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Like a lot of the urban fabric in the Pittsburgh area, the town of Monessen has seen dramatic cycles of boom and bust. Architectural treasures in the downtown like this former Monessen Savings and Trust building (more recently the Health Mart Discount Center) have gone from being historic landmarks to potential disasters. I always wanted to see and photograph this building but no longer live in Pennsylvania so I have had to settle for Google Streetview, as seen here in 2018. Recently I noticed on a couple of contact's Flickr pages that the building was being demolished. Here is some background information:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T263P39e1aUobserver-reporter.com/publications/monvalleymagazine/mone...
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/monessen-proceeds-wi...
Market Street in Brownsville, Pa. The building in the foreground with the ghost sign is now gone. In its place is the war memorial. The bridge you see to the left is very famous as the first cast iron bridge built in the United States in 1839.
"The Dunlap’s Creek Bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places (1978) and is also a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1978). Sherman Day wrote in his 1842 book, Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, “It is the only one of its kind and probably the most splendid piece of bridge architecture in the United States.”
"In an attempt to revitalize, the town has removed the buildings that blocked the view of the bridge. Brownsville’s former mayor, Norma Ryan, claims that the bridge is the town’s claim to fame and believes that, if the views to the bridge are restored, bridge enthusiasts from all over will come to see the first cast iron bridge in America." pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/DunlapsCreekBridge.html
Here is an article about the upcoming restoration of the bridge including a picture of how Dunlap's Creek looks with the removal of this building:
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/public-meeting-set-i...
Views of the bridge from the Library of Congress:
www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Photograph:%20pa1412&f...
Scanned from a film print
This is one of the historic buildings in Monessen, Pennsylvania that I have found interesting for a long time.It has sat empty for years and appeared to be headed for demolition. Well, unfortunately that happened a few weeks ago:
monvalleyindependent.com/2022/11/demolition-begins-on-mon...
The issue has been considered for the last five years:
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/monessen-building-de...
Like a lot of the urban fabric in the Pittsburgh area, the town of Monessen has seen dramatic cycles of boom and bust. A century ago the area was fueled by the coal, coke and steel industries. Architectural treasures in the downtown like this former hotel have gone from being historic landmarks to potential disasters. I always wanted to see and photograph this building but no longer live in Pennsylvania so I have had to settle for Google Streetview, as seen here in May of 2012.
Some films about the city of Monessen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJDZs_E90s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAAp6Po054
And a period piece that appears to be from the 1950's:
This has to be the original entry to this beautiful Italianate house that stood in Brownsville, Pa for many years. The arched panels in the door are a hallmark of period design as are the narrow windows on either side. Wide moldings in the trim and corbels are also typical Italianate details but the rounded pediment is a little more unusual.
The notice from the city on the side of the door reads:
"BROWNSVILLE BOROUGH - This building unsafe for human occupancy" Probably an invitation to local raccoons!
One of the properties that had been left to deteriorate, owned by the real estate investors, Ernest and Marilyn Liggett. They were not able to sell the 130 some properties that they owned in Brownsville, after speculation that there might be a riverboat casino in its future fell through. They were pretty much holding the town hostage as they could not fix up or sell the properties and many, like this one, had historical merit and are now gone. In the comments is another view of this house which shows the wonderful riverstone pillars that are here hidden under the ivy. For more info:
www.postgazette.com/columnists/20010408brian.asp
Update on the Liggets:
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/taking-stock-in-brow...
This is officially my family's lucky sign.
Last week, we had a crazy experience while traveling on I-5. We left Bellingham in the late morning to make the 200-mile trip south to Aberdeen where much of our family lives. We were going there for my nephew's birthday and my son, one year younger than my nephew, was excited to see his cousin again.
The traffic was unusually good and we made it through Seattle without hitting any traffic jams (unbelievably... Seattle's traffic sucks balls.) About 20 miles to the south of Seattle however, the traffic started to get heavier and eventually we found ourselves creeping along, bumper-to-bumper. It turns out that there had been a 7-vehicle accident to the south and all southbound lanes were closed.
As if that weren't bad enough, my wife noticed at one point that the "check gauges" light was flashing. The needle on the temperature gauge, normally near the middle at 195 degrees, was pushed over to the high end in the red. As if on cue, wisps of steam started coming out of the right side of the car's hood when we noticed the gauges. We were in the far left lane at the time and had to signal and shout to cars in other lanes who dutifully backed up and allowed us to cut diagonally across the 5 lanes. By the time we managed to pull off to the right shoulder, huge puffs of steam were blasting out of the car's hood. (It was an awful experience, but I felt even worse as the entire series of events scared my daughter to the point of tears. She thought the car was going to explode.)
Of course, it turns out it was just the car overheating. When you don't move for that long, the cooling system doesn't work efficiently and the water in your cooling system overheats and you get a startling eruption of steam, harmless for the most part. I pulled over and opened the hood to let the car cool down. Eventually, I opened the coolant reservoir and saw that all the water had evaporated. Our car has a very small reservoir and nothing was left. Not good.
