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This was the toughest item to do this Month.
Rita had only one item with the word Elastic in it.
Her photo is below.
Deb has short hair and of course I have hardly any hair.
So I took a trip to several places to find these elastic hair thingies.
Yesterday on my way home and getting desperate I stopped in a CVS Pharmacy and found these.
While not as colorful as Rita's they are similar. Sort of.
This shop is in Earlham Street and from the enamel sign you can see it was a hardware shop for many many years, up until 2001 in fact. The shop was owned by a local character by the name of Fred Collins and his father before him, also named Fred. I believe his grandfather was also Fred, in fact there were I believe several generations of Freds. Anyway, this shop was typical of small independent shops that resisted the takeover by pornography that dominated the area in the 1980s.
One of those Victorian Freds was responsible for the ‘discovery’ of the elastic glue. Apparently he had the idea of mixing an adhesive that would stay flexible when set. The glue was prepared it in the basement of the shop in huge cast iron cauldrons and sold batches to fix saddles and problem horse shoes.
Sadly the shop appears to have run out of Freds in 2001, and despite the sign, it is no longer an ironmongers.
I added two kinds of elastic : a flat 1in elastic under the knee, and a thick elastic thread at the top of the ribbing
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Pillsbury Flour
This is an image selected from the pages of my new book, "Sets, Scenes and Stages in Exploration."
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Sets, Scenes and Stages in Exploration is a retrospective of the time I spent photographing my adventures in Urban Exploration.
Stories of will, triumph and companionship are paired with images of industry, show casing the most romantic corners of the city.
Read the preamble in book preview mode to learn more.