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Sunset ~ Key West Harbor ~ Key West, Florida U.S.A.
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2nd Place Competition Winner - Theme: Fun On The Water
Sitting By The Dock Of The Bay Group - August 2017
The former Western Union building is one of the few buildings in the city that has both interior and exterior landmark designations. It was, and still is, one of the most important communication hubs in the country.
Originally built in 1949 as the Continental Trailways Bus Center. This facility closed in 2017 and is now for sale. Shreveport, Louisiana. 7.4.2013.
The 130-foot wooden vessel WESTERN UNION is an auxiliary coasting schooner launched at Key West, Florida, on April 7, 1939. The WESTERN UNION typifies and is a prime example, of the traditional American coasting schooner, a type and form prevalent in U.S. shipbuilding from 1800 to 1939 when this vessel, the last true example, was built. The original appearance of the hull is unaltered. Constructed of madiera framing, the keel, deck beams, planking and decking are of long-leaf yellow pine. The two-masted schooner has a clipper bow and an overhanging counter at the stern. Her basic dimensions are as follows: length on deck: 92 feet; length at water line: 86 feet; length overall: 130 feet; extreme beam: 23 feet 6 inches; height of main topmast truck: 94 feet. Constructed in 1939 as an undersea telegraph cable vessel, the WESTERN UNION was modeled after the 1886 GEORGE T. GARRISON and was built by two Grand Cayman Island brothers, Herber & Loxley Arch in Key West, Florida. The ship was leased to the Western Union Telegraph Company from 1939-73 and functioned to maintain the shore-to-shore communication links throughout the Caribbean area. As the primary cable repair ship for the "southern group of cables", the WESTERN UNION worked on or repaired cables from Key West to Havana, Key West to Punta Rassa, Key West to Miami, Galveston to Tampico to Puerto, Mexico, and those to the Barbados. She was "on call" to depart within 24 hours to repair the cables of the Western Union Telegraph Company and other companies throughout the Gulf of Mexico, the northeast coast of South America and the Bahamas. During World War II, the duties of the WESTERN UNION remained unchanged. It was felt that her job was of prime interest and importance to national security and that, being a wooden sailing ship which could do her job quietly in the presence of enemy submarines, she was best suited to continue as usual. It is not known if any armament was put aboard. Crew identity was carefully checked by Navy, Coast Guard and U.S. Immigration agencies.
On May 16, 1984, the WESTERN UNION was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) by the United States Department of the Interior. More information about this schooner can be read on the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration and can be found here: npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/b842435b-7285-4ecc-9c8...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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An armed guard outside a Western Union money transfer business in Bacolod, Visayas, Philippines. Most businesses in the Philippines have armed guards, especially in the cities.
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George Floyd mural on 38th Street in George Floyd Square on August 12, 2023.
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This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
An idyllic summer's day. Captured (not once but twice it seems) on the lawn at Ballinskelligs, I am intrigued by the two "barber shop" poles in the background. What were they for? Happy Fotografic Friday everybody!
And so we learned that the beacons (as with much else in this image) are now no longer standing. However, they were likely warnings to vessels not to damage the undersea telegraph cable by dropping or dragging anchor nearby. We also learned that the Ballinskelligs cable station was operated by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, and later by Western Union. It was closed in 1923. And (clearly) entirely demolished since then....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly early 1900s
NLI Ref: L_CAB_08470
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What does a remote town of population 1,500 on the Virginia Eastern Shore (Delmarva Penninsula) need more than a 20' tall Statue of Liberty replica? It started out as advertising for Liberty Tax Service but now sits on the edge of town next to the Western Auto store..
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Built in 1928–1930, this Art Deco-style telecommunications building, located in Lower Manhattan, was designed by Ralph Thomas Walker. (The building's formal name is "60 Hudson Street.")
At the retail giant's peak, there were upwards of 2,300 Kmart discount stores located in the United States alone. Today however, that number has plummeted to just under 30 stores remaining open, with most of those chains existing in the State of New York. The side effect of all those closures mean that there are literally thousands of vacant and abandoned Kmart box stores scattered all across the country. In some instances the former stores have been demolished or repurposed by another retailer, yet the stark reality exists that many of the stores are just rotting away; hundreds of thousands of square footage of empty retail space surrounded by a sea of asphalt parking lots.
