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12300 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 201, Patrick Henry Mall, Newport News, VA
This location opened in 2016 (originally located here) and closed on February 26th, 2019; it was originally a Hair Cuttery, which opened in October 1987 and closed in 2015. It became Mere Words and Expressions in 2021, which closed in 2024.
I learned that my friend Libi had passed away yesterday and her passing sent me rummaging through my archives for images I had of her. My friend, and Libi's son, Matt had his 50th birthday party a few years back and asked if I would take some photos to remember the occasion. This is still one of my favs from the night with mother and son dancing and serenading each other as the mariachis played on. RIP Libi. The world is a little emptier today without you here. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)
I was just a little guy when this happened. I remember going to HerPak Meats, (Cameron St), Dad parked in the upper lot of Acme Markets (Hbg River Rescue Quarters) and they set up cattle chutes across Cameron and herded the live stock to the Acme building.
Formed: June 14, 1972 | Dissipated: June 23, 1972.
Agnes developed on June 14 from the interaction of a polar front and an upper trough over the Yucatán Peninsula. Agnes began its long life as an extratropical cyclone once cold air invaded its circulation late on June 22. The system looped across south-central Pennsylvania on June 23 and then looped across southern Ontario on June 25. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973.
In Pennsylvania, heavy rainfall was reported, with much of the state experiencing more than 7 inches of precipitation. Furthermore, a large swath of rainfall exceeding 10 inches was reported in the central part of the state. Overall, the rains peaked at 19 inches in the western portions of Schuylkill County. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973. Overall, more than 100,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to flooding. Some buildings were under 13 feet of water in Harrisburg. At the Governor's Mansion, the first floor was submerged by flood waters. Hundreds were trapped in their homes in Wilkes-Barre due to the overflowing Susquehanna River. At the historic cemetery in Forty Fort, 2,000 caskets were washed away, leaving body parts on porches, roofs, and in basements. In Luzerne County alone, 25,000 homes and businesses were either damaged or destroyed. Losses in that county totaled to $1 billion. At Chadds Ford Township, the Brandywine Creek crested at 16.5 feet, sending flood waters into the city. Water poured into the first floor of an art museum in Chadds Ford Township, which threatened at least $2.5 million in N.C. Wyeth paintings, though they were quickly moved to the upper floors. Along the Allegheny River, it was above flood stage in some low-lying areas. During the height of the storm, the river was rising at about 7 inches per hour. In Reading, the Schuylkill River reached a record flood of 31.5 feet.
More than one hundred Harrisburg YMCA campers and staff were evacuated using two CH-47 Chinook helicopters flown by the National Guard at Camp Shikellimy located downstream of DeHart Dam in Middle Paxton Township. Additionally, 36 Girl Scouts were rescued by state police while at a camp in York. A bridge collapsed in Danville, which caused two diesel locomotives and several freight cars to fall into a swollen creek. In the state of Pennsylvania, more than 68,000 homes and 3,000 businesses were destroyed. Due to the destroyed houses, at least 220,000 people were left homeless.The damage and death toll was the highest in Pennsylvania, with 50 fatalities and $2.3 billion in losses in that state alone. Willow Mill Amusement Park in Mechanicsburg was also damaged, including the Red Streaker, a defunct junior small wooden rollercoaster, which was severely damaged and had to be rebuilt.
On June 26, 1972, three news correspondents were killed in a helicopter crash in Harrisburg, where they had been covering the flooding. The victims were Del Vaughn of CBS News and Sid Brenner and Louis Clark of WCAU in Philadelphia, and the pilot, Mike Sedio. The helicopter lost its rotor some three hundred feet above the Capital City Airport, crashed, and exploded on the runway.
Following the storm, then-President of the United States Richard Nixon declared the states of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York as disaster areas. Agnes had a devastating impact on the already-bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States, as lines were washed out and shipments were delayed:
The Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) estimated that damage between Binghamton and Salamanca, New York, amounted to $2 million. EL filed for Chapter 77 bankruptcy.
The Penn Central Railroad sustained nearly $20 million in damages
The resulting cost of repairing the damage was one of the factors leading to the creation of the federally financed Conrail.
Most pictures are photo's I took of pictures from collectors books from the 1972 flood.
This is Leo. We had the pleasure of his company for 16 years. This was taken when he was about 9 months old. We were living in Bristol at the time (30 years ago!!) Phill and I were coming home one night, it was pouring with rain and we found two kittens huddled together on a step of a derelict building. They looked like drowned rats. We took them in "just for the night" and they remained with us for the next 16 years. They were feral cats and whereas Leo's brother Bunny became a loving lap cat, Leo never quite lost his wildness. He was a 'ten house' cat, visiting everyone in the neighbourhood for food. He only ever came home when he needed the vet which was frequently. He was run over (broken pelvis), tail broken, two abcesses, two tumours (both benign and host of other calamaties. He was a complete glutton and would eat so quickly he would throw up. I can remember looking out of our window one day just to see him climbing into a removal truck across the road. I decided to put a metal name tag on him (he chewed it off - really!!). When we moved to Southampton we couldn't take the cats with us immediately. My sister who also lived in Bristol at the time said she would look after them. After a couple of days she rang to say Leo had disapppeared. There was no sign off him. Three days later a neighbour from where we had been living rang my sister to say that Leo had turned up. He had walked the 3 miles across a busy city back to our old flat.
