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Beginning of the demolition of the Pine Street School, west Pine St, north side, between Union Alley and High Street. It was built in 1923 and used thru June 1963.
Back row (left to right): Jennifer Dobson, Keith Cook, Jeff Smith, Bruce Etchison, Tristin Strait and Troy Ritter.
Front row (left to right): Chris Caler, Bill Wiseman, me, Katie-Lynn Burbage, Rachel Goldberger and Kimberly Patterson
Looking forward to seeing the rest of this amazing painting by Pittsburgh artist Amber Lambert of Blood Eagle Tattoo. IG:bloodeagleamber
Bikini Lines is a contest to create & document the world's largest painting for the benefit of children orphaned in the March 2011 Japanese disasters, and this is one of my submissions. Find out posting rules & much, much more at www.bikinilines.net
...the poppies are. One of my favorite flowers...like delicate paper sculptures. They are blooming all up and down the Gorge on HWY 14 in S. Washington
The beginning frame & very early head sculpt of Satele Shan from SW: Old Republic. The head sculpt is a casting of an early sculpt for Sian Jeisel before moding is with a fur texture and a heavier brow. Will add ears/hair, then work up a painted head sculpt soon. The figure will represent Shan's appearance in the"Return" cinematic trailer with an alternate headsculpt from the "Hope" trailer. youtu.be/iXPgZ3DWc5E
This is my entry for the "New Beginnings" contest on DeviantArt found here: news.deviantart.com/article/104307/ Hosted by: dsoden dsoden.deviantart.com/
This is something I hope for in the new year to complete our family....it would make my son a big brother!
For prints please go to my etsy shop: www.solocosmo.etsy.com
The Badaguan area of Qingdao, China, is a residential area just east of downtown (beginning right around the No. 1 Bathing Beach and going eastward a few kilometers, bordered by Zhongshan Park & Taipingshan Park on the north and the sea on the south). It’s primarily a residential area with beautiful, tree-lined streets. The heart of Badaguan consists of ten streets. “Ba” is the number “eight” in Chinese. “Da” means “big,” and “guan” means “(mountain) passes.” (Keep in mind that Mandarin is a tonal language so, saying “badaguan” differently would have a vastly different meaning.) That being said, I’ll stop with the personal commentary and just transcribe the signage in the area as it states things much better than I can:
Badaguan Scenic Area was built in the first three decades of the 20th century. It is called “Badaguan” as the eight roads in the area were all named after China’s important passes in history (now there are ten roads), namely, Shaoguan Road, Ningwuguan Road, Zijingguan Road, Shanhaiguan Road, Juyongguan Road, Linhuaiguan Road, Zhengyangguan Road, Hanguguan Road, Jiayuguan Road, and Wushengguan Road, which cover several square kilometers of seaside scenic area along the Huiquan and the Taiping Bays. The trees in the area vary from road to road, blending harmoniously with the nearby buildings: crape myrtles along Zhengyangguan Road, cedars along Zijingguan Road, peaches along Shaoguan Road and Chinese flowering crabapples along Ningwuguan Road. Most buildings in “Badaguan” are villas with courtyards, typical of the modern European architectural style, known as “World Architectural Fair,” with famous buildings such as, among others, “Huashilou House” and “Princess House.” The scenic area was listed as a state protected historic site in 1996, and was appraised as “the most beautiful city area of China” in October, 2005.
I’ve lived in China for almost three years now; about two years in Shanghai and one year in Tianjin. Shandong province is the province that’s on the sea between the two cities. (From Shanghai to Tianjin by train is around 5 hours; by plane, 2 hours.) Qingdao, probably the most well-known city in Shandong, is a charming city, to say the least. In my opinion, it’s exceptionally photogenic – with very nice beaches, great architecture, good geography/topography, and terrific food.
Qingdao also happens to be known for the most famous of Chinese beers (Tsingtao), which is actually a company started by the Germans. (For what it’s worth, Chinese beers are quite watery and Tsingtao is somewhat like the Budweiser of Chinese beers. That being said, I’m happy to drink an ice cold Tsingtao on a hot summer day whereas I wouldn’t say the same thing about a Budweiser.
