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Haley's Antiques in Jefferson, Texas is a good old-fashioned junk store where you can walk through ancient rooms and admire clocks and other goodies hanging on walls still covered by original, turn-of-the-century (the 20th century, that is) wallpaper. It's a great travel through time, this place.
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There is so much history and interesting facts about this 600 year old clock, that I would do a disservice attempting to describe it here.
I invite you to look up facts about this amazing clock and read for yourself and be amazed.
Also, note the tile sidewalk - many of Old Prague's sidewalk are made of designs of these stones.
This is an image that I took back in September 2012 on the first of several trips to Boston, Massachusetts for work.
The clock tower is a noticeable part of the Boston skyline, whether you are down-town or on the other side of the harbour. The clock face is quite colourful, however, I felt shifting this to black and white better suited the image as it was taken well after dark.
A squashy-looking chair and a stately grandfather clock sit by
a house at the end of Chapel Street in Bradford, England. But they aren’t being moved or given away—they’ve been in the same place since the early 1990s. And they’re made out of stone.
Created by the artist Timothy Shutter, these pieces of stone furniture are a sculpture by the name of Grandad’s Clock and Chair. The piece was commissioned in 1991 by Bradford Council and Little Germany Action Group, and installed in 1992.
-- via Atlas Obscura
This cast iron clock, made by Glasgow foundry Walter Macfarlane & Co, was presented to the town by local business man James Hastings to commemorate the coronation of George V and Queen Mary. It has been returned to its original 1912 site in Effingham Square as part of a town centre redevelopment scheme.
The Clock Tower is a landmark in Hong Kong. It is located on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, it is usually referred to as the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower.
La estantería, puesta del revés, sirve de jaula para conejitos traviesos. Aunque Clock daba tanta penita ahí colgado que lo perdoné enseguida ^ ^U
This building is currently a parking lot. In 1937 it had the Chicago Hotel upstairs, as well as 3 cafes (one named Angelo Cafe on the corner) and a barber on the first floor, along with jeweler O. Kimura.
The clock on the right side of the photograph was owned by Otomatsu Kimura. This is one of four confirmed sightings of this clock. It was cataloged in a 1924 inventory of clocks, and is seen in a photo taken i late 1942, an undated (1940s or 1950s) image and a 1950 view. Because there is no street use permit for its installation, I believe it was installed prior to 1917.
According to his illegal internment file, Otomatsu was born in Japan in 1874 and arrived in the US in 1903. Marriage records show that he married Suwa Yamamoto in 1907, who was born in Shiga prefecture just like him. She immigrated to the US in 1907 and her signature was in Japanese on the certificate, hints that they had an arranged marriage. He was already 43. They had two sons and a daughter over the next five years.
In the 1910 census he already listed his profession as a retail jeweler. Newspaper articles later described him as a pawnbroker, so he sold at least some used good. A 1940 immigration document typewritten "jeweler" was overwritten with "watch maker" as his profession.
That same year he paid for an elaborate entry in the city directory, saying: "Expert watchmaker, all repair work guaranteed, 21 years of dependable service at this location, 510 Jackson near 5th Av S". That matches our photograph, where a large placard over his door says "O Kimura - Expert Watchmaker". If the date is accurate, he opened the store in 1909.
In 1940 his two sons Osamu ("Sam") and Kazuota were living with him with Kaz's wife Masako and their daughter Kujoko and newborn grandson Katsumi. The sons both worked at the University Club, one as a steward and one as a bartender.
He went to the holding area at the Puyallup fair grounds and then spent the war at the Minidoka camp. At the time he entered the prison he was 67 years old. His grandson was 3.
Otomatsu grew up on a farm in Japan, and must have worked at Puget Sound oyster beds and some sort of an amusement park per his employment record.
He returned to Seattle after the war with his wife, children and grandchildren.
Kimura died in 1964 at the age of 90. His obituary in the Seattle Times said that he owned his own store until he retired in 1955. Suwa preceded him in death in 1959. At that time they already had one great-grandchild. When he died there were 5.
I'm not yet sure if he returned to the same storefront and retained ownership of the clock. But by 1950 the clock's face was covered with a sign saying "DRY GOODS". So at least in the final years his business was elsewhere.
This photo is on the King County property card for parcel 524780-1590 at the Washington State Puget Sound Regional Archives.
I have a small collection of dead clocks that I sit on top of my kitchen cabinets for decoration....perhaps an odd choice for decor, but i dig it. Anyway, took this shot back in November....hand lit one exposure. I tried many different lightpainting element choices to work into the center....my trusty fake skull..cool but not great.... then went the cardboard tube/tunnel route as well as that is the easiest line up for a circle and staying within the boundaries for a tight shot....but still to no crushing impact in what my mind a photo at its best should have. So the photo has been sitting in my camera since then....getting ready to erase the card and decided to save this shot as it is.....on re-viewing it, i think the simplicity is pretty cool in this case on its own. A sense of mystery and darkness and a single subject. So this idea rests as it is now. And always remember.....even a dead clock is correct twice a day. :)
30 hours steeple-style shelf clock, c.1851-1860. Made by Ansonia Clock Co. of Connecticut using mahogany, mahogany veneer, pine, glass and brass. Clock has reverse painting on class of the original US Capital building, white face with Roman numerals. It has conical finials at corners and a deteriorated paper label inside. 20' tall, 9 7/8" wide and 4" deep.
ACC# 79.485
Donated by Frederick E. Bottiger, 1962
See other clocks in the Society's collection at flic.kr/s/aHskG4S1vr.
(Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
It was quiet and then all of a sudden something occurred.... A few minutes later (around 16 to be precise) the squares and bars were awash with a sea of people. The Friday before the Bank Holiday Weekend and payday for many to boot - even the sun made a lengthy appearance! This is just outside Canary Wharf Tube for those not familiar, in the heart of London's Docklands..
An interestingly different world-art clock, the widest I've ever seen, inside Star Duck Chung Coffee, Vientiane, Laos.