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UIS students create Rangoli--the art of creating patterns on the floor using colored powder and rice flour--inside the Student Life building. This was part of the Navratri or Nine Nights celebration on the UIS campus. Navratri, a Hindu holiday,celebrates the deity Durga.
Springfield Armory Museum, Springfield Massachusetts.
The Springfield Armory was established in 1777, at the request of George Washington and Henry Knox, to build weapons for the United States military. Another armory was established in Harper's Ferry Virginia. Harper's Ferry Armory was destroyed in the Civil War and was never rebuilt. The Springfield Armory was the major source of American weapons until it was closed in 1968.
This is the front of the Main Arsenal building which houses the museum.
When I was in high school in Springfield, Oregon, which was longer ago than I care to think about, cars like this were THE thing for the cool kids... one of which I was not.
Last week I visited my home town, and the same style of cars, in the same not-quite-running condition, continue to beautify driveways and side yards around the same neighborhoods.
I have no doubt that if I were to knock on the door of the house and ask the owner what he intended to do with this car, I'd get the same response I heard throughout my high school years: it just needs a little work and some wheels and tires and it will be worth a lot of money.
Other than the new construction, row after row of identical rental townhouses, this place is like some kind of weird Twilight Zone, forever stuck in the late 1970s.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
October 9's WHAT it is Wednesday was a cobbler's bench, used for shoemaking and repair. (The miniature version was a handcrafted piece in a frontier diorama scene that we were working on yesterday). We wanted to give you some tidbits from the museum and archives that represent the many many shoe stores and shoe repair shops that were in Springfield. Around 1950 there were FOURTEEN shoe stores in downtown Springfield alone! The 1949 Bill Swonger downtown models on the first floor of the museum show quite of few of those places. Models represented in the collage photo here: Nisley Shoe Company (in the Arcade), Patsiavos Shoe Repair (26 W. Main and Foster), and Dohan Shoes (15 E. Main Street). The last shoe place to leave the downtown was Carmen's Shoe Salon (24 E. Main) in 2000. Also in today's shoe related collage: a full-sized cobbler's bench from our collections, trade cards and ads from George Horner, P. O'Toole and Starkey & Scowden (in the Arcade), a birthday card and sign from Nisley Shoes, a postcard of their location in the Arcade, Nisley's arcade entrance, and the Nisley sign by Mattie Guthries just before the Arcade demolition. You can also see Christ Patsiavos' shoe shaped shoe repair place on the corner of N. Limestone and College, along with the Cat's Meow of the memorable building. In the top right corner of the collage is a picture of the Sterling Shoe Repair building that was located on the spot where Memorial Hall later stood at 300 W. Main Street.
Built in 1897-1898, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style building was designed by Francis T. Baron to serve as a Union Station for Springfield, Illinois. The station was a joint effort between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O Railroad), Chicago, Peoria, and St. Louis Railroad (CP&StL), and Illinois Central Railroad, and later served the short-lived St. Louis, Peoria and North Western Railway. The station’s original 110 foot (34 meter) tall three-story tower was removed in 1946, ten years after the clock faces had been deactivated as a cost-saving measure during the Great Depression. It served as a passenger train station until 1971, when service was discontinued, in favor of Amtrak utilizing the through-running station along the Chicago and Alton Railroad lines, later known as the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GMO), just a few blocks to the west of the station. The building features a multi-colored brick exterior with dark red and light red bricks present alongside buff brick, stone trim, arched bays, a hipped roof, hipped dormers, a large canopy on the Madison Street facade with brick piers and large brackets, which was the former passenger platform alongside the railroad tracks, and a reconstructed tower with four turrets, a pyramidal hipped roof, and four clock faces. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. After passenger train service was discontinued, the building served as offices for the State of Illinois until 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, the building was restored to its original exterior appearance, with the reconstruction of the clock tower and restoration of historic exterior elements. Today, the building serves as the visitor center for the nearby Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
This building was a house, then a corner grocery in the mid-twentieth century. Now its Panera Bread. At the corner of National and Elm in Springfield Missouri.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
I placed Springfield Falls near the beach and surrounded with a stream. The recent new items like the campfire and pond really complete this area for me. Created using AutoStitch Panorama on my iPhone.
Springfield Armory National Historic site in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Rick Springfield is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". His two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005 to 2008.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
A pair of switchers and a geep rest on the engine tracks at BNSF's yard in Springfield, MO.
March 8, 2008.
Rick Springfield is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". His two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005 to 2008.
Miok Fowler of Denver listens to a presentation during United Methodist Women’s Just Energy for All training Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church in Springfield, Illinois.
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This is a property in Springfield Road that my Great Grandparents once owned. Both my Great Grandmother and my Great Grandfather can be seen stood in the doorway of the 3-storey property. I think the bunting would've been to commemorate the coronation of King George VI in 1936. This could be right as I know my Great Grandparents lived in Meadowside during WW2 and the FOR SALE board can be seen clearly in the front garden behind the iron railings.
As a child I recall the property and the adjoining 2-storey property on the left and a later view of this house can be seen here:-
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at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
The Old State Capitol Building served as the capitol of the State of Illinois from 1839 until 1876. Abraham Lincoln spent a great deal of time here as a lawyer. Today it is a State Historic Site and the interior has been reconstructed to it's 1860 appearance.
Union Station was built in 1898 and was used primarily by the Illinois Central. It has been beautifully restored and re-opened as the Springfield Visitor Center in 2007.
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It took three years, but Karen Mathis' predictions for Springfield retail relief have finally arrived in the form of a new Walgreens store at 8th and Davis. Seen here as just an empty lot, the Walgreens will be a welcome addition to the the neighborhood. I could see that placing being mobbed by snack starved Shandsies. What a great place, in walking distance, to get basics.
Queen Anne House (1895–1905)
139-03 Springfield Blvd. (originally Springfield Rd.)
Springfield Gardens, Queens
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