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Joint build by Joshua Stewart and myself.
My contributions:
Town Hall
Duff Brewery
Blocko LEGO Store
Krusty Burger
Toxic Pond
Tire Yard
Moe's Tavern
King Toots Music Store
Android's Dungeon and Baseball Card Shop
The Homer
School Bus
Mr Plow
Generic Brown Car
Platform canopy and architecture; we have a little bit of time before we get on 479. Most of the travelers will be getting off in Berlin CT.
Retomando a ordem cronológica e normalmente atrasada desta Galeria.... Foto de Setembro! :-P
Este lindÃssimo Springfield serviu de base para uma combinação a postar em breve e ao princÃpio nem havia a intenção de o mostrar por aqui ( somente numa foto de comentários ), mas ele merece o destaque: cobriu com UMA só camada e ainda secou assim fantasticamente brilhoso e em tempo recorde!
Por isso digam lá que ele não tinha o direito à "distinção" ?
E além disso... que tom maravilhoso! Amei! <3 <3 <3
Dutch postcard. Photo: Phonogram.
Dusty Springfield (1939-1999) was a British singer whose style and husky voice emulated the Motown sounds she adored. Hailed as Britain's 'best ever pop singer' by Rolling Stone, she charted several 1960s hits, including I Only Want to Be With You and Son of a Preacher Man. Her peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, heavy make-up, and flamboyant performances on the black and white television of the 1960s, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
Dusty Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in London, England, in 1939. She was given the nickname 'Dusty' for playing football with boys in the street, and was described as a tomboy. Born in a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. She teamed up with her older brother Dion (later known as Tom), singing with him in their parents' garage. At the age of twelve, she made a recording of herself performing the Irving Berlin song 'When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam' at a local record shop in Ealing. After finishing school, Springfield sang with Tom in local folk clubs. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters. With her brother and a friend, she formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, in 1960. The Springfields disbanded in late 1963, allowing Dusty to launch a successful solo career. The run of success began just months after The Springfields ended, with the January 1964 hit I Only Want to Be With You, which reached no. 4 in Britain and no. 12 in the U.S. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in the UK. In 1964, Springfield recorded two Burt Bacharach songs: Wishin' and Hopin' – a US Top 10 hit – and the emotional I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, which reached No. 3 on the UK chart. Her other hits include Some of Your Lovin' (1965), You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1966) and Son of a Preacher Man (1969).
As a fan of US pop music, Dusty Springfield brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. She adored singers like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin. Springfield went to the US to work on an album with legendary music producer Jerry Wexler, the man behind albums by Franklin and Ray Charles. The album, Dusty in Memphis (1969), would be the pinnacle of her success. It has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers. Springfield's career following Dusty in Memphis proved inconsistent and her private life was also a turmoil. From mid-1966 to the early 1970s Springfield lived in a domestic partnership with fellow singer Norma Tanega. From late 1972 to 1978, Springfield had a relationship with Faye Harris, a US photojournalist. In 1981 she had a six-month love affair with singer-musician Carole Pope of the rock band Rough Trade. During periods of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships, influenced by addiction, resulted in episodes of personal injury. In 1982 Springfield met American actress Teda Bracci, at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. In 1983, they exchanged vows at a wedding ceremony which was not legally recognised under California law. The pair had a tempestuous relationship which led to an altercation with both Springfield and Bracci hospitalised – Springfield had been smashed in the mouth by Bracci wielding a saucepan and had teeth knocked out requiring plastic surgery. The pair had separated within two years. After a bout with drugs and alcohol, she saw her career resurrected with the Pet Shop Boys song What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1987) and the soundtrack to the film Scandal (1988). In 1989, she had two other UK hits with Nothing Has Been Proved and In Private. Subsequently in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of Son of a Preacher Man on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, interest in her early output was revived.Springfield, who returned to England in the early 1990s, released her final studio album, A Very Fine Love, in 1995. That same year, she was diagnosed with cancer. From there on out, health problems were a constant in her life. Dusty Sprinfield passed away from cancer, in 1999.
Source: Biography.com and Wikipedia.
Built in 1882 and renovated in the 1930s to its present Art Deco-style appearance, this building was formerly the home of a Kresge Department Store location. The building features a buff brick exterior, decorative spandrel panels, limestone trim, geometric motifs, including ziggurat-shaped brick panels over the third-floor windows, one-over-one double-hung windows, decorative piers, and a heavily modified first floor facade. The building is a contributing structure in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and expanded to its present size in 2016.
Built in 1974, this Modern International-style building was designed by Architectural and Mechanical Systems Corporation to serve as a modern hotel for downtown Springfield, originally being known as the Forum 30 Plaza Hotel, later being known as the Hilton Towers Hotel in the 1980s, the Springfield Hilton Hotel starting in the 1990s, and in 2015, the Wyndham Springfield City Centre. It is the tallest building in Springfield, standing 352 feet (107 meters) and 30 floors tall, but sits on much lower ground than the Illinois State Capitol, allowing the dome of the Capitol to remain dominant on the city’s skyline. The building has a dodecagon-shaped tower with travertine at the corners and crown, flanking the glass curtain walls, a crown that tapers outwards towards the 30th floor and inwards towards the roof, and a two-story C-shaped podium surrounding a central automobile entrance court. The building today remains in use as a hotel, and is a dominant feature of the skyline of Springfield.