So what to make of Qingdao then? Before colonial powers swept in and started chopping up China piecemeal, Qingdao was basically a sleepy fishing village. During the Ming dynasty, a battery was built here. In 1898, the Germans seized control of Qingdao when two missionaries were killed. (Personally, it seems alarming to me that a country could lose a city because two foreigners happened to be killed – and China sure lost a lot that way during the 19th century. I guess that’s the downside to outmoded military technology; the Europeans and Americans basically plundered China…) At any rate, Qingdao was ceded to the Germans for 99 years, but that didn’t last long, thanks to World War I.
During the 15-20 years that the Germans did have control of the town, they managed to build a handful of churches (still standing) and missionaries, in addition to the aforementioned Qingdao brewery. Because of that, a lot of the European architecture has a heavy German influence and there are still a few random signs of German heritage around town.
From the Germans, Qingdao didn’t land directly with the Chinese. It spent 8 years under Japanese control (1914-1922) before being returned to the Kuomintang (aka General Chiang Kai-Shek’s clan). The Japanese took control once again in 1938 (as they swept through northeast China and across half the country) before losing it for the last time in 1945 at the end of World War II. Since then, it’s been in Chinese hands. (Brief history courtesy of Lonely Planet.)
Contemporary Qingdao certainly makes its way as a tourist destination – and it’s a fine one at that. The population (per my LP from 2011) lists it at 1.73 million. The city has a few areas that are quite appealing to tourists: the Old Town (the heart of the city) off the beach and just east of the railway station downtown, Badaguan (which means “eight passes”) is a hilly area with a lot of nice residential architecture to the east of the Old Town. Other than that, there are a lot of parks, a beer street, churches, and a 40 km. scenic walk (which, obviously, most people do not cover from end to end) along the shore which goes by all of the beaches in the area.
All in all, Qingdao is the type of town that, if you get the chance to visit, I think you would find yourself thinking it would be great to return again and again.
You are invited...
1st February - 29th March 2014
Beginning Middle End illustration collective was established by ten friends whilst at Falmouth University in 2012. During that year, they illustrated and hand-bound a weekly publication following a wordless narrative format consisting of three panels, aptly called Beginning Middle End.
Since graduating in 2013, five members of the collective have moved to Bristol and are working as freelance illustrators and designers: Lara Hawthorne, Harriet Lee-Merrion, Sophie Bass, Beatrice Forshall and Hugh Cowling. This exhibition will feature recent work from these illustrators as well as the books produced by the collective whilst at Falmouth.
Building work beginning on the squat in houses on Jeffreys Road that were once part of the pioneering Annie McCall Maternity Hospital (Actor Roger Moore was born here) The site was lastly the home of Stockwell Studios providing workspace for artists. Lambeth Council sold the site to a property developer who are now refurbishing these houses and the hospital building behind for private flats.
This is the start of a series that I shot with some amazing people that I met for the first time and went with me in a photo walk from Rizal Park to Intramuros to Binondo Chinatown and finally to Quiapo. I found myself surrounded with amazing photographers who embrace the philosophy and artistry of photography in their lives. Kudos to Lomomanila!
I haven't uploaded anything in a long time, mainly due to school work; the school year is done for me now and it's finally summer. Lately there's been some really strange weather, it should be hot and dry but it's cloudy, warm and humid. That oddly shaped object on the ground is a leaf with a flash light as well as a street light shining down on it.
Tie your warp thread around the breast beam of your loom (where the ratchet is), and start spinning the loom around on it's stand to wind the warp on.
Photo session №2 after the Photo session for the contest "PhotoCity 2013". The theme was BEGINNING, so I was inspired to show a new beginning for a girl, leaving the old teenage style behind to become a young lady. After I got my photos for the contest I made myself some photos to show off my new dress in combination with one of my favorite pairs of shoes.
A few choice images from Nathan and Christine's wedding. I'd uploaded this one as my photo of the day for Project 365 but wanted to put a few more of my favourites up.
One of the three photos I took for the contest "PhotoCity 2013". The theme is BEGINNING, inspired by the Mayan »End of the
World« prophecy, and the beginning of the new cycle.
