of evershatter plastic...

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