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A Unified Command was established when Firefighters responded to a HazMat incident with an overturned semi on the southbound 405 Freeway. The tractor was carrying approximately 8600 gallons of butane. The container was righted without incident. © Photos by Juan Guerra

Pretty cool building. Just down the road is the Hinsdale Humane Society, the one time home of Morris the Cat!

 

Hinsdale IL / Symonds Drive

Post Office

App: Paper by 53 for iPad

Jaarmarktcross Niel

storm, fields, a bike and a rider make for some serious epic mud-racing.

Art is what you want it to be.

It's simple, (although I'm not sure how he does it so well), but it works...

Opeth - The Twilight is my Robe

 

"The birds of the sun

Seperates these dark clouds

While the winds of winter sleeps gently around

I am sworn to the oath

To breathe...

 

At the waters I dwell

The waves are still whispering

Ancient lullabies

I die....

While our mystic brothers still seek

 

Under your command I will obey

In my vision

You are the embodiment of pure freedom

But through my eyes you are made of stone"

 

Photo taken at night and heavily post processed. My camera is a rather crappy entry-level and with 200 ISO manages to yield a ridiculous amount of noise in "border-line" situations, such as poor lighting conditions. Nevertheless, I like the "watercolorish" effect I got from it and decided to upload the picture anyways. Cheers!

OWL POST, POST OFFICE, in Hogsmeade Village - Universal Studios, Orlando, USA.

You can just about see some of the owls and the bird cages in the window, just a shame a lot of people's reflections in the Florida sunshine mean you cannot see them very easily....very busy place !

Summer 2012

Telephone pole with more than its share of leftovers from countless garage sales.

This is the top of a wooden post

This is the post box in Near Sawrey that features in Peter Rabbit's Almanac.

© Blackpoulet, all rights reserved, 2011

Post office, Imlaystown, New Jersey - 1995. I believe this no longer serves as a post office. Kodachrome.

Bronx Central Annex-U.S. Post Office, Mott Haven, The Bronx

 

The Bronx Post Office, built in 1935-37, was designed by the architect Thomas Harlan Ellett in a style< which combined modified classical ornament with the elegant simplicity of modem architecture, A description in Architectural Forum for June 1938 states: "A distinct modem influence and the continuing tradition of "government classic' are the two conflicting tendencies which have resulted in the first signs of vitality in American post office design, and the new Bronx Post Office is an excellent example of best recent work ... the building subtly suggests a Georgian precedent without the use of traditional detail Plans for a much needed Bronx Post Office were announced in 1934; the building was to be erected at the Grand Concourse site which the Federal Government had purchased twenty-five years earlier.

 

Construction began in 1935 under the direction of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, Louis A..Simon, and of the Supervising Engineer, Neal A. Melick. The cornerstone was laid on June 13, 1936, with Postmaster General James A. Farley and New York City Postmaster Albert Goldman officiating. Farley made the occasion an opportunity to assail the critics of the New Deal. The same officials were present at the opening of the new building on May 15, 1937, when it was announced that the building would be known as the Bronx Central Annex and would serve as the Bronx headquarters of the New York Post Office.

 

The Post Office occupies an entire block. Its smooth gray brick walls rise above a granite terrace which varies in height along the side elevations to conform to the slope of the street. Broad, shallow steps lead up to the three entrances facing the Grand Concourse. The terrace is enclosed by a classically-inspired balustrade, flanked at the entrance steps by blocks decorated with highly stylized swags and rosettes and carrying flagpoles. The ornate foliate bronze flagpole bases have a rather baroque character.

 

The most prominent features of the building are the graceful window openings set within marble arches which contrast handsomely with the smooth gray brick walls. Radial brick arches, above impost block level, enframe the marble arches of the window openings. The three openings which contain the bronze entrances are set within deep reveals. The facades are crowned by a simple continuous stone bandcourse set with stylized rosettes and containing the inscription "Bronx - United States Post Office - New York."

 

Two sculptures, larger than life-size, affixed to the front facade add further interest to the building. The designs were chosen from over 400 models submitted in a national competition held in 1936. "The Letter," designed by Henry Kreis, portrays a mother and her child receiving a message from an absent member of the family, "Noah," by Charles Rudy, depicts the Patriarch, with a deer in one arm, straddling the Ark, and receiving the dove's message that the flood was subsiding. Also of considerable artistic and historical interest are thirteen murals in the main lobby depicting the occupations of American workers, painted by Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernards Bryson, in August 1939.

 

The elegant simplicity of the building with its finely exacted details make it one of the best examples of government architecture in this style* It is notable not only for its architecture but also for its sculpture and paintings. It met a long-felt need in The Bronx when built, and continues to serve that function today.

 

- From the 1976 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

York County. Photo by E Kalish, Jul. 2011.

Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.

Motorpsycho. Nuff said.

St. Petersburg Open Air Post Office.

 

5 exposure vertorama, hand stitched after perspective correction and manual blending. Gave up trying to make the final "roof shot" fit, so not quite 180° vertical view.

 

National Registry of Historic Places:

400 1st Ave N

4/4/75

#75000564

27°46'18"N 82°38'20"W

 

Comments and feedback welcome.

Contax RTS Vivitar 28mm f2.8

The Old Post Office.

 

Washington, DC.

Teil einer erneuten Fotoserie rund um den Posttower in Bonn.

 

Part of a new series of photographs around the Post Tower in Bonn.

Dade County. Photo by J Gallagher, Apr. 1998.

Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.

The rusted wire had cut deep into the split post...he stopped to examine the wood and oxidized steel, fused together in a decaying embrace. For a while they had become one. In time they would both return to the soil, dissolve in a slow journey back to the earth.

La compagnie Post-Scriptum pendant le festival de rue de Ramonville 2013

There's a bigger version available on my personal site.

Chicago's Old Post Office sat vacant for many years..and today- I took a look at one area inside- where- MY FURNITURE- is tucked away- on the Riverside....in a small beautifully furnished Sales Office- in a room-they call- The VAULT!

Pentax M* 300mm f4

the bruising is really starting to show today. Still weak, but up and walking around the house. Very happy to have visits from friends :)

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