It has been my experience that many of these massive shuttered storefronts have simply been left to rot, often becoming illegal dumping grounds for household trash and construction debris as the storefronts themselves are often left unsecured or haphazardly boarded up. The expansive parking lots have become choked with weeds happily sprouting up through cracks within the tattered asphalt as plastic bags and other man-made detritus blow across the deserted blacktop like artificial tumble weeds before becoming lodged within a disheveled bush or swept down a storm drain by a gust of wind. I've noticed on more than one occasion that vehicles have been abandoned beneath the ghostly insignia of a Kmart sign, still legible as the brick-and-mortar facade has been discolored with the outline of the logo even though the physical big red letters have long since been removed.
However, it is these apocalyptic retail sights that instill a sense of resentment within me. A fact as American as apple pie and diabetes is that corporations are simply allowed to just dissolve, often leaving behind a decaying environmental mess to become someone else's problem. Kmart it seems has never been held accountable for the stores they have shuttered and vacated, many of which have now become defacto landfills and magnets for societal decay, remaining as nothing more than urban blight and tax blackholes for the towns and cities that once cherished their existence. The retail apocalypse is upon us and within these capitalist collapses it becomes blatantly obvious that corporations do not give a damn about humanity nor cleaning up the scars they have left behind. Kmart and all unfairly regulated capitalism is, and has always been, the true apocalypse. Yet, we as the consumers still the product and now that Kmart is just about dead, they still have one last thing to sells us; and that's the plague of rotting storefronts and the mess they've let fester in towns and neighborhoods they once proclaimed to care about. The ultimate Blue Light Special.
Behind every mega-corporation there are very real humans pulling the strings and rolling in the cash whom rarely are held accountable for their greed. It's time for that nonsense to change. These CEOs are worth millions regardless of their failures and bankruptcies and it's about time we hold them hostage for their money forcing them to pay to cleanup the scars they've left behind. For the true organized retail crime is not the people looting the stores, it's the corporations looting us.
Wandering the back alleys of Vancouver's Mount Pleasant community checking out Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) works.
This one on a bulling at the corner of Main and Broadway is by Sharifah Marsden & Corey Larocque from the 2017 festival.
The mural is titled “Zhawenjigewin (Love in Anishinaabe)”.
The mural represents unconditional love, blessings, and kindness showing different First Nations artistic styles: Anishinaabe, Cree, and Coast Salish.
The mural depicts a man and woman embracing while surrounded by teepee poles representing home and the bond between them.
ABOUT THE MURAL FESTIVAl:
Established in 2016 with a vision to create meaningful experiences that connect people and art, VMF has grown from a grassroots initiative to one of British Columbia’s most vibrant artistic community celebrations.
From 2016 to 2020, the festival has produced more than 250 murals seen throughout Vancouver.
Diversity and inclusivity are at the core of the VMF. Over ninety percent of its artists are local to the area, more than sixty percent represent BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and marginalized groups, nearly half are female and one in five are Indigenous.
As a result, the murals reflect Vancouver’s diverse multicultural background and offer an inside look into the city’s culture and communities.
You can download the free Vancouver Mural Festival mobile app for a self-guided tour of Vancouver's permanent murals. The app will highlight the mural locations, teach you about the artists and their work.
Keys Sunset ~ #204 in Explore 1/31/13
1st Place Competition Winner ~ February 2013 ~ Super Shots Group
Key West Sunset ~ #176 in Explore 1/30/13
1st Place Competition Winner ~ Super Shots Group ~ March 2013
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I've been mostly missing in action for a few weeks, and coming up for air, I thought I'd post something kind of different from the archives. It’s been a few years ago now, but when we went to Key West around this time of year the skies were brilliant, the water clear, and the scenery spectacular. One sight was the Western Union, a historic schooner first launched in 1939 as a cable tender. For 35 years she laid more than 30,000 miles of telegraph cable throughout the Caribbean. She was then a passenger vessel for 10 years. She has been in the movies as the cargo ship La Amistad in the Spielberg movie Amistad, is on the US National Register of Historic Places, and is the official flagship of both the State of Florida and the City of Key West.
The schooner Western Union, the Official Flagship of Key West and the State of Florida. Taken by Ron.
May 19 2017 - LOL Smith & Western.. close enough and somehow looks like it might be an appropriate coupling.. a rather cool bar here along les Promenades Ontario that was packed and looked like it had a cool open air terasse in the back of the bar.. quite a popular place but in a sketchy part of town..
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Zomercarnaval 2019
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