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Ralph's Deli & Grocery in #NYC has a colorful #storefront and #fontastic signage! We especially love the "R" and the mix of Spanish and English groceries listed. Who can resist cervezas and sodas. #bodega #signgeeks #everything_signage #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #signcollective #typevstime #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signage #lettering #ig_signage #handpainted

We always love finding old Coca-Cola #signage as it takes us right back to the time when the company gave these signs away for free to businesses that sold their product. All the small businesses had to do was add their own copy, usually in the form of enamel #lettering that was also supplied by #cocacola. #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signcollective #typevstime #ipulledoverforthis #gas_food_lodging #trb_ipoft_signs #guardiancities #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #vintage #signsofgrime #myfeatureshoot #filthyfacades

Tranquility!

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Another relaxing day at the lake, fishing and sunset!

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A minute past midnight conductor Ryan Reierson rolls the Eastern Washington Gateway Scoot train by at Fictenberg (most likely a misspelling of the German Fichtenberg) under a cloudless very starry night. The 30-second exposure sends the train into warp speed though its actual speed hovers around 10 miles an hour. Out here, though near US Hwy 2, it can get unnerving in the black of night when you’re alone, waiting for the train, its headlight searching out the night as it makes its way to you surely, but ever so slowly as the coyotes, cougars and other curious creatures of the night make their unseen presence known. Soon the rails begin to wake in snaps and pops exponentially as the weight of the train nears. As the procession comes into earshot the squeaking and squawking locomotive running gear immixed with the grumbling and whining of their prime movers followed by the long line of cars rocking and rolling, drawbars dropping here and there on account of less than favorable track alignment and cross elevation. In minutes the squealing flanges and droning diesels have passed back into the darkness and the critters of the night take off where they left, but not before the time-honored “Good Roll-By at Fictenberg, 328” is given and the distinctive crackle of the radio relays the engineer’s confirmation. “Roger that! Good roll-by at Fictenberg. See you down the road, 328 out.” as the smell of diesel exhaust lingers in the cool air. (©19Apr17)

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Arriving just in time to pixilate this electrifying capture, an eastbound BNSF stack sees green at the east end of double track on the Columbia River Sub. Already, the hiss of releasing brakes slithers through the blackness as Zeus hurls a brace of negatively-charged cloud-to-ground lighting bolts that crack the scene like a broken mirror. Undisturbed, the hogger gets his mile-long snake of stacks slipping away towards Spokane. (© 08Jun18)

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You know you’re in Texas when....

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This ‪#‎barber‬ shop not only had an amazing old ‪#‎sign‬ and ‪#‎handpainted‬ gold leaf lettering in the window but also had stenciled ‪#‎barbershop‬ tools including scissors, razors and brushes along the top of the roll gate. We also loved all the old ‪#‎signage‬ in the windows showing the variety of ‪#‎hair‬ cuts and styles they specialized in. 35 mm film photo is from 2004 and appears in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". Sadly this Nostrand Avenue ‪#‎storefront‬ went out of business in 2006 and was replaced by an instant refund tax center with very bland signage. ‪#‎signgeeks‬ ‪#‎disappearingfaceofnewyork‬ ‪#‎jj_texttypographical‬ ‪#‎jj_doorsandwindows‬ ‪#‎type‬ ‪#‎typography‬ ‪#‎typevstime‬ ‪#‎font‬ ‪#‎tv_retrotype‬ ‪#‎tv_typography‬ ‪#‎ipulledoverforthis‬ ‪#‎signofgrime‬

Peace!

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Another view from Meadow View Nature Area.

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02:56 crew change at Cole’s Crossing (homestead in the background) somewhere along US 2 between night and a barley dozen degree morning. In the 45 cab, Eastern Washington Gateway Engineer “Jay” Pospisil (aka Popsicle) and Conductor Scott Rohrig have just been briefed by and relieved the previous crew to continue the train’s trek west on the venerable “CW.” Some 2100 feet into the icy, countlessly pinholed-black, flashing-red Fred dutifully comms control-stand-perched Mary he’s good-to-go and Jay releases the binders throttle in opposite hand opens it to give his horses the gitty up. Just above the headlight I spot Orion’s belt and I pause to consider how much tonnage this inimitable ’69 LaGrange mare has hauled about murica while she proudly wore Espee’s iconic scarlet and grey dress, and how many tons she helped shove black and blue over Mullan Pass while stabled, fed and ploughing for Montana Rail Link? Here on the EWG, she still earns her keep: daily, for the foreseeable future. Rolling, and that unmistakable squeaking of flexing flexicoil trucks and EMD turbo whine fade and vanish into the arctic darkness, my image securely frozen in timeless time. (23Dec17 ©)

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🍳🍔 Empire Diner is one of the last free-standing diners left in Manhattan and is located inside a 1946 Fodero Dining Car. It closed in 2015, after a second failed attempt to revive it. This photo was taken in 2009 before the #miniature stainless steel stylized #Empire State Building @empirestatebldg replica was removed from its roof. Photo and full interview with former owner Carolyn Benitez appear in our book "New York Nights". #storefront #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signgeeks #typevstime #signcollective #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #igs_nyc #guardiancities #reportagespotlight #myfeatureshoot

S&S Diner on the edge of the #Wynwood Arts District in Miami was established in 1938. The #diner had a horseshoe-shaped counter with stool seating that held only 18 people. There were no private tables or booths and was cash only serving just breakfast ☕️🍳 or lunch 🍔🍟. Unfortunately the #vintage diner was forced to close in 2016 after the land it is located on was sold for $33 million to a real estate developer. Sadly another victim of this neighborhood's #gentrifcation. #miami #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #typography #dailytype #storefront #typevstime #gas_food_lodging #ipulledoverforthis #signcollective #signage

