Joseph Peightel
03/28/2017 - 365 Main Street Project – 358 of 365
Laurel – Along The Backstretch
7 Photos to go. Still more of the story to tell.
I’ve been wanting to take this photo for a while. I like signs that let you know you’re in Laurel but not in such an obvious or overt “Welcome to Laurel” with a bunch of daisies planted in front a sign kind of way. Viewers that have been around from the beginning might remember I have an attraction to things that have a rusty patina… like the water tower in this photo. Things that have been around awhile.
I was having trouble finding an angle I liked for the photo, as I pass it often on Whiskey Bottom Road. I found my angle this afternoon, along Brock Bridge Road… behind the horse barns along the back stretch. It’s kind of an obvious metaphor, because along and behind the backstretch is where most of the people in Laurel are, and where most of the business of living in Laurel gets done. As with this photo project too… the race was won not in the start, or the thrill of the finish, but in that long charge down the backstretch.
Some Cool History Links to Stories about Laurel Park History:
Laurel Park was for a time known as Camp Laurel during WW I – “Thousands of World War I soldiers on their way overseas passed through the long-forgotten Camp Laurel located on land owned then by the Maryland State Fair, now Laurel Park racetrack”
www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-la...
in July of 1969, Led Zeppelin headlined the Laurel Pop Festival at Laurel Park that also featured Buddy Guy, Al Kooper, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Edwin Hawkins, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, The Mothers of Invention, Savoy Brown and The Guess Who. The Laurel Pop Festival occured just 8 days before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and a month before a slightly larger pop festival held on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Box Seats for the Laurel event: $10.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Pop_Festival
03/28/2017 - 365 Main Street Project – 358 of 365
Laurel – Along The Backstretch
7 Photos to go. Still more of the story to tell.
I’ve been wanting to take this photo for a while. I like signs that let you know you’re in Laurel but not in such an obvious or overt “Welcome to Laurel” with a bunch of daisies planted in front a sign kind of way. Viewers that have been around from the beginning might remember I have an attraction to things that have a rusty patina… like the water tower in this photo. Things that have been around awhile.
I was having trouble finding an angle I liked for the photo, as I pass it often on Whiskey Bottom Road. I found my angle this afternoon, along Brock Bridge Road… behind the horse barns along the back stretch. It’s kind of an obvious metaphor, because along and behind the backstretch is where most of the people in Laurel are, and where most of the business of living in Laurel gets done. As with this photo project too… the race was won not in the start, or the thrill of the finish, but in that long charge down the backstretch.
Some Cool History Links to Stories about Laurel Park History:
Laurel Park was for a time known as Camp Laurel during WW I – “Thousands of World War I soldiers on their way overseas passed through the long-forgotten Camp Laurel located on land owned then by the Maryland State Fair, now Laurel Park racetrack”
www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-la...
in July of 1969, Led Zeppelin headlined the Laurel Pop Festival at Laurel Park that also featured Buddy Guy, Al Kooper, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Edwin Hawkins, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, The Mothers of Invention, Savoy Brown and The Guess Who. The Laurel Pop Festival occured just 8 days before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and a month before a slightly larger pop festival held on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Box Seats for the Laurel event: $10.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Pop_Festival