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The Live concert was quite the entertainment. I was told I was going by some friends even though I don't know much about the band (well, I did years ago, but not recently). Then I almost lost all of these friends when the door guy almost refused me with my camera (I still can't believe I sweet talked him enough to let me in).
While Lakewood Theatre is a great venue, it was unbelievably hot inside and we didn't realize we would be in the standing room only area (several of us had to step outside a few times to rest our feet -- women and their heels!) But it was when the lead singer came out, shirt half-way unbuttoned, that I couldn't believe what I was about to witness: the ripping off of the shirt in pure Michael Jackson fashion...
If only I'd had my new, easily hideable camera to get proof.
I will try to find out more about this hotel since I don't think I photographed it in 2008. This tells about the McAlpin: www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/143701629/
"Frasher Foto" Postcard - B&W shot of the Las Vegas, Nevada Union Pacific Railroad Station at the west end of Fremont street at Main Street. Currently where the Union Plaza Hotel and Casino is located. - 1940
Jump to 1946:
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Art-Moderne house, built in 1939 by Jack Hambly. A rare example of Art-Moderne residential architecture in Ontario, featuring (1) a horizontal composition with a flat roof, (2) rounded corners, (3) corner windows, (4) horizontal lines, (5) smooth surfaces, (6) horizontal window panes, (7) a porthole window, (8) cruise-ship railings, and (9) a prominent door surround.
Original, wave-like landscaping from 1939 and original shrubs, including Hetz blue juniper and Woodwardii white cedar.
Photo from 1964.
Exiting the old Boy's Department, I saw something which literally stopped me in my tracks – something that had vanished entirely from my memory, and yet came flooding back the instant I saw it. The Bullock's Barber Shop! OMG, it's still there! Nothing I saw in the whole building that day impressed me (or touched me) as much as this. That Macy's would actually preserve a little 1940s-'50s kids' barber shop in their swank new store – wow, that just blew me away. And not only did they preserve it, they restored it to looking brand new. It actually looks nicer today than when I was a kid!
Macy's Pasadena Plaza on Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA, September 23, 2011.
This photo had 7 views during the time it was posted on my ashetlandpony Flickr account.
Some of the elevator doors in these art deco hotels were even more covered in period design than the rest of their interiors but harder to capture so I think this might be the only one worth sharing.
An artsier view of the Colony (than yesterday's) which shows all the lettering and skyline facade but not the front under the canopy, thus 2 is better than 1 here :>) A Morris Lapidus design according to some accounts.
The Alabama Theatre, at 2922 South Shepherd, opened in 1939 with a screening of Man About Town. The theater was designed in the art deco-streamline moderne style by W. Scott Dune. The theater eventually closed as a The theater has been adapted and as part of the Alabama Shepherd Shopping Center, has been home to Houston's first Trader Joe's since 2012.
My last picture for now of the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. This one took more time to process because it had a lot of perspective distortion, which I corrected after the fact.
The picture is a little off because the tower does not appear to get smaller as it goes up -- an artifact of correcting the perspective distortion. Architectural drawings sometimes minimize perspective this way to more accurately reflect the proportions, but the eye still expects more distant things to look smaller.
Ravelston Garden, or "the Jenners Flats" after the original managing agents, is a striking grade A listed art deco housing development, in the steamline moderne style, in an upmarket neighbourhood of Edinburgh. It is by Andrew Neil and Robert Hurd, dating from 1935. There are three 4-storey blocks, with elegant curving garages and service blocks at ground level and well manicured, terraced lawns.
Each block is a wide "X" when viewed from above and there are external staircases around a streamlined chimney breast recessed between the legs of the X.
This was one of the streamline moderne hotels I had noted from other people's streams here at flickr that I wanted to spend some time photographing the minimalist angles, etc. but again I found more :>)!
The Aquatic Park Bathhouse, now the Maritime Museum of the SF Maritime National Park, was a WPA project during the Great Depression. It was designed in the streamline moderne style and was the pinnacle of modernity. It contained an emergency hospital, restaurant, concession stand, skylights, showers activated by photoelectric "eyes", and lockers and dressing rooms that could accommodate hundreds of swimmers. The Aquatic Park Historic District is a US National Historic Landmark.
