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The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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Dark-eyed junco in a tree near Lytton St. and Gordon Ave. in Westview, 2024 qathet Christmas Bird Count.
Sony α 77 ii
Tamron AF 200-400mm ƒ/5.6 LD-IF 75DM
Abandoned places in Berlin
The former investigative and district court prison in Berlin Köpenick * 1899 was begun in Berlin-Köpenick with the construction of a district court and a prison and taken at the end of 1901 in operation. In May 1933, the SA took over the prison. She used it as a central detention and torture center. During this time, known as Blood Week, communists, dissenters, and Jews were maltreated and murdered behind thick brick walls.
At the time of the GDR, the building was initially used as a men's and youth prison and later converted as a remand prison. Since the eighties, the building is largely empty.
The dilapidated Berlin-Köpenick prison shows Spartan prison conditions at the time of the Emperors. No heating, no toilets, sleeping in dark, tiny cells on wooden bunks
Decades of decay have left their mark: once green and white paint peeling off the walls,
Cell to cell, four stories high, door latch and folding spy doors through which the guards watched the inmates.
If you were here, you whould not feel the need to come back here after the dismissal.
My own photograph of a female mallard, taken with a Canon EOS 550D - 400mm focal length at 1/4000 sec.
'Out of Bounds' effect created in Paintshop Pro.
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Hasselblad 500C/M + C80 T* + Portra160NC
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This is a response for the Get pushed Group round 45, This time I was paired with rafartreides2009 he challenged me to follow the theme of one of this flickr groups challenges:
Bench Monday, Treemendous Tuesday, Bokeh Wednesday, Fenced Friday, Sliders Sunda.
I chose bokeh!
...also week 16
Perseids
Counting meteors with tails in the picture: approx. 30 - 40 pcs.
Attention: Photo with 8256 x 5504 Pixel.
Editing in Lightroom: full image only, no single object.
Added markers in PS.
Photo data: D850 with 20 mm Sigma 1.4, ISO 500, exposure time 8 sec.
Only a few of the shooting stars were visible without any tool.
Further images show a similarly high density of meteorites.
thanks to Fernando and Klaus for the impetus !
13+1
Listenwave Photography
What does not matter ?😜
1.What to photograph - Camera. 📷📱
2.Where to photograph - Place. 🌋
3.When to photograph -Time.🌅🌄
What is important ?😎
1.Study and tune the camera. 👨🔧
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.🌞🌚
What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says. 🙏
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave. 🌊
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
What to photograph?
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
Talk about a very lucky shot!
This is the earliest they have ever appeared in our woods. You could always count on them covering the forest floor around the third week in April.
mandymooscloset.weebly.com/fashion-blog/count-on-me
Pose - Cool Kids - Dark Magic Poses
Model Left
Hair - Fatal - Stealthic
Make Up - Cocoa Cream - Booty's Beauty
Necklace - Love Necklace - Avaway
Top - Bernice - Adorsy
Jumper - Bernice Overall - Adorsy
Heels - Greece White - Essenz
Model Right
Hair - Polly - Truth
Earrings & Necklace - Farfalla - Cae
Right Bracelet - Love Bracelets - Avaway
Left Bracelet - Monogram Bracelet - Cae
Top - Bonnie White - Adorsy
Overall - Bonnie Overall Black - Adorsy
Shoe - Camdyn Laced Up Heel - Reign
Count Dracula, the most recent addition to our Halloween decor collection. He's about 12" tall, with a cone-shaped base (like a tree-topper?), and we absolutely HAD to have him!!
The number of my followers is still rising. a big THANK YOU for everybody out there who cares for my pictures strong enough to follow me!
Die Zahl meiner Follower wächst noch. Ein großes DANKESCHÖN an alle da draußen, die sich die Zeit nehmen, mir zu folgen!
Toy Project Day 786
Inverness allocated 37183 at Eastfield TMD.
What i never noticed before until i uploaded this photo is that all locos in it are 37s and all in Large Logo livery. Unusual on both counts as 37s weren't the only classes to be found at Eastfield and 37s in large logo livery were not that common even though this was 1985.
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It's funny how they used the same head for Count Dooku and Saruman, seeing how they're both played by Christopher Lee. Which makes it even more funny how Yoda looks remarkably like an Orc.
This was taken a few nights ago in New York City, the view from the hotel was incredible and I had the thought that this year was so full of moments that I wanted to collect like stars to have over me and look at whenever I wanted.
I'm very happy to announce that I'm one of the judges for Flickr's 12 Days contest! You can enter your photos to win an amazing prize!
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Earlier today, I was looking forward to a day off tomorrown, calm, quiet with not much to do at all.
I was wrong.
Heading way south tomorrow, again.
Hopefully, it will be a good journey.
The ever popular Winnats Pass. The proxity to road definitely appealed to me for a summer sunrise! I wonder what lives in that cave?
"Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre (Swedish: [ˈaksɛl ²ʊksɛnˌɧæːɳa] (About this sound listen); 1583–1654), Count of Södermöre, was a Swedish statesman.[1] He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. He was a confidant of first Gustavus Adolphus and then Queen Christina.[2]
Oxenstierna is widely considered one of the most influential people in Swedish history. He played an important role during the Thirty Years' War and was appointed Governor-General of occupied Prussia; he is also credited for having laid the foundations of the modern central administrative structure of the State, including the creation of counties." (Wikipedia)
The drawing was published in the book "Från Slott till Koja" (1891) by W.W. Thomas Jr.
Colouring by me.
This year's "Winter Count" for the Utata group on Flickr - my 12 top photos of the year, roughly one per month. Click the links below for the individual photos...
1. Short North Lights, 2. Holocaust Memorial, 3. Light & Glass, 4. Buzzard, 5. Blue Light, 6. Intersections, 7. In Motion, 8. One Way (redux), 9. Night's End, 10. Enter Here..., 11. Autumn Reflections, 12. Two Figures
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