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This past week, local artist, and proprietor of Kansas City's West Bottoms hobby shop Doc's Caboose, Doc Snyder passed away at the age of 62.
A few days after the news came out, I stopped by to pay my respects to the shop that I've spent countless hours in over the years. Ever since I moved to the region after college, it's been my go-to shop in the region for supplies, and comradery. For those of you who have just come to know the West Bottoms recently, it wasn't nearly as gentrified 20 years ago. Doc was a trendsetter here in the urbanization of his business and studio when it came to KC, and I was more than happy to support his efforts.
This isn't to say that the shop is closing, but it certainly won't be the same without its namesake around anymore. You can visit their website here: docscaboose.biz/
As it was, I found it to be quite fitting that while I was on site, the NS 7630 rolled west by me on UP's KC Metro Sub towards 18th St. Yard. As you can tell, the shop has quite the view of the Main.
High Greens, Doc!
This photograph is from the Robert Sanderson collection.
which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. A poultry store in Newcastle upon Tyne displays their Christmas birds. This is a 35mm slide. It was taken in 1965.
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Who needs an inner-city IKEA?
“Frappant” Building in Hamburg-Altona situated in the Neue Grosse Bergstrasse, opened in 1973 as part of a highly praised and worldwide noticed concept of inner-city shopping and as a state of the art 70’s architecture. The world war two shaken and bombed street stood for a new and modern approach in which the gigantic building stood as a landmark. Already two years later and as an impact of the ‘73 oil crisis and its effects on business, the concept came to crisis, due to simple lack of profit. Different companies and enterprises tried to reprofit and revitalize the building, but failed through the years. Meanwhile the concept of concrete casted moderness also came to crisis and the last remaining retailer Karstadt left the building in 2003. The empty building, now under real estate speculation and not properly maintained, was then used by artists, musicians and alternative music-clubs, while the city was still unsuccessfully looking for new investors. Suspicious about the now alternative, non-profit but vital use of the building, the ECA, a local lobby group of business and politicians, started labeling the building as an eyesore and pressure was build up to tear it down. Politicians (including the Green Party) then offered the building to IKEA, that had already focused on another spot closer the motorway and never dreamed of such an offer. This decision then led to wide protest among the local population, fearing gentrification through higher rents and increasing pollution from Ikea traffic. Politicians and lobby groups now unsure of the developing resistance, staged a referendum in the district, under the suggestive question: Are you in favour of a new Ikea in Altona, that will sustainable vitalize and increase attractiveness of the Grosse Bergstrasse. An assertion that has yet to be proofed. Pro-Ikea, winning the referendum by 77%, gave way to IKEA to buy and build. With this decision, alternative concepts of a low and non-profit use were binned and to avoid squatting the whole building was soon demolished by the district.
Meanwhile, Ikea not having even started to build their 7 stories inner-city big-box, shop and resident rents in the area are leveling up and the first old shops already had to close or go. The area now started to become an investment-ground for real estate and with the rising of the Ikea building site, whole plans to restructure other parts of the street are in full affect.
The topic is as controversial and polarized as it was from the very start: Critics claim, that Ikea will not just bring traffic and pollution, but also and more important, a total change of the local structure, both in local business as in housing. It is feared that other chain companies like Starbucks , H&M and others will eventually destroy the local shops and social structure. It is also criticized that a box is replaced by a box, making the street even more narrow and shady. The resistance against IKEA not merely is a resistance against the company, but also a struggle for Altona-Altstadt, their diverse and not very wealthy population, their wellbeing and their very own right to the city.
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This photograph is part of the Shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1960 - 1977 collection which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Taken by Ronald Sanderson, this is a photograph of Spiller's flour mill at Gateshead Quay, with cranes alongside the river. The photograph was probably taken in1960. It is a 35mm slide.