Treasure Island is an artificial island in San Francisco Bay and a neighborhood of the City of San Francisco. Built 1936–37 for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the island's World’s Fair site is a California Historical Landmark (No. 987). The exposition celebrated the ascendancy of California and San Francisco as economic, political and cultural forces in the increasingly important Pacific Region. In addition to Building 2 (Hangar 2) and Building 3 (Hangar 3) (the hangars being intended for post-exposition use by Pan Am Clipper flying boats), exposition buildings remaining today include Building 1 (Streamline Moderne architecture) intended after the expo as the Pan American World Airways terminal. From 1939 to 1944, the Island was the landing site for flights of the China Clipper into Clipper Cove. Treasure Island was a U.S. Naval Station from 1941 to 1997.
Shown here is Building 1.
On the corner of busy Williams Road and quiet Rathmines Street in the exclusive Melbourne suburb of Toorak stand the "Park Manor" flat complex.
These wonderful Streamline Moderne brown brick flats achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular worldwide in the mid to late 1930s. Even their name appears in wonderfully Art Deco Broadway style font.
As when they were built, these spacious flats are for the well-heeled citizens of Melbourne, and they are exceptionally well maintained.
Sale, Victoria, Australia
Now part of the Macalister Secondary College.
Foundation stone date: 11th Feb 1944
Designed by Sir John Burnet Tait & Lorne. The large hospital is laid out symmetrically, and pays homage to the brick style Dutch architect Dudok, in the handling of large masses and raked-out brick detailing. --------- (LON_0208_4316 - Image copyrighted).
2011 photo op of "the diving board" - Photos taken in Astoria Park near the great old 1930's pool in Astoria Queens New York City. Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 183, designed by Plummer, Wurdeman, and Becket in 1935, demolished in 1992 following a 1989 fire.
Union Station was designed by John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson who also designed the Los Angeles City Hall among many other landmarks. The structure is an interesting combination between Mission Revival and Streamline Moderne style. It opened in 1939 and is the last great train station constructed in the United States. Amtrak, Metrolink, the Metro Red line, Metro Gold line, and buses serve the station. It is on the National Register #80000811 (and really should also be a National Historic Landmark).
Originally The Maybury Roadhouse (apt since it sits overlooking one of the busiest road junctions in Edinburgh) designed by Patterson and Broom, 1935-36. This is a striking dominant Art Deco building, refurbished sympathetically with original features remaining when it became a casino in 1990.
This shows clearly how every surface is swept back smoothly behind the sharp point of the bow. The design was to allow the ship to cut smoothly through the wind and the water. This is often considered the first great Streamline Moderne Ocean Liner.
I wasn't able to capture all of the sweet details in the marquee of the Kirk Douglas Theater in one shot. The neon alone is pretty spectacular.
This is a 3-exposure HDR.
The Co-Operative Department Store is the finest example of Pre-WWII Modernist building in Derby City Centre. It was built 1938-40 and designed in-house by Derby Co-Operative Society's own architect, Sid Bailey - and having been built by the D.C.S's own Building Department it is completely 'Made In Derby'. Can there be a finer example of Streamline Moderne glazing going round a street corner anywhere else in the UK? This early-evening view shows some attractive uplighting on the former Central Hall opposite and the iconic verdigris-coloured roof of Derby Market Hall in the background.
The Lincoln-Drexel Building is a two story Art Deco gem. Built in the 1930's, the Lincoln-Drexel Building's sweeping Art Deco style has been preserved and the entire bottom floor is occupied by New York's famous 5 Napkin Burger.
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I will create a new set for this Astoria Park public pool with cool streamline modern diving board and add this one to one of my newer collage sets as well. Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
Different neighborhood than the other deco residences 1-4 but on the same thoroughfare street. This house and #7 are neighboring houses however.
This is my absolute favorite deco structure in all of SoBe but I can't find any documentation on it online to tell you what it is for sure. I'm assuming it is a bus shelter and is right outside The Wolfsonian Museum at around 1000 Washington Ave. These will be my last SoBe images in this 1st set and for awhile since I have lots of other photos waiting to be uploaded. Enjoy!!
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.