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Postcard advertising Au Pont Rouge, an upscale store in Saint. Petersburg, Russia. This store is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in Saint Petersburg. Sent to a Postcrossing member in Germany.
Empty directory sign outside entry 5.
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Forest Fair Mall opened in 1989 with upscale anchors that included Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Parisian, and Sakowitz. It also included Bigg's and Elder-Beerman as anchor stores. It consisted of 1.5 million square feet; the third largest mall in the US at the time. By the mid 1990s, all of the high-end stores left the mall (B. Altman and Sakowitz ended up going out of business altogether). By the time 2008 rolled around, ALL of the original anchors had closed.
Through the years, the mall had a handful of owners and was renamed at least 3 times over the years. It was known as Forest Fair Mall until 2004 when the Mills Corporation reopened it as Cincinnati Mills Mall after a $70 million renovation project which booted all of the inline stores and kept the theaters and what anchors had remained. Simon Malls acquired the Mills malls in 2007; in 2009 the mall was sold again and was renamed Cincinnati Mall, as the mills name didn't transfer with the sale. The mall's fourth name, Forest Fair Village, was announced in 2013, but that name appears nowhere on the building.
It could be argued that this mall should never have been built, as two other well-established malls (Northgate and Tri-County) are within 15 minutes of this mall and a third (Kenwood Towne Center) isn't too far away. Added to that is the fact that the blue-collar communities of Forest Park and Fairfield, where the mall is situated, were not able to support the high-end retail this mall originally featured. Finally, the exit where this mall is located did not develop the supporting retail as the aforementioned areas did.
At this point, I can count about 5 inline storefronts and three anchors that are open, plus one food court establishment. All of the rest of the shops show various degrees of closure - some have their gates pulled down, some have the gates pulled with plastic or tarp covering them and the store windows, and some have even had their entrances drywalled off.
Upscaled with Gigapixel v8.4.3. 3236x4854 => 6472x9708 (2x) Model: High Fidelity V2, denoise: 0.01, sharpen: 0.01, decompression: 0.01
The sun sets along Ali’i Drive on the beach town of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. The steeple is of Moku’aikaua Church, the oldest church in Hawaii, built in 1837. It was my first time visiting the Big Island and it certainly will not be my last.
What is your favorite island in Hawaii?
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I wonder how the Viet Cong would have reacted to Cristian Dior and Salvatore Ferragamo stores in Hanoi. This area hosts many high end brand name stores, as well as many high end hotels.
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Harriet Himmel Theater: Originally the First United Methodist Church, this structure is one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of its time.
It was built by Walker Brothers of Birmingham, Ala. in 1926 at a cost of $225,000. The architects of the three-story, 51,786-square foot building were Spencer and Phillips, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Anshun Lang Bridge. It is actually an overpriced restaurant but pedestrians can still use it to cross the Jin river.
The phenomenon of upscale hill fog.
Fog is one of Mother Nature's most magnificent displays.
This atmospheric marvel, called 'upslope fog', are actually clouds that touch the ground, formed when water vapor in the air condenses around microscopic dust, salt or other particles and morphs into suspended water droplets or ice crystals. Upslope fog is formed when air flows upwards over rising terrain. It is a type of hill fog. When viewed from clear air above, the observer will look down on the top surface of the cloud.
Upscaled with Gigapixel v8.4.3. 3572x2392 => 7144x4784 (2x) Model: High Fidelity V2, denoise: 0.01, sharpen: 0.01, decompression: 0.01
As suggested by Motian, the shoulder racks are now closer to the center torso, making the whole mech look more slender. Also, since I can't fully avoid light bley on this construction, I tried to use it a little more consistently here.
Now an upscale restaurant, the Grand Concourse at Station Square used to be the main train/ railway station of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. In 1873, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) was first chartered and in 1877, construction began on a rail line connecting Pittsburgh to Youngstown. In 1879, the P&LE officially opened for commercial traffic and later became known as the Little Giant for the amount of tonnage that it moved.
By 1970, passenger traffic stopped using this station. Thankfully the building was not demolished but rather re-developed into a mixed-use hotel, office, retail, dining and entertainment complex in the 1990s.
The first area in the French Connection we wandered through was Xintiandi - lots of upscale shopping and dining opportunities in one of the shikumen (alleyway complexes entered through a stone-framed kumen, or gateway) preserved and restored complex.
Could not resist a bit of home as lululemon is a Vancouver based company.