So, there we were, stuck. My daughter was panicking, the car was giving up the ghost in the form of billowing clouds of steam, my wife on edge and very upset, the traffic was clogged and at an utter standstill, and it was clear we weren't going to make it to Aberdeen in time for my nephew's birthday, if at all.
And there we sat for the next four hours, traffic barely moving the whole time. We weren't alone. Other cars overheated too. Several behind us pulled over with steam billowing out of their hoods. Several ahead of us did as well.
What was really amazing was that the traffic jam brought out such kindness in total strangers. One woman got out of her van and walked across two lanes of still traffic and offered to call her husband at home to get a tow truck phone number for us if we needed it. Another woman came over and gave us a Disney storybook (she had noticed my son in the back seat and had been taking some books to donate them and thought he might want something to look at while we waited.)
I ended up striking up a conversation with a guy 20 feet behind us whose car had overheated. He was from Port Angeles and very friendly. He knew a lot about cars (unlike me) and explained to me why the overheating happened, why it was harmless, how I could drive for a while without coolant once the car cooled down, etc. It was good to have someone around to calm my nerves about everything, and he even offered to look under the hood of my car just to assure me that there was nothing else going on there that I needed to worry about.
Most remarkably, near the end of our four-hour ordeal, as traffic was just starting to creep forward again and as my wife and I were gearing up for the nerve-wracking prospect of driving our water-less car to the nearest gas station, some couple whose names I will likely never know shouted over to me and asked if we needed water.
I nodded. "Yes, I do." She waved me over to their truck while her husband, at the wheel, reached back and handed me a gallon sized jug of store-bought drinking water they had in their back seat. Not cheap, and not the stuff you'd normally waste in a car, but here it was. They were willingly turning it over to me to pour into my car.
"Thank you so much. You two are life-savers," I said. I didn't have much time to talk however and had to duck out of the traffic as it was gradually picking up again. Within a few minutes, they were gone, far enough down the road and lost in the stream of cars packed together, creeping forward. I had barely had enough time to thank them. I was speechless. Total strangers who owed me nothing, had nothing invested in my well-being, had just given me a gallon of their drinking water--water they had paid good money for.
Before we rejoined the traffic, I desperately looked for some way to put some positive spin on things. I asked my wife to get out her cellphone and take a picture of the exit sign we had sat next to for the last four hours. I dubbed it our lucky sign, and it would be a family tradition that future trips would include acknowledging this sign, on passing, for good luck. (We later made ourselves laugh by declaring that the run-down, squalid Shell station just off the exit had been our real destination all along thus our journey to visit it had been a complete success.)
Laughter or not, the experience was, overall, pretty awful, but this outpouring of kindness from people who neither knew me and my family nor expected anything in return was astonishing. Deanne and I talked about it on the way back (we ended up giving up on the trip and going back home as everyone was tired and stressed out.) We often see cars at the side of the road and never once had it occurred to us to stop and help the people in them. We just speed by with a shrug and think how glad we are that's not us stranded there.
That's an attitude I think I'll have to work on changing.
yes, our local weather man is bob odenkirk in disguise. the disguise? a crazy ice-cream tie. CHECK OUT THE TIE.
My photo's and videos of this Harbour Seal 17 miles inland on the Somerset Levels made the local and national news!
Read all about my crazy week in my brand new nature blog post here;
carlbovisnaturephotography.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-harbo...
03/09/10 - Burlington fire fighters battle a fully involved house fire at 624 Grace Avenue early Tuesday morning. This same house caught fire on January 14, 2010 after a space heater ignited nearby combustibles, no word on a cause, but officials are investigating. (Brad Coville/Times-News
This is a replica of what was found at the bottom of Puget Sound.
ivars.net/index.php?page=happenings_periscope
It turned to be a hoax.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010253767_ivars...
Second Beach on the coast of Washington and part of the Olympic National Park is the most beautiful beach I've yet visited.This beach has amazing seastacks and tide pools with over 2 miles of beach to walk, camp and simply to think while walking here. It's also had the parking lot and the 1 mile access trail closed by the Quileute Tribe because of a dispute that has not been resolved in over 1.5 years:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003445301_dispu....
I dedicate this photo to the hope that this beach can be opened again soon so that we can all enjoy this view again......
I don't remember exactly where these coke ovens were located or why there was red dog (I think that's what it is) piled in front as I have seen a lot of ovens but never with red dog. Here is a link about the byproduct that I remember being used for roads back in the 1950's:
"Red dog is coal waste that has been subjected to heat. The waste typically is a combination of very low quality coal and “carbonaceous” shale, or, black shale with a lot of carbon in it.
“The coal operators just piled this material up and let it sit. As a result of heat generated within the piles, the carbonaceous material ‘burned’ in a low-oxygen environment, kind of like what happens in a coke oven. Some of the rock turned red as a result.
“Eventually, some enterprising companies began mining the red dog piles to use as inexpensive road paving material. My grandfather used it on the driveway to his farm near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, as did many others who lived in rural Western Pennsylvania.”
