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Another Flavel house detail. Try the Large view for crackle-tastic texture.
The Flavel house, on the corner of Franklin & 15th, serves as the defacto haunted house of the neighborhood: a once-regal but now-vaguely-menacing turn-of-the-century building, on a lot overgrown with blackberry, tangleroot, and bramble, with the mandatory big ol' gnarly spooky tree. Lights go on & off randomly in the upper floors at night, although the house hasn't been lived in for years— my guess is an automated light timer, altho it certainly lends to the 'haunted by ghosts' effect.
Some of the rumors & stories: one of the Flavels apparently stabbed a trespasser once... the Flavels allegedly kept all their dead pets in freezers in the basement... I could go on. The Flavels are somewhat of a local legend here in Astoria; Captain John Flavel, the first licensed river pilot on the Columbian River, who was one of the prominent figures in the town's early history, amassed quite a little fortune, and built this fantastic gingerbread mansion (which was almost bulldozed to make way for a parking lot for the courthouse in the 1950s, if you can imagine). The present day Flavels are known as quite the bankrupt barons & scoundrels— they own tons of property all around town, all of which is rotting away & falling down like this piece of property, which has come up for auction numerous times— with the Flavels flying in at midnight to re-purchase it at the last minute with funds borrowed under somewhat suspect means. Another story goes that the Flavels ran up tens of thousands of dollars residing at the poshest hotels around the country, each time bailing without paying the bill. A bit of Grey Gardens meets the Royal Tenenbaums.
hanoi, vietnam
1995
local men
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Here was a 10 hr day at a local church. I had setup a table to display my cost saving services that everybody uses each day. I had a very GOOD day helping others, but for me I forgot something. Hint, you can see me in my RED shirt, standing next to my RED truck, well I now have a RED face and arms...forgot my sun screen and I do hurt today.
The Rochester community spent their Saturday and Sunday shopping 45+ local vendors and artisans, snapped pics at Hype Booth and SnapPodNY photobooths, and attended five festive classes taught by local business owners like Model Martini, Abode, Stacy K Floral, and Tiny Fish Printing. Happy Holidays! Photos by www.laurenmclaughlin.com
The Rochester community spent their Saturday and Sunday shopping 45+ local vendors and artisans, snapped pics at Hype Booth and SnapPodNY photobooths, and attended five festive classes taught by local business owners like Model Martini, Abode, Stacy K Floral, and Tiny Fish Printing. Happy Holidays! Photos by www.laurenmclaughlin.com
Karl Martin, Arne and Dag Rune having the light Estrella beer at the local pub, just some hundred meters from our villa.
We came to know the owner, Manuel, pretty well. Especially, since he spoke English - something very unusual in Galicia. Manuel gave us a number of tips for sites to visit in Galicia and treated us to some really good tapas.
After dropping off their train at the Metra station in town, the two repainted IC's on the oil local head into K.A Steel for some switching there before heading north to Glenn Yard. Lemont, IL
“Commonly known outside Transylvania as Dracula's Castle, it is marketed as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler, voivode of Wallachia, who shares his name with Dracula. Stoker's description of Dracula's crumbling fictional castle also bears no resemblance to Bran Castle.” (Wikipedia)
O local onde se situa a villa de S. Cucufate inicia a sua longa e diversificada história com a ocupação do local a partir do Neolítico Final, tendo sido depois habitado por uma população pré-romana.
A villa romana apresenta-se como o tipo clássico de propriedade de exploração intensa, exclusivamente orientada para o mercado. Em termos arqueológicos encontra-se articulada com as vias de comunicação e nas proximidades das cidades. Esta ainda pressupõe a existência de uma força de trabalho de cerca 10/12 pessoas de condição servil ou livre, mas não ligada ao proprietário. Assim em meados do século I d.C. deu-se lugar à construção de uma villa, de condições e dimensões ainda muito rústicas, mas que adivinhava já a implantação ou reconstrução de uma nova villa adaptada às necessidades arquitectónicas, estéticas e funcionais da época, ou seja do século II d.C., constituindo um dos poucos exemplares da Península Ibérica de Villae cum turris.
O edifício é abandonado aquando das grandes invasões bárbaras, e só volta a ser ocupado, mais tarde, por volta do século X d.C., pelas comunidades muçulmanas. Aquando da Reconquista Cristã, no século XII, é de novo abandonado pelos seus ocupantes, só voltando a ter vida no século XIII, onde se estabeleceu um convento, que permanece até ao século XVI e cujo santo padroeiro deu o nome ao edifício que é hoje S. Cucufate.
Apesar de ter sido evacuada provavelmente com a ameaça de ruir, a villa manteve a sua capela, cujo culto foi perpetuado até ao século XVIII.
Monumento de altíssimo valor e extremamente bem conservado, a villa de S. Cucufate ficava situada na circunscrição administrativa de Pax Iulia, tendo esta cidade sido, provavelmente, a sua grande cliente no mercado de vinho, pão e de azeite, tendo este tipo de produção ficado atestado pela descoberta de grainhas de uvas perto de uns pesos de prensas, e pelo respectivo lagar.
The place where is located the Villa of S. Cucufate initiates is long and diversified history with the occupation of the place from the Final Neolithic period, having been later inhabited by a pré-roman population.
The roman Villa presents itself as the classic type of property of intense exploration, exclusively guided for the market. In archaeological terms is combined with the communication routes and nearby the cities. This type of property estimates the existence of a work force about 10/12 persons of servile condition or exempts, but not connected with the proprietary. So in the middle of I century AD has been held to build a villa, with conditions and sizes still too rustic, but that it guessed already the implantation or reconstruction of a new Villa adapted to the architectural, aesthetic and functional necessities of the time, namely the II century AD, constituting one of the few examples in Iberian Peninsula Villae cum turris.
The building is abandoned during the great barbarian invasions, and only comes back to be reoccupyed, later, around X century AD, by Muslim communities. During the Christian Reconquest, in the XII century, is again abandoned by its occupants, only to return to life in the XIII century, where was established a monastery, which remains until the XVI century and whose patron saint gave the name to the building which today is S. Cucufate.
Although it was probably evacuated with the threat of collapse, the village kept its chapel, whose cult was perpetuated until the XVIII century.
Monument of high value and extremely well preserved, the villa of S. Cucufate was located in the administrative district of Pax Iulia, this city has been, probably, its major customer in the market for wine, bread and olive oil, being this type of production become certified by the discovery of grape pips near some presses weights, and by the respective mill.
Local: Espaço das Américas, São Paulo
Data: 30 de setembro de 2018
Produção: Highway Star
Fotos: Caroline Dadalto