When he became ill with kidney problems we were treating him with medicine, but one day he just disappeared and never came back. His 'brother' Bunny would sit on the back of the sofa and howl constantly after this. Then about a year later Bunny became ill. Phill was sitting in the garden one day when he saw Bunny go through the hedge. He looked back at Phill and then disappeared - never to return. It is said that cats sometimes go off to die and I think this may be true of feral cats. I will always believe that Bunny and Leo chose their own time to leave us.
On Saturday night we are going to Phill's best friend's 60th birthday party, so we will be seeing lots of old friends.
The forecast is sun and blue skies - yipee!
Happy Furry Friday everyone
Have a lovely weekend x
Some scenes from Arlington. When I was there it was fittingly somber with overcast skies and a light sprinkle of rain.
It is good to remember them and their families sacrifice.
Mr. Clark is a facinating man. In his lifetime, he experienced first hand racial injustice in his own country. Despite the difficulties he faced, he perservered and today is a man highly respected in his community. I've had the honor to work with him in a small group that discussed race and racism in our community. We learned a lot from one another. And what I like best about Mr. Clark is that he is willing to share his past experiences, not to open old wounds, but rather to inform so that history doesn't repeat itself.
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" --Martin Luther King, Jr.
In America, February is set aside as Black History Month. To learn more: African American History Month
Listen to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am trying to remember how to use my camera after not using it for 18 months. Getting the Maybe Mushroom wall paint to be the correct color in photos in going to be a problem
Such portraits with a natural smile and forward leaning posture are reminiscent of iconic shots of stars from the 60s to 80s, where this style was used to express spontaneity and natural beauty.
(private TFP photo shooting)
not only those that are represented here, but also the Veterans that live among us. Many of them never say a word about the things they have seen and done. They ask for no special recognition. Whether in time of war or peace, they served with pride, honor, courage and commitment.
Some gave all, all gave some. We shall remember.
steps down the stepwell near jahaz mahal (ship palace).
see my best of doors, windows & corridors @ www.flickr.com/photos/nevilzaveri/sets/72157602795428179/
I went to Fort San Pedro yesterday. One of the historical places here in Cebu for the first time. I remember Intramuros in Manila.
Fuerza de San Pedro is a military defence structure, built by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers under the command of Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi and the Spanish Government in Cebu. It is located in the area now called Plaza Indepedencia, in the Pier Area of Cebu City, Philippines.
The smallest, oldest triangular bastion fort in the country was built in 1738 to repel Muslim raiders.
Forgive me, I just love History :) <3
Remembering Italia '90 with soccer pundits Bill O'Herlihy, Eamon Dunphy and John Giles at the Avivia Stadium on 16 April, 2015. Attendees reminisced about the glory days of 1990 when the whole country, like the characters in The Van, went football mad.
Remembering Italia '90 with soccer pundits Bill O'Herlihy, Eamon Dunphy and John Giles at the Avivia Stadium on 16 April, 2015. Attendees reminisced about the glory days of 1990 when the whole country, like the characters in The Van, went football mad.
Built in 2012, this one-of-a-kind 9/11 Memorial features a twisted piece of steel “floating” in the center, 30 tons of American granite as the towers, and a bright eternal flame at its base.
Curlew Hills Memorial Garden
Palm Harbor, FL
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The photograph shows the village of Pali and its harbour, on the volcanic Dodecanese Greek island of Nisyros in the Aegean Sea. In the background the island of Gyali, also volcanic, and beyond that, on a clearer day one would make out the south coast of Kos.
On our 1,000 mile sailing trip from Croatia to Turkey we had decided to stop off and tie up on the town quay in Pali (we are the third boat from the right) on Nisyros to rest-up for 24 hours as we had heard the island was home to a currently active (but not erupting) volcano, which might be worth checking out.
What we found and loved about Nisyros was that it was the most friendly, hospitable place one could imagine.
Following arrival we walked into the village for a spot of lunch at the local taverna and after consuming a satisfying selection of Greek antipasto and a plate of freshly caught, deep fried squid in batter we enquired about where we could hire a car in order to visit the volcano. Without any hesitation the Patrons of this wonderful establishment offered us the use of their own car, and declined to take a penny for it. Where else in the world one would find this kind of hospitality is difficult to know.
However, in an effort to repay this kindness the "crew" returned to the taverna that evening for more food and in the course of the evening, along with many friendly locals, virtually drank the place dry of every type of Greek alcoholic beverage known to man.
What a day, what a night! End result, 24 hours that is still fresh in the memory many years later.
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"Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
to fields which don't explode beneath the feet
of running children in nightmare heat"
Extract from War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy.
That is one of my favourite poems.
R.I.P to all soldiers British, Allied or our enemies. Because all the enemys dead should be remembered too. Because they we're just ordinary men exactly like all the allied troops, they loved the same things and probably shared similar beliefs.I think that is well illistrated in the fact they played football together on Christmas, and for one day they were just men, not nationalities, being men and enjoying themselves side by side. I don't believe your nationality has any effect on the type of person you are, wether you are good or bad, most people want peace and just to lead an ordinary happy life. Neither sides soldiers want what happened.
Today makes me think of the conflicts in Afghanistan and between Isreal and Palestine, and i just wish they could find some way of comprimise, no more people need to die.
I got my film back from boots today :)
This isn't the best but obviously it holds a paticular relevance to today.
I will try to find out the location of this field because its actually incredible, poppies as far as the eye can see. I know it somewhere between Poole and Bristol.
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