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Macro Mondays: Fast Food...
If you are on a diet, you can look, but, you can't touch. So look at it large. If you dare.
Stagecoach 37111 (YY14 WFB) is seen outside Northampton Railway station, operating route 9A
3rd October 2017.
BNSF SD70ACe 8993 & SD70MAC 9478 (ex-BN 9478) at Garrison, Montana on May 16, 2015.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
The Mackinac Bridge linking the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with us trolls that live under the bridge in lower Michigan
Texture thanks to K. Deslandes
The Mackinac Bridge (pronounced /ˈmækɨnɔː/, approximately mack-in-awe), is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the non-contiguous Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Envisioned since the 1880s, the bridge was completed only after many decades of struggles to begin construction. Designed by engineer David B. Steinman, the bridge (familiarly known as "Big Mac" and "Mighty Mac") connects the city of St. Ignace on the north end with the village of Mackinaw City on the south. It is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere.
The bridge opened on November 1, 1957, ending decades of the two peninsulas being solely linked by ferries. A year later, the bridge was formally dedicated as the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages. This designation was chosen because the bridge would not be the world's largest using another way of measuring suspension bridges, the length of the center span between the towers; at the time that title belonged to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span. By saying "between anchorages", the bridge could be considered longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and also longer than the suspended western section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. (That bridge has a longer total suspension but is a double bridge with an anchorage in the middle.)
At 8,614 feet (2,626 m), the Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge with two towers between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.[3] Much longer anchorage-to-anchorage spans have been built in the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan (12,826 feet (3,909 m)). However, because of the long leadups to the anchorages on the Mackinac, from shoreline to shoreline it is much longer at 5 miles (8.0 km) than the Akashi-Kaikyo (2.4 miles (3.9 km)).
The length of the bridge's main span is 3,800 feet (1,158 m), which makes it the third-longest suspension span in the United States and twelfth longest worldwide. ~ Wikipedia
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BNSF SD70MAC 9889 as a DPU on the end of a westbound unit coal train passing through Garrison, Montana on May 16, 2015.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
Pictured on Princes Street in Edinburgh, somehow or other I'd have the feeling that Big Macs are not part of his normal diet.
I'd bet he likes a glass of Scotch though!
My wife and I traveled to Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island, Michigan recently to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. This shot was taken from Mackinaw Point on the Lake Huron side of the Mackinac Bridge.
The Mackinac Bridge is the one of the world's most beautiful bridges and is the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere, with a total length of 8,614 feet suspended. The height of the roadway at mid-span is approximately 200 feet above water level. It is currently the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The five mile long bridge connects Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas and much of the beauty comes from its setting on the Straits of Mackinac that links Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Ground was broken on May 7, 1954 and the bridge opened to the public on November 1, 1957.
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. . . As many times as I have visited Mackinaw City and Wilderness State Park, I have never been to McGulpin Point, Lighthouse, and Rock. Here is the view from the top of the lighthouse looking toward the Straights and the South Tower of the bridge. (Mackinaw Island in the background)
I was also thrilled to tour the International Dark Sky Park at the Headlands, just a mile away from this location.
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maven's note:Thank you all for your appreciation and awesome comments. Some are straight shot to the heart...The unexpected attention for this image came as mixture of surprise and rewarding for I really busted my S taking over hundred exposures, while standing in the middle of the most crowded street (Market St.) in SF, receiving the "Get the hell out of the way, lens-eyes!" look from bus drivers and other traffickers. Where the Police has no saying in this situation you deal with Moffos who have no tolerance for such activity and, ignoring the fact that such activities promoting the city as a Global Tourism, stuffing their already-balloon-faces with BigMacs and Donuts with the money ungratefully earned from the tourists. However, I still think, we have it a lot better than most European cities i.e. London, where the Police is your worst nightmare. In the UK, a Policeman (City-donut-ass-cop is the US term) can confiscate your camera or pay a visit to your home...here, he'd be literally shot in his Donut- butt!
For those not experiencing temperatures beyond 100 degrees, and with 85% humidify, excuse this indulgence.
Songs about “heat” that are really about lust, love, or a combination of both are plentiful. Finding a song referring to heat as an atmospheric condition is more difficult.