That's my point of view - a girl leaving the teenage years behind to become a young woman with a new style.
Hilton Cabana (formerly Allison Hotel), Miami Beach, Florida
-In the Beginning-
In May 1951 construction started on a 72-unit apartment building (66 one bedroom and 6 two-bedroom units) to cost $1.2 million. It was sited on a 118x400 foot lot at 6261 Collins Ave owned by Mr. & Mrs. Russell Imerblum. The Imerblum's leased the land to the Allison Operating Company, whose principal owners were Sam Rosen, Louis Adler and Arthur Adler. The building's architect was H. A. Mathes.
Arthur A. Adler moved to Miami Beach in 1936. In the early 1950's he bought the Leamington Hotel, 307 NE First St. in Miami. In 1957 he bought and managed the Ponce de Leon Hotel, 231 E. Flagler. He also built the Allison Hotel.
In 1950 Arthur A. Adler, while building the Allison Hotel, organized the Caravana Turistica de la Miami (Miami Tourist Caravan) and made repeated trips to South America and Central America to drum up tourism. Adler made many sales trips throughout Latin America and Europe and pioneered package tours to Latin America where he would bring teams of Florida mayors and travel industry workers to promote Miami as an international destination. He was a past president of the Miami Beach Hotel Association. He sold his hotels in the 1970's.
In 1957 the 152-room Allison Hotel was leased by Louis and Arthur Adler to Milton A. Baxt and Saul Cheskes for 10 1/2 years for $2,750,000. The air-conditioned Allison Hotel was considered a luxury hotel and had a nickname "New Englander's Home Away from Home". Milton Baxt was known as his own clothes designer. The clothes were made in New Haven, CT and may have started the Ivy League Trend, according to Esquire Magazine.
In 1981 The Allison Hotel was offering an $895 monthly rate for a room with all the resort facilities including 3 meals per day.
In 1983 - Allison Resorts Inc. a Panama Corp whose president is Eli Nemer signed an agreement to sell the Allison Hotel at 6261 Collins Ave for $4.5 million. The hotel previously sold in 1970 for $1,310,000. The buyer is Intercontinental Hotel and Management Service Inc. whose president is Caroline Weiss. Forecasted projected income from rentals were suggested to be $1,585,000 in 1983.
Caroline Weiss and her husband Jack, an attorney, were principals in a number of condominium/hotel/office developments in South Florida. In 1976 Their Sun Hotels Development group worked on building a $40 million, 500-room, Hyatt Regency Hotel at Brickell Avenue and SE 4th St. The project never happened after the land owner (the Elks Club) filed a foreclosure action against Sun for being over 9 months late on a $1 million payment. Different developers did open the 608-room Hyatt Regency in 1982 on top of the James L. Knight Convention Center.
1985 - The Allison Hotel was foreclosed on. Foreclosure proceedings were filed by Alpha Venture Inc, a firm headed by Haim Bar Navon, who held a $300,000 mortgage on the hotel. The hotel also had a first mortgage of $1.9 million with City Federal Savings that was in default. Defendant is Allison on the Ocean Inc. headed by Chantal Fianson. Other debts on the hotel are two loans for $1 million owed to Altamira Investment, NV
-- the 2000's--
2004 - The Allison Hotel, known as the Comfort Inn in recent years, will be reborn in 2006 as Cabana, a condominium development that is being lauded by city planners and preservationists as an example of how good preservation can be - and how a historic district can be economically viable.
The developers of the Cabana project say the Allison - built in 1951 and designed by A. Herbert Mathes - would have been doomed if the preservation district had not been on line.
Ronald Bloomberg, president and principle of BSG Development said they would have developed new if we could have torn it down but the district prevented that.
The concept of the project is a beach retreat made up of 210 luxuriously furnished studios of 350 square feet and up to 525 square feet. It is designed for residents who want a turnkey pad in Miami Beach but don't want to pay millions for it. The studios start at $200,000 and since they went on the market two months ago 40% have been sold according to Bloomberg. The planned renovation to the building would add two floors, extend the building in the rear and add balconies. It would also raise the pool deck (allowing a view of the ocean) and disguise two floors of parking underneath avoiding the monolithic concrete parking garages common in high rises.
