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Signs and roadworks aplenty at the bottom of Market Street, and the junction of Caroline Street, Longton. This appears to be another of the buildings in Stoke-on -Trent that is built to suit an unusual angle. The structure to the left is the railway bridge close to Longton Station.
In a picture dated 1951 this building was a Milk bar.
Longton town centre is listed as a conservation area at risk by English Heritage.
A link to the English Heritage At Risk Register: risk.english-heritage.org.uk/register.aspx?id=4644&rt...
Shop sign of Annakapelle, Weingut K. Wilhelm (Anna chapel, Winery K. Wilhelm) in Maikammer, district Südliche Weinstraße (southern wine route), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
April 2003.
i am always intruiged by those get rick quick posters that line the junctions and street corners. who puts them there? does anyone ever phone them? Thought this might amuse those people driving to work and consider the questions i do!
got a few good ones posted in a few pubs last night too. great opportunity to see the public interact with them. got me thinking how busy public spaces might be a good venue for Free art friday things.
plus I'll justify spending time in lots of pubs!
i have got the printer churning these out. not sticky i'm afraid (so you'll have to sort your own paste) laminating is getting expensive too so you'll have to sort that out. i'm happy to sort the postage if you want some though.
I also very happy to see people copy them or make their own up. (it's not rocket science!)
just think of the fun!!!
see the set here www.flickr.com/photos/mydogsighs/sets/1059163/
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I like to find some cool patterns down on the ground.. I guess Sherlock Holmes would be proud of me:) That small stamp of a wheel is so cool!
Construction in background is part of the Joliet multi-modal project, a costly endeavor which will create new commuter rail platforms away from the freight traffic. Also, a NEW train station will have to be built, but the HISTORIC one will remain. While this project will create a better link for Pace busses to connect with trains (and it will make the commuter hub more cyclist-friendly, I am not pleased with the need to build a new (and inferior) station when compared with the original one. New Avenue, looking east. The brick crosswalk runs under the Metra Rock Island and connects with Scott & Washington Streets st the junction of Union Station. Oddly, Washington resumes just east of the tracks on which the "piggyback" freight train is running.
Welcome to Paradise! They even have a sign when you get there. It's in the Upper Peninsula, tucked up there by Lake Superior.
While the L.A. City Neighborhood Signs Project was officially ongoing in 2007, the consensus was that the North Hollywood signs had all been supplanted by "NOHO Arts District" signs, or "Toluca Woods" signs, or "Valley Glen" signs, or whatever.
But I finally found one, on eastbound Sherman Way at the river (between Woodman and Fulton).
As I was driving to my planned cemetery visit, I passed this little cemetery. I came back and didn't even see a sign naming it. It had such fabulous stones. Still, no name. I came home and did some research. Here are two articles I found on this little cemetery located in Palmyra, Pennsylvania:
The cemetery that no one wants.
April 10, 2008
BY MONICA VON DOBENECKÂ
No one wants the Cherry Street cemetery in Palmyra, where about 1,000 people are buried, including veterans of the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War and the Civil War.
The cemetery is supposedly owned by a private corporation started in 1867 and run by a board of trustees elected by lot owners. But the trustees are long gone and nobody can find lot owners. A bank account has $30,000 for maintenance, but no one is authorized to write checks. Volunteers have been mowing the grass, but they're tired of the work.
At a news conference today, representatives of two churches that have taken care of the cemetery for the past 140 years said will do so no longer and are turning their records over to the Borough of Palmyra.
Borough manager Sherry Capello said she has no intention of accepting them. "For 140 years, the churches accepted care of the cemetery," she said. "We feel they have the responsibility."
The cemetery began in 1867, when six people who were members of the predecessors to Palm Lutheran Church and Trinity United Church of Christ formed the Palmyra Cemetery Association. Trustees were elected by lot owners, but at some point the annual elections stopped. Church members continued to manage the cemetery.
According to Palm Lutheran church member Harry Fox, the churches got a letter from the borough in 2003 saying the sidewalk next to the cemetery needed repairs. The churches hired attorney John Feather to check into their legal authority and their obligation to care for the cemetery. Feather concluded they had neither.
Capello said the borough contacted the churches when neighbors started complaining that grass and weeds were getting high.
For a while, volunteers from the Brethren in Christ church agreed to take care of it because their church was across the street. But the dozen or so volunteers decided at the end of last year they wouldn't do it any longer.
In the meantime, Feather tried to find people who would act as temporary trustees to get the cemetery association going. He was unsuccessful. He also couldn't find lot owners, although a woman was buried there as recently as a year ago.
