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Built c. 1900 at no. 417 South Front Street.
"Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.
With a population of 115,955 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the principal city of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that includes New Hanover and Pender counties in southeastern North Carolina, which has a population of 301,284 as of the 2020 Census. Its historic downtown has a 1.75-mile (2.82 km) Riverwalk, developed as a tourist attraction in the late 20th century. In 2014, Wilmington's riverfront was ranked as the "Best American Riverfront" by readers of USA Today. The National Trust for Historic Preservation selected Wilmington as one of its 2008 Dozen Distinctive Destinations.
City residents live between the river and the ocean, with four nearby beach communities just outside Wilmington: Fort Fisher, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Kure Beach, all within half-hour drives from downtown Wilmington. The city is home to University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), which provides a wide variety of programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and adult learners, in addition to cultural and sports events open to the community.
Toward the end of the 19th century, Wilmington was a majority-black, racially integrated prosperous city, and the largest city in North Carolina. In the Wilmington massacre of 1898, white supremacists launched a coup that overthrew the legitimately elected local Fusionist government. They expelled opposition black and white leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed an estimated 60 to more than 300 people. This coincided with broader efforts of disenfranchisement at the state level. Whereas North Carolina had 125,000 registered black voters in 1896, it had 6,000 by 1902. By 1910, Charlotte overtook Wilmington as North Carolina's largest city.
In 2003 the city was designated by the U.S. Congress as a "Coast Guard City," one of twenty-nine cities which currently bear that designation, and was the home port for the USCGC Diligence, a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter until 2020. On September 2, 2020, then-President Trump officially declared Wilmington as the first World War II Heritage City in the country. The World War II battleship USS North Carolina, now a war memorial, is moored across from the downtown port area, and is open to the public for tours. Other attractions include the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science, The Children's Museum of Wilmington, and the Wilmington Hammerheads United Soccer Leagues soccer team.
Wilmington is also the home of EUE/Screen Gems Studios, the largest domestic television and movie production facility outside California. "Dream Stage 10," the facility's newest sound stage, is the third-largest in the United States. It houses the largest special-effects water tank in North America. After the studio's opening in 1984, Wilmington became a major center of American film and television production. Numerous movies in a range of genres and several television series have been produced here, including Iron Man 3, Super Mario Bros., The Conjuring, The Crow, We're the Millers, Fox's Sleepy Hollow, One Tree Hill, Dawson's Creek, and NBC's Revolution." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Andrew Shaw - Sin Bum
Midnight Reader 472, 1963
Cover Artist: unknown
"Shame was a way of life for this – Sin Bum"
Andrew Shaw was a pseudonym of Lawrence Block
WEEK 31 – Columbus Kmart Closing, Set 5
(cont.) …we find that all of the books had been condensed fully onto this gondola unit instead, placed along the edge of the department.
I should probably clarify here, since I haven’t mentioned it yet, but this store’s electro-pli-mattress department was located in an alcove formed in the front center of the salesfloor. If you’re looking at the store from outside, here’s how things would line up: you’ve got the former café on the far left, then the checkouts, then electronics here, then the pharmacy, and finally the garden center on the far right. (Again, all this is much easier to picture on the store directory.)
Despite being 60 percent off, there actually looks to have still been a very healthy selection of books here! And from this angle, none of them look like particularly cheap or unknown author/franchise offerings, either, which may or may not be the case in still-operating Kmarts these days. In fact, someone please clue me in on that: does Kmart still carry books and magazines at all? If so, are any of the big-name publishers still supplying them with new stock of either item?
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
1/24 scale model I built of the Moebius Models International Lonestar stretched to a tri-drive.
Truck: I converted the fenders to except a set of bullet headlights from a die-cast. The mesh behind the grill was painted to match the body color. The Alien head is from a Cake decoration. The chassis is fully plumbed with air lines and fuel lines. Thanks to Andre' Watts for the diagrams. The interior is full of all kinds of neat stuff including cell phones. Pizza, Stereo system, Dog bowls and much more take some time to look around.
Trailer: The Trailer is a scratch built kit bashed custom design. I started out with 2 AMT Fruehauf flat beds. I cut the first trailer to create a double drop deck, however I was not happy with it so I add to the length to make it 53' This was a task and a half and add a huge amount of reinforcement work I had not originally planned. Once that was complete I decided to build a work shop in the back of the trailer. again turned out to be more work then I thought. But I'm very happy with the result. I then moved onto the boat mount. This was a huge pain many many changes cuts cursing and redoing. But I can for say I will never see another one on a model.The front box was probably the easiest part of the build but then I thought lets go one step further and add an observation deck. Finally once that was all done I had a great idea to diamond plate the trailer boat area. This turned into a huge task as every section had to be cut separately then foiled. I used household aluminum foil as BMF would have cost me a fortune.
Boat: The final piece of this project and the hardest part was the boat. The boat started as the old Testors Miss Budweiser kit, The kit while very nice I very basic and not really what I wanted. I started by inclosing the engine bay which originally had a very basic detailed Allison engine. It took about 6 tries before I finally was happy with the enclosure. IF YOU ASK NICE I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I FINALLY USED. I then moved on to the cockpit which in the original kit had this odd looking round seat and barely anything else. Since this was suppose to be a more modern boat I decided to go with a NASCAR race seat and a NASCAR modified dash board from a Revell Tony Stewart kit. I added photo etched seat belts from Eduard Model Accessories and a resin MSD box and fire extinguiser. I also added a photo etched remove before flight tag to the nose of the boat
PAINT and Other Details: Tamiya Candy Lime Green, Tamiya Black, Tamiya Pearl Clear. Foil is from Dollar Tree
I have just won the 'Reader Showcase' in the Sept, 2012 Digital SLR (Malaysia Version) with this picture.
2:45 pm, 19 March, a blustery day on the promenade at Portobello, Edinburgh. She is reading Paul Coelho, 'The Alchemist', Apologies for interrupting your reading.
For more readers, see www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.