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/dog-days-when-in-wes...
Scanned from a film print
Going, gone, going. It is a sad day in Seattle.
Sunset Bowl says goodbye with bang — of auctioneer's gavel
Sunset Bowl, Ballard
Expired Polaroid 600/Polaroid SX-70
For day three of Roid Week 2008
This was pictured on June 16, 2008 in the local paper, The Press Enterprise, as part of a collection of stories highlighting gay couples that are to wed after the Supreme Court ruling passed last month. www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_coupl...
07/12/09 - People talk with police outside the VFW Hall in the 200 block of Webb St. Sunday July 12, 2009 after two women were shot inside the hall. Both victims were flown to the Hospital with serious injuries. (Brad Coville/Times-News)
Community art collage created by Adrian Wallett made from 183 Post-It Notes from around the World from many artists.
This project took me around 10 months to begin and finally complete. I used the power of the internet to gain Post-it Note artwork from across the globe from a wide variety of very talented artists.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that took part and helped create such an amazing collage.
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I'll give you a topic: Surprise: Denny's declared landmark. Discuss. :)
Denny's, Ballard
Expired Polaroid 600/Polaroid SX-70
For day four of Roid Week 2008
Today it feels like summer is here. A gorgeous day in the city and everyone and their dog is out. Around noon my friend Kris and I walked to the market to browse around, shop and we even managed to get in for lunch at Steelhead Diner.
This is a shot from one of the two rolls developed from today. I just uploaded some of the negative scans to my computer but this one in particular strikes me as the perfect example of the mood in the city today: happy, warm, friendly, people out and about enjoying themselves. A perfect day to be a tourist in Seattle, whether one is a local or otherwise.
Ilford Super XP2 400 (C-41) on Canonet QL-17 G-III
Dallas, TX;
2009 update: restored and moved to another location in Addison:
www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/...
File: 2021001-0013
Somewhere around the Worcestershire Beacon, Malvern Hills, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, likely to be in the Summer, circa 1985 to circa 1995.
About this photograph.
This is a British firefighter on an emergency call-out to fight a wildfire on the Malvern Hills. He is seen in the photograph climbing up a slope and through some small trees, while carrying a hose to reach an area of small fire farther uphill.
Only one side of a single hill was on fire, it was not an extreme inferno, but simply a very large patch of fire coving almost half of one side of the slope, and the weather was hot, but not a heatwave.
The Country of Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade were on a call-out to go up the hills, and attempt to fight the fire. They had managed to get the fire under control, while many people were still hiking and walking all over the hills.
The photographs were taken with a Minolta X-700 35mm SLR film camera, possibly with a 28-200mm zoom lens, and either a Kodak or Agfa colour film.
I am unable to remember the date, let alone the year, as I have lost my notes, but I know it had to be sometime between 1985 to 1995, during the summer. This is because 1985 is the year I got my X-700 and 1996 is the year I moved to a new home (explained below).
About the event.
At that time, I lived with my parent in a top floor apartment, with a view to the Worcestershire Beacon, thus if there was a fire on the hills, I would see smoke. This is when I decided to grab my camera and head up to the hills to try some photojournalism-style photography.
In those days, health and safety rules were a bit lax, there were people still going for walks up and down the hills even when the firefighters were trying to get the fire under control.
There weren’t any police officers trying to get people off the hills, and the civilians were simply going for a walk, this was why I was able to freely move around and try to take some shots of the firefighters.
The colour shots were sent off for developing and printing, as I only develop and print black and white myself.
About 30 years later, the prints were scanned to the computer, using a Brother A3 multi-function printer/copier/scanner/fax machine, so I could upload them to my Flickr Photostream.
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U.S. Senator Roy Blunt speaking at the State Historical Society of Missouri's annual meeting in Columbia, Missouri. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.0 with a 1/60-second exposure at ISO 1250. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill speaking at the State Historical Society of Missouri's annual meeting in Columbia, Missouri. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.0 with a 1/60-second exposure at ISO 1250. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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NASA941 lands in Seattle bringing the Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer to the Museum of Flight. seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018546338_shutt...
The team of about 25 activists are part of an organization called GhostCycle, which has spent the past three months collecting online submissions of bicycle accidents across the city.
The group mapped the locations of about 140 accidents. Then, under cover of darkness, they placed 40 painted bikes at collision sites, each with an ominous sign reading "A cyclist was struck here."
The project highlights many of the areas around the city that are dangerous for bicyclists. The goal: To improve the safety of city streets for cycling.
Source from The Seattle Times
May 15, 2019 - Entrance Gate to the ABC 7 Eyewitness News Station and Headquarters in Glendale, CA. Jonathan and I had a VIP Tour of the ABC 7 Eyewitness News Station and Headquarters in Glendale, CA.
The famous sign from the Coyle awaits restoration, supposedly it will be stored in a nearby building then, once repaired, displayed somewhere in town.
observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/historic-sign-saved-...