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Hubby says this has been here as long as he can remember. Now closed. There is a huge billboard casting a shadow.
Ames along Fellsway in Medford, MA., not too far from downtown Boston. This store actually began as Zayre in the late 1950's and was demolished for a relocated Stop & Shop in 2007.
Japanese guys have a tendency to piss wherever they want when drunk. This guy does not want anyone pissing on his property.
In Japanese-
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%e6%8e%92%e5%b0%bf
An explanation in English-
Tachisho-ben
It is not uncommon in our neighborhood to see men (especially older men) urinating in the street. Maybe because of the Nomiya, cheap drinking places, in our neighborhood. Even our landlord, not a man who doesn't possess a comfortable toilet at home, prefers the street. Why? A possible explanation in "Hundred Things Japanese":
"Tachisho-ben, the act of urinating in public, is typically Japanese only in that it is performed so much more openly and freely than in most other countries. Though there are occasionally enforced laws against the practice, it is still commonly encountered and had best be regarded as a typical part of the Japanese scene.
Typically, certainly, is the process of reasoning which permits tachisho-ben. Traditionally, the Japanese entertain a strong dichotomy between yours and mine - or more precisely, ours and theirs. Thus private politeness and public rudeness, and the other seeming paradoxes which have long observed by the apprehensive foreigner. The fact that no one practices tachisho-ben within the private garden but everyone does on the public street on the other side of the wall, is just another example of the dichotomy at work.
The garden belongs to us, or to the people we know, and must therefore be respected. The street, on the other hand, since it belongs to everybody belongs to no one and need not be respected at all. Also, the viewers of the tachisho-ben are either complaisant friends or else nameless strangers and, in either case if for entirely different reasons, censure is not to be expected.
There is another reason for this indulgence. Urban Japanese still cling to their rustic origins and are fond of calling even Tokyo a village, albeit an overgrown one. They secretly yearn for the rural life of a former age and admire behavior among their fellows which they feel to be natural, just as they admire a life which is natural, i.e. in tune with nature. To them the modern urban scene is not welcome, but only tolerated. No one would take a farmer to task for urinating in a stream or at a roadside while working in the paddies, and citified Japanese, recognizing the farmer in themselves, look upon those under the influence or nonchalantly relieving themselves in the street not entirely without approval, recalling perhaps a village life that once was, a life closer to nature and to the natural instincts of man.
Tachisho-ben thus joins a host of like manifestations (rowdy drunkenness in public, knocking people about in crowded trains and subways, public vomiting, etc.) which insist the civic ideal does not exist even though private politeness does."
---(Paul Richards in 'Hundred Things Japanese')
from
www.vincentvds.net/blog/archives/000176.html
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870403648/qid=106...
Argentina.
Buenos Aires.
La Boca.
Caminito ("little walkway" or "little path" in Spanish) is a street museum and a traditional alley, located in La Boca, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The place acquired cultural significance because it inspired the music for the famous tango "Caminito" (1926), composed by Juan de Dios Filiberto.
During the 1800s, a small stream flowing into the Riachuelo River ran along the same route where the Caminito is now. Later that century, this area of the stream became known as the Puntin, the Genoese diminutive term for bridge (a small bridge allowed people to cross the stream there). When the stream dried up, tracks for the Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Puerto de la Ensenada were installed at the site. Disused tracks remain at the end of Caminito, along Garibaldi Street.
In 1954, the railroad closed, and the area where Caminito was became a landfill and the neighborhood's eyesore. Over the following three years, Argentine artist Benito Quinquela Martín who lived nearby, painstakingly prepared the walls facing the abandoned street, applying pastel colors, and by 1960 had a stage put up at the southern end; the wooden-plank stage was replaced with a nearby theatre house in 1972. The artist was a personal friend of Argentine tango composer Juan de Dios Filiberto, who created a well-known 1926 tune by the same name.
In the darkness, always use a finger...
( while pouring oneself a glass)
With the office, we experimented a restaurant where you can eat in complete darkness. To live like blind people.
More info on the blind experience :
SIgn marking a crosswalk leading to my elementary school in San Jose, California.
Scanned color film negative
Holga 135 "Lomo" camera
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, California, USA.
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Alguien sabe la fecha de este concierto?
Does anyone know the days for this concert?
I took this photo at the now abandoned Miami Marine Stadium on August 16, 2011.
"It's like, the kids now, they're gonna grow up without Pac-Man. You know they won't have it at all. They won't even know what it is. And the worst part about it is, we'll be explaining it and looking like freaks.
'Well when I was your age... we had a game with a yellow circle, and it ate dots and fruit. And then it would be chased by GHOSTS! Oh My! Oh!'
'Yeah, thanks Grandpa...'
'...and there was another game with a monkey... and he threw barrels at you! And you had to jump over em or they'd hurt you!'
'yeah, I gotta go grandpa...'
'Wait! I didn't tell you about the frog who tries to cross the street. That game! That was the best! You have no idea...'"
~Nick Swardson