I love the song and the City Of San Francisco. Unlike LA's flat, hazy atmosphere, Francisco has a pure air...and the elevation; the numerous hills; and up and down (some at steep degree) streets...Twin Peaks (I need to get me a place there)...No need for a shrink!
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"Hot In The City"
Lyrics by Billy Idol
Stranger, stranger, stranger, stranger
It's hot here at night, lonely, black and quiet
On a hot summer night
Don't be afraid of the world we made
On a hot summer night
'Cause when a long-legged lovely walks by
Yeah you can see the look in her eye
Then you know that it's
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
Stranger, stranger
For all the dreams and schemes,
people are as they seem
On a hot summer night
Don't be no fun, don't forget you're young
On a hot summer night
The Bomber Interception Guided Missile Against Communists (BIGMAC) system is a heavy anti-bomber SAM. It launches from its fortified coffin bunker on a solid-fuel booster, then ignites twin ramjets to intercept enemy aircraft formations over 70 miles away. To track targets, the BIGMAC is paired with the Search and Orientation Counter Air Radar (SOCAR), an enormous and highly sensitive radar set housed in an gargantuan geodesic dome. Its gleaming white panels looming over the Eldorado horizon serve as a symbol of Ayascaran technological might.
Blue Hour, just after sunset, creates an inviting backdrop for the Mackinac Bridge as its lights twinkle and create reflections on winter ice. Snow and grass in the foreground add to this winter time scene. Shot was taken from the Upper Peninsula side.
BNSF ES44ACs 5962 & 6083 along with SD70MAC 8822 are power for a westbound unit coal train departing Helena, Montana on May 16, 2015.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Canon EFS 18-55mm lens
Les amortisseurs semblent être morts car elle est très abaissée.
Dans le coffre est situé un tas d'objets: des nombreux cartons, un lustre, des pneus, mais également une affiche MacDonald pour le nouveau Bigmac datant de la fin des années 1980 !
McDonald's Gennevilliers Gare 19/07/2020 15h14
McDonald's Gennevilliers Gare is a McDonald's restaurant very special for rail enthusiasts. The old station of Gennevilliers is a railway station having lost its original use. Originally built as a « station » for the Ligne de La Plaine à Ermont - Eaubonne, it was abandoned in 1988 when the Gennevilliers RER station, built 600 m further south, was put into service as part of the reopening of the Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides line.
Built by presidential decree of 1905, the old station of Gennevilliers was inaugurated on July 1, 1908. It then belonged to the Compagnie des chemin de fer du Nord. It was built in the architectural style known as the millstone, and the building currently has two floors.
In 1994, the town of Gennevilliers, owner of the station, leased it to the fast food company McDonald's, which made it one of its restaurants. It is locally known by the nickname "McDo station". In 2012, the outdoor parking lot of this establishment was renovated. The general architecture of the old Gennevilliers station has been preserved.
McDonald's Gennevilliers Gare
Avenue Marcel Paul - RN310
92230 GENNEVILIIERS
Tél: +33 1 46.85.00.45
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Store#: 2500 0607
Opened: 1994-1998 (?)
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The Mackinac Bridge (pronounced /ˈmækɨnɔː/, MAK-in-aw), is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the non-contiguous Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Envisioned since the 1880s, the bridge was completed in 1957 only after many decades of struggles to begin construction. Designed by engineer David B. Steinman, the bridge (familiarly known as "Big Mac" and "Mighty Mac") connects the city of St. Ignace on the north end with the village of Mackinaw City on the south. It is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere. The Mackinac Bridge carries Interstate 75 across the straits.
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Mile Hi Foods of Denver, Colorado, delivers provisions to the McDonald's store in Burlington, Colorado.
McDonald's looks a little different in the theatre district of New York City. This one, on 42nd St. looks like a Broadway theatre. The LONG lines waiting for their Big Macs before the shows became more interested in the friendly mounted police officer and his "trusted mount."
Very disappointing, thought I'd try one but wish I hadn't bothered.
Tasteless junk, definitely not worth the calories.
. . . Labor Day weekend means a few extra 50K people in the Bridge area! The business in the area make enough to get through the entire winter this weekend!