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Judy Ortiz Rizek is owner and president of The Circuit Shop in Albuquerque, a small, woman-owned business that contracts with Sandia National Laboratories. Rizek says being a Sandia supplier has helped her company grow in size and skill. “Sandia is amazing,” she says. “It has given us every opportunity in the circuit board industry. The lab stretches us to become better and better.”
Learn more at bit.ly/31BwV24.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
Date: ca.1910
Category: Cawston
Type: Image
Identifier: LP0588
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If you haven't heard about blinker fluid, look it up on YouTube. Another clever sign from a local ophthalmology business.
Who needs an inner-city IKEA?
“Frappant” Building in Hamburg-Altona situated in the Neue Grosse Bergstrasse, opened in 1973 as part of a highly praised and worldwide noticed concept of inner-city shopping and as a state of the art 70’s architecture. The world war two shaken and bombed street stood for a new and modern approach in which the gigantic building stood as a landmark. Already two years later and as an impact of the ‘73 oil crisis and its effects on business, the concept came to crisis, due to simple lack of profit. Different companies and enterprises tried to reprofit and revitalize the building, but failed through the years. Meanwhile the concept of concrete casted moderness also came to crisis and the last remaining retailer Karstadt left the building in 2003. The empty building, now under real estate speculation and not properly maintained, was then used by artists, musicians and alternative music-clubs, while the city was still unsuccessfully looking for new investors. Suspicious about the now alternative, non-profit but vital use of the building, the ECA, a local lobby group of business and politicians, started labeling the building as an eyesore and pressure was build up to tear it down. Politicians (including the Green Party) then offered the building to IKEA, that had already focused on another spot closer the motorway and never dreamed of such an offer. This decision then led to wide protest among the local population, fearing gentrification through higher rents and increasing pollution from Ikea traffic. Politicians and lobby groups now unsure of the developing resistance, staged a referendum in the district, under the suggestive question: Are you in favour of a new Ikea in Altona, that will sustainable vitalize and increase attractiveness of the Grosse Bergstrasse. An assertion that has yet to be proofed. Pro-Ikea, winning the referendum by 77%, gave way to IKEA to buy and build. With this decision, alternative concepts of a low and non-profit use were binned and to avoid squatting the whole building was soon demolished by the district.
Meanwhile, Ikea not having even started to build their 7 stories inner-city big-box, shop and resident rents in the area are leveling up and the first old shops already had to close or go. The area now started to become an investment-ground for real estate and with the rising of the Ikea building site, whole plans to restructure other parts of the street are in full affect.
The topic is as controversial and polarized as it was from the very start: Critics claim, that Ikea will not just bring traffic and pollution, but also and more important, a total change of the local structure, both in local business as in housing. It is feared that other chain companies like Starbucks , H&M and others will eventually destroy the local shops and social structure. It is also criticized that a box is replaced by a box, making the street even more narrow and shady. The resistance against IKEA not merely is a resistance against the company, but also a struggle for Altona-Altstadt, their diverse and not very wealthy population, their wellbeing and their very own right to the city.
In keeping with the Christmas season...
Every year one of the local businesses erects this star above its building, proclaiming the Christmas message so simply and beautifully. I especially like the Cross in the center, reminding the viewer that Christ's birth led to His life and then His death and resurrection, bringing hope and salvation for all humanity!
I snapped this same star last year, but as I drove to work this morning, I noticed the moon right next to it! Of course my car automatically pulled over to the side of the road, allowing me to get out and capture the scene :)
Taken at dawn...
Sandia's Entrepreneurial Separation to Transfer Technology program helped Joe Beck and Eric Branson, both former employees, launch their small business.
Albuquerque-based Advanced Manufactured Power Solutions, or AMPS, custom-builds battery packs, cables and other small components of larger machines. The three-year-old company reached a significant growth milestone recently with its first out-of-state contract, a project for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
For 25 years, ESTT has promoted the creation of innovative small businesses by allowing staff to leave the labs with a guaranteed job waiting if they return within two years. Spinoff tech companies such as AMPS create high-paying jobs that help stimulate local economies.
