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A step van mail delivery truck in use by the United States Postal Service. Don't know exactly but most likely this one was built by Morgan Olson.
The Mies Van der Rohe designed United States Post Office in Downtown Chicago's Loop.
MIES PROVES “GOD IS IN THE DETAILS”
"Modernism is the style that changed our visual world
in the 20th century, and Chicago’s Federal Center is among the world’s most important modernist sites.
These structures display the features that make great works of modernism so compelling: dramatic profiles, spatial energy, and striking visual contrasts and harmonies.
In his design process, Mies developed three different schemes for the site, playing with various combinations of government offices, a courthouse and a post office.
In his final design, he separated those functions into 3 distinct buildings all situated on an open plaza.
Today, the plaza hosts festivals, farmers markets AND protests—activities that signify the vibrant relationships between citizens, business and government.
The glass + steel buildings are constructed on a rigid grid system.
Every element of the 3-building complex—
every column, light fixture, bench, door and paver—
lines up on the grid.
From the center of the plaza,
you could spend hours finding all the places where the architectural elements align perfectly.
In fact, we dare you to find one spot where they don’t.
Mies’ meticulous design illustrates another of his famous maxims, “God is in the details.”
Despite this rigidity, the Federal Center’s design produces what architecture critic Franz Schulze calls, “a monumental urban presence.”
Eliminating the usual pomp and circumstance of civic buildings, the Federal Center has become a beacon of the International Style and a Chicago icon."
Reloading!
Did this to demonstrate the movement of the controls. The hammer, trigger, safety, and slide lock all function. I think the slide locks a bit too far back, but it's not a big enough deal to bother fixing.
These venerable and ubiquitous Grumman Long Life Vehicles (LLV) were made from 1987 to 1994 per the entry in Wikipedia. The article says that the US Postal Service has about 140,000 of them in their fleet. I understand that they will be replaced in the very near future.
Despite the tremendous increase in electronic communication and correspondence, I still eagerly await the arrival of our mail carrier. When I see a postal vehicle like this in our neighborhood, I look to see the familiar faces of our carriers and wave as they pass by.
Shorewood Branch of the USPS. Shorewood Branch of the USPS. The group I'm in has set Rule of Thirds for this week, so that's what I'm playing with today.
A Westcoaster Mail Master for sale at $5,000. A type previously unknown to me, I had to find out more. Wikipedia was my source, which details how as many as 17,000 of these mail scooters were once used by the US Postal Service. From the late 1960s, the type was replaced by more robust vehicles, notably specially adapted Jeeps.
USPS 2016 Ram ProMaster 2500 High Roof seen in the South Lake Union area of Seattle
VIN: 3C6TRVCG0GE109172
119-123 Upper Spon Street was built by St Marys Priory as six cottages over some existing structures. Surviving the Dissolution they passed eventually into the Mercers Company - a trade guild - then into private hands by the 16th century. Rows of small terraces where built behind 119 & 120, accessed through innocuous doors (1st and 3rd from the left) they make quite a startling sight being wee streets in their own right. Most of the people worked as Silk Weavers and when that trade declined they worked in watchmaking, then as that went into decline, cycles, before the great factories took over as the main employers. Much altered and still in use up until the early 1980's by which time they lay semi derelict till a Trust was set up in 1993 to restore them this being completed in 2007.
Listed Grade II.