Out here “at” Hanson because there is no town to be “in,” this cold December night’s scintillating circumpolar stars streak through the heavens as they arc about the North Star leaving 468 seconds (that’s 1.95 degrees of angle, for you star buffs) of trails carved into space and time. It’s 04:24, and what hubristic Northern Pacific land-grabbers had hoped would become a thriving community as its built-in-the-very-late 1800’s Central Washington branch line was surveyed to serve the expectant rise of hamlet Hanson never materialized. Save for the Aermotor well tower sans its windmill and vane of the lone long-vanished homestead, more likely, the lonely outpost for the former elevator operator and family just across the county road from the two sets of elevators and “station” sign are all that tangibly mark Hanson as an actual place. At 2110 feet, some plus or minus 200 feet higher than the two whistle-stops a few mile poles down either direction of clickety-clack, the elevators are still served from time-to-time as the scene at hand shows and glows red from the flashing EOT hanging on the shadow of a five-car-cut of covered hoppers leaving the Hanson elevator track being picked up by the westbound Washington Eastern Scoot Train. The cars will be set out at Hartline only to be brought east for unloading with the next eastbound Scoot Train on account Hanson’s east switch having been removed due to damage years ago making it safer and easier to move the loads west, then east. Indeed, “through hardship to the stars,” the Central Washington has survived through two mergers, several owners and operators, with the most recent operator, Washington Eastern of the Western Group, granted a 10-year operating agreement by CW owner WSDOT to breath new life into the venerable line. (© 04Dec18)

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Luigi's Pizza in Park Slope, Brooklyn has been in business since 1973. We absolutely love @luigispizzaparkslope 's #signage with the #script #lettering and are huge fans of their fresh mozzarella #pizza 🍕which is sprinkled with their home-grown fresh herbs. The 2nd-generation owner Giovanni Lanzo told us, "my father Luigi emigrated here from Calabria where he was a farmer. He opened this #Pizzeria using his family's recipes for the sauce and pizza. He still grows many of the fresh ingredients we use including tomatoes 🍅 and herbs 🌿 at his farm in Staten Island". Photo from 2006 and full interview with Giovanni appear in our book, "Store Front:The Disappearing Face of New York". #storefront #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #ipulledoverforthis #gas_food_lodging #signcollective #jj_texttypographical #everything_signage #ig_signage #typevstime #fontastic

Somewhere on the CW Sub

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Near MP 49 just west of Rocklyn, Washington (© 14May19)

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Belmont, CA - October 2020

”Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” -

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This one-stop shop for toys, cards, office supplies 📓✂️, sporting goods ⚽️🏈🏀, gifts, games, bicycles 🚲, and stationery has a great #vintage #handpainted sign. We are not sure how they fit all those items into this small #store but the window displays were jam packed. Photo from 2004 appears in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York." #storefront #ipulledoverforthis #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #signgeeks #typevstime #signcollective #everything_signage

Santa Cruz, CA - September 2014

It was known for its retro vibe and Southern comfort food like Mac-and-Cheese and barbecue ribs. The space where Duke's was located as well as the adjoining restaurant City Crab will be the new location of Danny Meyer's Union Square Cafe. We are not sure what happened to all of its #neon and #vintage #signage but hope that it was saved. Outtake from our book NEW YORK NIGHTS. #neonsign #neongeeks #signgeeks #tv_retrotype #jj_doorsandwindows #jj_texttypographical #tv_typography #SignCollective #ipulledoverforthis #gas_food_lodging #trb_ipoft_signs #everything_signage #type #typevstime #typography #font #fontastic #foundtype

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Mouth-washing, diesel-gargling, carbon-brushed, breath-reeking, blackened-jugs, tumbling, in slow-idle, chomping-at-the-bit, like so many horses waiting, waiting to team their brawn; to push forward behind their flag-bearer waving a faded-to-lead, black and white ‘stead red, white and blue against a backdrop of gritty armour yellow, grey-dulled by repeated internal and external heatings while just beyond the soot-stained flutes, flange-squeal, slack-action, multi-modal-merica, tables-stacked, doubled-up, express-charging federal’s banner blurs.

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It’s 0312, somewhere between late and early – depending on your perspective of time – as Lind Turn wraps up a long night of “local” work on the Lakeside Sub. SD75M 272 and her sister hold hands as they play in the first significant winter snowfall. But they’ll have to sit tight for a bit before they can make their final pick up at Marshall of tanks from the W&I as a crewman under the amber glow of sodium vapor is seen fighting the ornery “heated” switch that’s ice-cold-stubborn and doesn’t want to play. He’ll wrestle with it a few more times between having the hogger run the very abbreviated Turn over the turnout a time or two before the switchman gets the switch to play ball and throw. Within minutes they’ll have what they came for, complete an air test, hop on and warm up in the 75’s wide cab while waiting for the light to change and does. On the move, they’ll tie up at Yardley and head home as I pack up my chilled gear and trudge through the powder towards my toasty rig to highball home as well after workin’ late early. (16Dec17 ©)

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I don’t know what they’re planning, but it’s gonna be good!

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Vallejo, CA - July 2019

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Another gorgeous sunset.

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A few leading lines and shadows. This taken just outside the Winspear Opera House located in the Dallas Arts District.

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