Learn more at bit.ly/2YtJc6N.
Photo by Randy Montoya
Wright's Biscuits being transported to and from the factory. Photograph taken by Turners Photographic of Newcastle.
Wright’s Biscuits was a well known company in South Shields, South Tyneside. Set up as a maker of biscuits, they started out by supplying their stock to ships in 1790, but after a fall in demand, Wright's turned to making more up-market biscuits. Wright's Biscuit factory closed in 1973.
Turner’s was established in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1900s. It was originally a chemists shop but in 1938 become a photographic dealer. Turners went on to become a prominent photographic and video production company in the North East of England. They had 3 shops in Newcastle city centre, in Pink Lane, Blackett Street and Eldon Square. Turner’s photographic business closed in the 1990s.
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Who needs an inner-city IKEA?
“Frappant” Building in Hamburg-Altona situated in the Neue Grosse Bergstrasse, opened in 1973 as part of a highly praised and worldwide noticed concept of inner-city shopping and as a state of the art 70’s architecture. The world war two shaken and bombed street stood for a new and modern approach in which the gigantic building stood as a landmark. Already two years later and as an impact of the ‘73 oil crisis and its effects on business, the concept came to crisis, due to simple lack of profit. Different companies and enterprises tried to reprofit and revitalize the building, but failed through the years. Meanwhile the concept of concrete casted moderness also came to crisis and the last remaining retailer Karstadt left the building in 2003. The empty building, now under real estate speculation and not properly maintained, was then used by artists, musicians and alternative music-clubs, while the city was still unsuccessfully looking for new investors. Suspicious about the now alternative, non-profit but vital use of the building, the ECA, a local lobby group of business and politicians, started labeling the building as an eyesore and pressure was build up to tear it down. Politicians (including the Green Party) then offered the building to IKEA, that had already focused on another spot closer the motorway and never dreamed of such an offer. This decision then led to wide protest among the local population, fearing gentrification through higher rents and increasing pollution from Ikea traffic. Politicians and lobby groups now unsure of the developing resistance, staged a referendum in the district, under the suggestive question: Are you in favour of a new Ikea in Altona, that will sustainable vitalize and increase attractiveness of the Grosse Bergstrasse. An assertion that has yet to be proofed. Pro-Ikea, winning the referendum by 77%, gave way to IKEA to buy and build. With this decision, alternative concepts of a low and non-profit use were binned and to avoid squatting the whole building was soon demolished by the district.
Meanwhile, Ikea not having even started to build their 7 stories inner-city big-box, shop and resident rents in the area are leveling up and the first old shops already had to close or go. The area now started to become an investment-ground for real estate and with the rising of the Ikea building site, whole plans to restructure other parts of the street are in full affect.
The topic is as controversial and polarized as it was from the very start: Critics claim, that Ikea will not just bring traffic and pollution, but also and more important, a total change of the local structure, both in local business as in housing. It is feared that other chain companies like Starbucks , H&M and others will eventually destroy the local shops and social structure. It is also criticized that a box is replaced by a box, making the street even more narrow and shady. The resistance against IKEA not merely is a resistance against the company, but also a struggle for Altona-Altstadt, their diverse and not very wealthy population, their wellbeing and their very own right to the city.
Several masseuses were at the place, but the moment I raised my camera, all of them disappeared into the shadows, saying 'no no no', except these two. Charming souls. This was a 100% reputable place, 100% therapeutic massage, no naughty stuff. The manageress at the counter was very well educated. She spoke perfect English, asked me where I was from, how I liked Cambodia,and then urged me to write good things about the country and her people so that more and more people will visit her country etc. Charming! (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Apr/ May 2014)
Seeded sourdough
The Wright Place
19 Walmgate
York
Y01 9TX
11.02.2023 10:25 GMT
50mm 1/100 sec f/13 ISO 800
HIP Club 52 week photography challenge
Week 7 : Texture
Small business somewhere on St. Kitts. This interesting composition literally jumped out at me during a ride in the countryside.