A view from the rear; with the early morning mid summer sun illuminating the track and train; Scotrails 158729 leading and 158725 nearer the camera just passed through Springfield station at speed working 2L62 06:02 Dundee to Edinburgh. Top mid frame can be seen Hospital Mill level crossing and less distinct where the lines curve to the right is Cults Mill level crossing. 22 June 2021.
In 1841 Springfield Hospital opened on 14th June as the first Surrey County Lunatic Asylum for Paupers in the London Borough of Wandsworth, Tooting. In 1938 97 acres of land had been purchased of an estate, Springfield Park which was so named due to the spring running through it. The original buildings were designed by Middlesex County surveyor Mr W. Moseley who had also previously designed the sprawling Middlesex Asylum in Hanwell.
Springfield was a fine specimen to behold in its time with state-of-the-art design features such as steam which was circulated through the galleries to keep the hospital at a constant temperature and hot air which was injected through the floors. The administration block was impressively designed, surrounded by a corridor plan layout and grand sweeping lawns (with a stone carved fountain) which flanked the original reception area although this has since been drastically modernised and now serves as the back of the site. Lunacy and melancholia were but a few of the commonly diagnosed symptoms being treated and numbers during the asylum's peak capacity reached just over 2000 patients and staff.
In 1856 a patient named Daniel Dolley was accidentally killed in the asylum under the orders of medical superintendant, Charles Snape during a routine hydrotherapy chastisement. The patient who was 65 had been acting hyperactively previously that day and was subjected to 28 minutes of cold water showering. Orders were given for the treatment to be followed with the administration of 2 grains of potassium antimony tartrate which is a poisonous crystalline compound often used in the treatment of parasitic infections and which can cause severe gastric inflammation. Daniel Dolley suffered a fatal convulsion only a few minutes after the treatment ceased.
Charles Snape was later charged with manslaughter, however the jury later stated that he had no case to answer and he was sent back to work at Springfield.
Recent years have seen the Institution at the focus of a great deal of media attention and controversy due to a high number of violent crimes relating to Springfield patient 'escapees'. The Freedom of Information Act revealed that 30 patients have escaped from secure wards in the hospital since 2005. In 2009 the Hospital has already experienced 2 absconds and 1 escape, one of whom is a rapist named Barrington Gordon as reported by a London Paper.
Much to the outrage of local residents the hospital boasts that it is not a high security facility but is only medium secure, yet the hospital receives 'day trips' from criminally insane patients from maximum security facilities such as Broadmoor. Perhaps the successful rehabilitation and support provided by a hospital of this scale is easily overlooked when it is overshadowed by so many systematic safety failures.
Springfield certainly appears to be a strange mix of open wards where people are free to 'walk through' in stark contrast to other areas that resemble a maximum security facility with courtyards penned off by curved edged fencing. In February 2009 a convicted killer named Paul Caesar who was on unescorted leave within the hospital grounds absconded and committed suicide on rail tracks.
In 2004 a patient who had escaped stabbed a man to death in Richmond Park. Another sad incident happened in 2000 when a patient named Anthony Josef was discharged only to stalk and murder his social worker, Jenny Morrison, who cared for him. Again, in 2006 a patient randomly killed fitness instructor Matthew Carter. And previously in 2003 a male nurse named Mamade Chattun was brutally beaten to death in the Hospital lobby by patient, Joseph Cann who had been sectioned the previous day.
The hospital accepted a fine of £28,000 in court and pleaded guilty to neglect resulting in Mamade's inability to seek any help or alert the authorities during the frenzied attack; he was provided with no attack alarm or radio for his safety and the nearby wall alarm was broken as were several others around the hospital.
A long time ago, Publix changed the name of their soda from the clever "Pix" to the not-so-clever "Publix Cola"
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Existing ruins in the former town of Springfield, CA. Springfield received its name from the abundant springs gushing from limestone boulders. Town, with its stores, shops, and a hotel built around a plaza. It once boasted 2,000 inhabitants. Believed to have been founded by Donna Josefa Valmesada, a Mexican woman of means with a reputation for aiding Americans in the war with Mexico. During its heyday, many miners' carts could be seen on the road, hauling gold-bearing dirt to Springfield springs for washing.
at Widener University's Alumni Awards dinner at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Pa. on Friday 11 October 2019. Photograph by Jim Graham
From Left, Christian Nascimento '97, Ronald H. Romanowicz '68, Eric M. Guzy '19, Bill Campbell, Abigail R. Ferrie '20, Anthony C. Stanowski '84, Robert J. Hawley '62.