Fox said in a written statement Thursday, "The churches have concluded that their mission and ministry is not to operate and maintain a cemetery."
Feather said he would leave the cemetery records with the library or the historical society if the borough does not accept them. He said the Pennsylvania Borough Code and the Pennsylvania Burial Grounds Law give the courts the right to direct the borough to take over neglected cemeteries.
According to Capello, that can happen if a majority of a borough's property owners agree. The code limits the amount a borough can pay for cemetery maintenance yearly to $3,000, she said.
Bob Stewart, director of the Pennsylvania Cemetery Funeral and Cremation Association, said there are hundreds of abandoned cemeteries in the state, many of them started in the 1800's. "The state doesn't have anything for abandoned cemeteries," he said. "I don't know what you do in that situation."
Capello said the situation is sad. "You can't just walk away because you don't want to do it any more and throw it at the borough," she said. "What's really sad is that it is a cemetery, and it's like disrespecting the dead."
and an update from May 2009:
Borough to mow cemetery for now
Friday, May 01, 2009
BY BARBARA MILLER arbmiller@patriot-news.com
PALMYRA - Palmyra Borough Council will mow the "orphan" cemetery on West Cherry Street this summer, while the borough and two churches say they are hoping for resolution of the dispute over care of the site.
Council agreed April 27 to mow the cemetery through Oct. 1 and bill the cemetery's trust fund for the cost, which is estimated at $1,000 per mowing.
"Council concluded it's the right thing to do for the appearance of the community in general," said Keith Costello, council president. "And it doesn't put us in a bad position if we need to proceed with litigation."
Care of the cemetery is in dispute, because its board of trustees no longer exists. While members of two churches that once had representation on the trustees cared for the cemetery for 140 years, last year they said they will no longer do so.
After the borough tried to get the churches to repair sidewalk along the cemetery in 2003, the churches researched ownership and concluded this was not their responsibility.
The borough last year filed a petition in Lebanon County court asking the churches to be held responsible for care of the cemetery.
Josele Cleary, borough solicitor, said borough officials met recently with representatives of the churches. No agreement was reached, but they will continue meeting, she said.
Representatives of Palm Lutheran and Trinity United Church of Christ met Monday and agreed on a proposal to work with the borough on this issue, said the Rev. Mike Beynon of Trinity.
"I'm glad the cemetery is going to be maintained, and I'm glad for the increasing amount of camaraderie working with the new officials in the borough," Beynon said.
Taken at the Woolpack Inn at Totford.
"Wine is sunlight held together by water"
"Compromises is for relationships not wine"
Laine took Grandma through the photobooth as well. I like her smile in picture #3.
Laine, Grandma.
kissing.
peace sign.
photobooth, Seacobeck Hall, Mary Washington Unviersity, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
September 12, 2009.
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Laine is my cousin (mom's sister Beth's daughter).
Grandma Prophet is my grandmother (mom's mom).
BACKSTORY: I fixed up some of the photobooth pictures a bit. Cropped out the silly 2nd column and extra whitespace, run auto-color which removed the washed out effect but lowered the gamma significantly, turned up the gamma bit where I thought that was an improvement, and then used color-based selection to select just the highlights and turn those down a bit. I also completely desaturated the fake black & white pics (that are actually blueish) into a real black & white. I definitely prefer them better than the originals!
Part of a sign on a new guest house here in La Parguera, Puerto Rico.
Taken with my Olympus E-300 and OM 50mm f/1.8 lens. Pretty much straight out of camera. Raw image developed in Olympus Studio. Resize and USM applied in Photoshop 7.
Blockbuster (closed) [7,085 square feet]
203 West Mercury Boulevard, Hampton, VA
Built and opened in 1991, closed in winter 2012
People walking up Brookline Ave, towards Fenway Park. The Citgo Sign sits atop the BU Bookstore in the background.
"Healthy people are not tired in the morning." I was able to make out the message and grab my camera in time to snap a photo, despite not yet having had my first cup of coffee of the day. I guess I passed the healthiness test.
This electricty pole located next to Carmyllie Hall sports a stark warning sign and some barbed wire to try discourage anyone who might fancy climbing up it.
This building also has a cool looking neon sign, which I'll have to get a picture of in the dark.
Wakefield MA
I couldn't get enough of these. Hand-painting is standard for most signs in Peru and the sign painters are skilled and inventive. It made my inner typeface-geek squirm with joy
this direction sign was in a park somewhere near rudeshiem up in the hills. i thought this was rather good