The facade of the Avery Fine Perfumery in the Warehouse District serves as a masterclass in the adaptive reuse of New Orleans' industrial vernacular. This shot captures the rhythmic, grid-like geometry of the original factory-style fenestration, where multi-paned steel windows dominate the weathered red brickwork. I opted for a strict, orthographic-adjacent perspective, flattening the three-dimensional volume of the building into a textured study of repetition and decay. By centering the "Avery Fine Perfumery" signage above the primary portal, the image highlights the tension between the building’s rugged, utilitarian past and its sophisticated, artisanal present.
Notice how the patina of the brick—faded by the humid Gulf climate—and the remnants of white lime wash on the lower level create a painterly surface quality. The choice of a tight, frontal crop emphasizes the building as an "object," stripping away the surrounding streetscape to focus on the interplay of masonry and glass. It’s an interpretation that values the wabi-sabi of the urban environment, where the structural honesty of the 19th-century warehouse provides a grounded, "industrial-chic" backdrop for the ephemeral nature of high-end fragrance.
Signs, local businesses and familiar logos of Ocean City, Maryland, part I ~ delmarvausa.blogspot.com/2016/01/neon-signs-of-ocean-city...
Date: 1914-1920
Category: Cawston
Type: Image
Identifier: LP0579
Source: Unknown
Owner: South Pasadena Public Library
Previous Identifier: ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1r29q8g8 /
csp_302
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Who needs an inner-city IKEA?
“Frappant” Building in Hamburg-Altona situated in the Neue Grosse Bergstrasse, opened in 1973 as part of a highly praised and worldwide noticed concept of inner-city shopping and as a state of the art 70’s architecture. The world war two shaken and bombed street stood for a new and modern approach in which the gigantic building stood as a landmark. Already two years later and as an impact of the ‘73 oil crisis and its effects on business, the concept came to crisis, due to simple lack of profit. Different companies and enterprises tried to reprofit and revitalize the building, but failed through the years. Meanwhile the concept of concrete casted moderness also came to crisis and the last remaining retailer Karstadt left the building in 2003. The empty building, now under real estate speculation and not properly maintained, was then used by artists, musicians and alternative music-clubs, while the city was still unsuccessfully looking for new investors. Suspicious about the now alternative, non-profit but vital use of the building, the ECA, a local lobby group of business and politicians, started labeling the building as an eyesore and pressure was build up to tear it down. Politicians (including the Green Party) then offered the building to IKEA, that had already focused on another spot closer the motorway and never dreamed of such an offer. This decision then led to wide protest among the local population, fearing gentrification through higher rents and increasing pollution from Ikea traffic. Politicians and lobby groups now unsure of the developing resistance, staged a referendum in the district, under the suggestive question: Are you in favour of a new Ikea in Altona, that will sustainable vitalize and increase attractiveness of the Grosse Bergstrasse. An assertion that has yet to be proofed. Pro-Ikea, winning the referendum by 77%, gave way to IKEA to buy and build. With this decision, alternative concepts of a low and non-profit use were binned and to avoid squatting the whole building was soon demolished by the district.
Meanwhile, Ikea not having even started to build their 7 stories inner-city big-box, shop and resident rents in the area are leveling up and the first old shops already had to close or go. The area now started to become an investment-ground for real estate and with the rising of the Ikea building site, whole plans to restructure other parts of the street are in full affect.
The topic is as controversial and polarized as it was from the very start: Critics claim, that Ikea will not just bring traffic and pollution, but also and more important, a total change of the local structure, both in local business as in housing. It is feared that other chain companies like Starbucks , H&M and others will eventually destroy the local shops and social structure. It is also criticized that a box is replaced by a box, making the street even more narrow and shady. The resistance against IKEA not merely is a resistance against the company, but also a struggle for Altona-Altstadt, their diverse and not very wealthy population, their wellbeing and their very own right to the city.