Bloomberg said "Almost 95 percent of the new construction that’s on the ocean today (2004) are condominiums that are two bedrooms and larger,” noting that those units cost around a million bucks.
Cabana studios, by contrast, start at $200,000. (Depending on height, exposure and terrace size, they can run up to $600,000.) Bloomberg also planned a beach club with private memberships for non-residents at an annual cost of $3,000. Bloomberg was negotiating for a world-class restaurant with Jerry Chodorow with China Grill Management.
The Allison Hotel was closed and gutted in 2007 in anticipation of a condominium conversion. The conversion did not materialize and the property went into foreclosure. The work by BSG Development stopped amid dozens of contractor liens and a foreclosure lawsuit by Regions Bank. The bank sold the $36.6 million loan to Miami-based Florida Special Asset Recovery LLC, which took title to the property at a January 2010 foreclosure auction.
On April 7, 2011 Florida Special Asset Recovery LLC sold the Cabana on Collins for $11.3 million to the Rockpoint Group and Witkoff Group (RP/WG Cabana). Rockpoint is a Dallas-based an international real estate investment firm. Witkoff is a New York City based condo and hotel developer.
Steven Witkoff is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Witkoff Group, which he founded in 1997. Since founding the firm, Mr. Witkoff has leveraged his extensive real estate expertise to successfully lead the financing, repositioning, and construction of over 70 properties in major business districts in the U.S.
By 2011, The redevelopment began of the Hilton Cabana Miami Beach as a 231-room beachfront hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach’s “Millionaire’s Row” neighborhood just minutes from South Beach. Witkoff completed the development of this hotel after purchasing a note and gaining possession of the property through foreclosure in 2011. Development work, which won an award from Hilton for top conversion of the year, included preservation of the historically significant 1950s Miami Modern (MiMo) façade of the main building. Amenities include two outdoor pools, the Cabana Grill restaurant, and a fitness center.
2014 - The Hilton Cabana Miami Beach at 6261 Collins Ave opened in July, 2014. Built on the site of the former Allison Hotel, the new Hilton has two towers. One incorporated the old hotel with two new floors built on top. A second tower is completely new.
RP/WG Cabana, a Delaware affiliate of Dallas-based Rockpoint Group, sold the 231-room hotel for about $310,000 a key to Bethesda, Md.-based RLJ June 20, 2014 a day after the hotel opened to the public.
RLJ Lodging Trust acquired the property for $71.6 million. As of 2014 with the addition of this hotel, RLJ owned 148 properties, comprised of 146 hotels with approximately 23,000 rooms located in 21 states and the District of Columbia.
Didier Quintana, since 2022, has been the General Manager at Hilton Cabana Miami Beach.
Jordan Gibson
Jordan is my new beginning! I recently decided to start over because of a lot of doubt in my mind. I have had my ups and downs already in this new year, but i know now that nothing should stop me. So I decided that Jordan will be the beginning.
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Jordan on the other hand is such a delight to shoot with! He is a very beautiful, kind, and funny person. I am go to be looking forward to all of our future shoots together!
Go check out his amazing work.
Tomorrow, the old year ends and the new year begins. That means the timing is perfect to dream.
Dream... so that it can come true.
Pre-kindergarten teacher Angelika Miles introduces a student to her classmates on the first day of the Army Child, Youth and School Services Strong Beginnings Program Sept. 8. Strong Beginnings is an Army Family Covenant program designed to prepare students for the transition to kindergarten. Skills taught meet Army early learning standards and include basic academic and classroom etiquette skills and focus on the social, emotional and physical development of children. Army CDCs in the States as well as worldwide were losing preschool children to civilian preschool programs or state-run preschool programs, so to counter that trend, the Army came up with Strong Beginnings to help parents prepare their children for school. (photo by Jason Austin, Herald Post)
The main warehouse of Carvers, beginning to disintegrate during the fire.
A major fire on the Carvers Building Supplies premises in Wolverhampton occurred on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Over 100 fire fighters were need to bring the blaze under control.
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