Lululemon is a self-described yoga-inspired athletic apparel company for women and men. The company makes a variety of types of athletic wear, including performance shirts, shorts, and pants, as well as lifestyle apparel and yoga accessories.
Original (upscaled) black and white version with description here. Colorized using Colourise SG (no longer available), with a few manual adjustments.
(Update) I have now found a colour print online, and produced a recombined colour version.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike the "colour recombination" method I've employed for the version described above, the online colorization on this page is done from scratch, without reference to an actual colour source. Therefore the colours you're seeing here are purely speculative.
I made an upscaled 6654 Motorcycle Transport from 1983 at 3x for the Festival of Mundanity. Wanted to share some comparisons and better posed renders of the "set." Each part was made individually and with slight modification, can be attached together like real bricks. This was a project that challenged my Lego building skills and Lego math comprehension. While most parts are near perfect, the minifig and motorcycle presented a real challenge and suffer the most proportional problems. I hope to build this IRL one day soon, but for now, I hope you can enjoy this build!
I couldn't decide which Beauty Express photo I liked better, so I included both. I'm leaning toward the previous photo...
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Forest Fair Mall opened in 1989 with upscale anchors that included Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Parisian, and Sakowitz. It also included Bigg's and Elder-Beerman as anchor stores. It consisted of 1.5 million square feet; the third largest mall in the US at the time. By the mid 1990s, all of the high-end stores left the mall (B. Altman and Sakowitz ended up going out of business altogether). By the time 2008 rolled around, ALL of the original anchors had closed.
Through the years, the mall had a handful of owners and was renamed at least 3 times over the years. It was known as Forest Fair Mall until 2004 when the Mills Corporation reopened it as Cincinnati Mills Mall after a $70 million renovation project which booted all of the inline stores and kept the theaters and what anchors had remained. Simon Malls acquired the Mills malls in 2007; in 2009 the mall was sold again and was renamed Cincinnati Mall, as the mills name didn't transfer with the sale. The mall's fourth name, Forest Fair Village, was announced in 2013, but that name appears nowhere on the building.
It could be argued that this mall should never have been built, as two other well-established malls (Northgate and Tri-County) are within 15 minutes of this mall and a third (Kenwood Towne Center) isn't too far away. Added to that is the fact that the blue-collar communities of Forest Park and Fairfield, where the mall is situated, were not able to support the high-end retail this mall originally featured. Finally, the exit where this mall is located did not develop the supporting retail as the aforementioned areas did.
At this point, I can count about 5 inline storefronts and three anchors that are open, plus one food court establishment. All of the rest of the shops show various degrees of closure - some have their gates pulled down, some have the gates pulled with plastic or tarp covering them and the store windows, and some have even had their entrances drywalled off.
Bass Pro Shops' upper level non-entrance
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Forest Fair Mall opened in 1989 with upscale anchors that included Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Parisian, and Sakowitz. It also included Bigg's and Elder-Beerman as anchor stores. It consisted of 1.5 million square feet; the third largest mall in the US at the time. By the mid 1990s, all of the high-end stores left the mall (B. Altman and Sakowitz ended up going out of business altogether). By the time 2008 rolled around, ALL of the original anchors had closed.
Through the years, the mall had a handful of owners and was renamed at least 3 times over the years. It was known as Forest Fair Mall until 2004 when the Mills Corporation reopened it as Cincinnati Mills Mall after a $70 million renovation project which booted all of the inline stores and kept the theaters and what anchors had remained. Simon Malls acquired the Mills malls in 2007; in 2009 the mall was sold again and was renamed Cincinnati Mall, as the mills name didn't transfer with the sale. The mall's fourth name, Forest Fair Village, was announced in 2013, but that name appears nowhere on the building.
It could be argued that this mall should never have been built, as two other well-established malls (Northgate and Tri-County) are within 15 minutes of this mall and a third (Kenwood Towne Center) isn't too far away. Added to that is the fact that the blue-collar communities of Forest Park and Fairfield, where the mall is situated, were not able to support the high-end retail this mall originally featured. Finally, the exit where this mall is located did not develop the supporting retail as the aforementioned areas did.
At this point, I can count about 4 inline storefronts and three anchors that are open, plus one food court establishment whose status is unknown as of August 2016. All of the rest of the shops show various degrees of closure - some have their gates pulled down, some have the gates pulled with plastic or tarp covering them and the store windows, and some have even had their entrances drywalled off.