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BNSF SD70MACs 9489 (ex-BN 9489) & 9726 (ex-BN 9726) at Garrison, Montana on June 4, 2014. The units just spotted the cars from the train they brought in from Butte and are beginning to build their train for the return trip to Butte.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
as one who always enjoys a colorful variety of power on the railroad I was pleased to catch this southbound CSX Q217 led by BNSF SD70MAC #9904 and an HLCX SD40M-3 on a sunny winter afternoon. Louisville,KY 2-26-05
Mcdonalds on McKnight Road in Pittsburgh offering a particulaly offensive dressing. Not photoshoped a real sign.
While rummaging through old Senatobia photos, I came across one last unposted McDonald's view from 2 years prior. Taken from the Applebee's lot, this probably didn't make the cut back then due to all the vehicles blocking the view. But as always, every photo of the past becomes more important now that this look is gone forever :( And yikes, there's that creepy Taco Bell sign again(!), which I realized is not on the corner of the next door vacant lot after all, it just manages to somehow squeeze it's way into a whole lot of my photos, from two lots over no less! Here's the Bell sign yet again in a pic by Retail Retell, eerily nudging it's way into the very right of the photo there: flic.kr/p/DPR2ed
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McDonald's, 2000-built, Norfleet Dr.. near Getwell Dr., Senatobia MS
The second half of the Golden Hamburger Caper. Due to the fact that the printing on the pages does not match, I had to post each half of the picture separately.
Presented by McDonald's for the 1974 Ice Capades.
Happy 2021 everyone! Can you believe we finally kicked 2020 to the curb (where it belongs)!? To start the year off, thought it might be fitting to post a photo of something that has remained virtually unchanged since it was built circa 2002: the Hacks Cross Rd. McDonald's in the Southwind section of far* east Memphis.
I documented this McDonald's way back in early March 2015, the photo at this link being the best of the half dozen I posted back then. (Rare for me to capture a retail establishment or restaurant with even residual snowfall in the scene, even more so that the photo was taken in the second week of March!)
As you can see by the very recent drive-by pic I've posted today, nothing of any real significance has changed on the exterior, and the neon even remains in working order! Even if this place remodels sometime within the next year (which it will most surely do, now that I've jinxed it :P), hopefully as it stands now it will mirror the kind of stability we'll (eventually) find in the year ahead...
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McDonald's, 2002-built, Hacks Cross Rd. near Centennial Dr., Memphis
*So far east in east Memphis, Hacks Cross Rd. crosses (terrible pun intended :P) the state line clear over on the eastern side of Olive Branch. where we eventually find this place if we travel far enough to the south.
A cold winter’s twilight in Northern Michigan and the Mackinac Bridge / Straits of Mackinac, as seen from Bridge View Park, St. Ignace, Mackinac County- - -10 second exposure.
The Mackinac Bridge spans the Straits of Mackinac and connects Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas. It is the world’s third longest suspension bridge: total bridge length is 26,372 feet (5 miles) / 8,038 meters; suspension bridge length is 8,614 feet / 2,626 meters; distance between the towers is 3,800 feet / 1,158 meters; height of main towers is 552 feet / 168.25 meters; the bridge roadbed is 200 feet / 60.96 metres above the water at midspan; the roadbed is 54 feet / 18.45 meters wide; total length of all suspension cables is 42,000 miles / 67, 592 kilometers. The bridge was designed by David B. Steinman and built by the American Bridge Company of New York at a cost of $100 million (1957). Suspension bridge construction began in May 1954; the bridge opened for traffic on November 1, 1957. The toll bridge is part of Interstate 75 (I 75) with St. Ignace at the north end of the bridge; Mackinaw City at the south end.
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BNSF SD70MAC 9489 (ex-BN 9489) at Garrison, Montana on June 4, 2014.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Canon EFS 18-55mm lens
Sun dogs on either side of the golden arches (that block the sun). It was a glorious morning with hoar frost and mist in the air. Perfect conditions for parhelia associated with the winter solstice!
I honestly don't remember much about the history of this particular McDonald's, but the interior looks like some of their, ummm, interesting late-2010's design work! I do like how several different materials/ideas were thrown together here though. (Keyword there of course being *thrown* together) :P