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A walk through Seattle’s Wallingford community, during the Coronavirus lockdown.
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Voigtländer Nokton Classic VM 35mm f/1.4 MC II + Fujifilm X-E3.
Polaroid Automatic 100
Polaroid ID-UV instant film
expired 8/2007
I love how when you approach from this side the "1" is backwards.
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Model Drive In Cleaner, angle, 25th & Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California
1977.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: General commercial buildings; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Cleaning establishments--1970-1980.
United States--California--Long Beach.
Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01077
Call Number: LC-MA05- 1077
© This photograph is copyrighted. Under no circumstances can it be reproduced, distributed, modified, copied, posted to websites or printed or published in media or other medium or used for commercial or other uses without the prior written consent and permission of the photographer.
This is one that I need to do a reshoot of. It's not easy to get the whole sign, but it was a great find
"You'll like our prompt cleaning. Phone us for convenient, careful service. Keemer Cleaner, Lincoln Highway East, phone 4-3721."
Originally posted on Ipernity: Phone Us for Convenient, Careful Service.
As Wikipedia explains, "Spook Hill is a gravity hill (an optical illusion where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill) in Lake Wales, Florida."
"Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Fla. It's weird! Fantastic! Stop on line. Release brakes. Watch for cars when you roll back. Prather's Laundry & Dry Cleaners. Watch for Prather's White Trucks."
Description printed on the back of this postcard: "A few blocks from the heart of Lake Wales is that mystifying and fascinating phenomenon, Spook Hill. Here playful ghosts apparently seize your car and in defiance of the laws of gravity and your previous experience in such matters, roll your vehicle gently backward uphill, while they chortle in unholy glee at your mystification.
Handwritten message: "Stayed here last night and went to Bok tower but it was so foggy. It is sunny now about 75 degrees. By the time this card is written we'll be in Miami. Torrey. Erna."
No address, stamp, or postmark.
Todd Franklin (Neato Coolville) also has a copy of this: Spook Hill Postcard.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Spook Hill, Lake Wales, Florida.
I took the drycleaner’s plastic off this skirt a few hours ago and I’ve already smudged it with dirt. It’s a magnet for dust, lint, and pet hair. This is why I don’t wear black. (And avoid solid colors.
Sweater, thrifted. Skirt, Mossimo. Shoes, BCBGeneration. Sunglasses and earrings, Girlprops. Necklaces, thrifted and/or vintage. Bag, Melie Bianco.
It's nothing a little strategic purse positioning can't hide. But I can't keep that up all day.
A bit of a poser. Why would LFS 486 be trundling through Goldenacre screened improbably for service 45? It looks like that's a uniformed driver at the helm, not a fitter. No conductor in evidence.
No matter, we shall never know. I have written about my memories of Goldenacre before. Since my day it seems that the shops have undergone a sort of slide downhill - the drycleaner's seen here has become a newsagent, and a drycleaner's is now located a few shops further down the street. On the other side of the street there was a shoe shop, a baker's I think, and various other retailers.
The driver seems to be glowering at me through his tinted shades. He sports a very seventies moustache.
I've long wanted to photograph this quaint little attached shop. I'm sure at some point it will disappear.
As seen at 82 West Castle Street, Stockton, CA
Did you know that Stockton has a Miracle Mile? I didn't!
For more, see www.wrightrealtors.com/stockton/pacific-miracle-mile.htm
Maryse Pouriou is the third generation owner of a dry cleaning business in the Provencale village of Saint-Remy-de-Provence. She irons dresses and other garments all day long, behind a window facing the street. I wanted to capture her in her environment and went into the shop to ask her permission. It turned out, that she is an avid photographer, and that the walls of her tiny shop are covered in photographs. Some she made herself, on trips to Africa and other wonderful places, and some are vintage photographs of the founders and previous generations of owners. I had a very clear idea in my mind about how I wanted to re-create my first impression of seeing her through the window, ironing in the middle of the bustle of the village, as represented by these weird and wonderful reflections. This picture represents what I saw and felt during that fleeting moment, when I first passed the shop, and saw Maryse, ironing behind the window.
Smoking is still more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in Canada, unfortunately. We were continually discouraged from sitting at outdoor patios on busy shopping streets and tourist areas of the major cities. We had nice weather but when enjoying a drink or a quick snack we chose to do so indoors because of the smokers
sometimes it is just easier to answer yes than explain why you have 6 cameras on your person
or why you are out on Christmas Day on a solo photo shoot taking pictures of so many funny local spots that have caught your eye but are always too crowded . . . like dry cleaners and vacant auto parts stores and parking lots and barber shops and rod & reel stores with cracked & taped window fronts and hardware stores.
because, that people, is exactly what I did. and I have the peculiar pictures to show for it.
Testing another PC35 AF-M, but an SE model this time, which has a different grip and lacks ISO toggle to set ISO on non-DX marked rolls.
Cameras works okay, focuses and exposes well, but flash doesn't work. Also, although I cleaned a battery leak, power contact is lost occasionally, so I have to remove and re-insert batteries. Therefore, I ended up taking the battery door from this one to replace a missing door on another PC35 AF-M, so now I have 3 complete, fully-working units, and one mostly-working unit.
Pentax PC35 AF-M SE, test
Arista 200 @ 400
Blazinal 1:25, 5 minutes, 20°C/68°F
Pakon F135