1/30/08

Glazed white bricks are crumbling in TGS

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I've noticed many glazed white bricks are spalling in TGS. I haven't noticed this happening with the other color glazed bricks. Thi...
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ILLUSTRATED TRIANGLES

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Head Ear Foot pad
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1/29/08

COLONIZATION

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I'm rather proud that I was able to take this photo when doing 60 down 55. These are cedar trees and they are the first tree to colonize...
1/28/08

ARTS AND CRAFTS

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This is a view of the second floor of my two family building. I don't have this woodwork downstairs but I have quicker access to the bac...
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1/27/08

BLACK & PLUM BRICKS!

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Here's an astonishing find: black and plum color bricks on a side of a 50's building in TGS. I've named these skid mark bricks. ...
1/22/08

BLACK BRICK

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We must revisit these bricks which are of course my favorites! This is some seriously heady stuff. From a distance of twenty feet they look...

REDBRICK

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Perhaps this explains my fascination with face brick. Enclosed in an email from Pat Fish: From: Wordsmith Date: January 21, 2008 9:02:24 PM ...
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1/21/08

GARAGE ON OAK HILL CALLED BY BAD TIM

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Perplexed about the style of architecture with this garage, I emailed my crony Bad Tim the Architect with the query. Me: What the hell is th...
1/18/08

KNOCK, KNOCK!

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Who's there? DADDY! Daddy who? Leather queen. Huh? Land shark... Ack! Fake shutters.
1/13/08

TOP TEN BRICK PICKS OF 2007

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Accordion brick. Best of Show. Black pitted brick pix'd at dusk. 1st place. Bordered brick with pink mortar and tiny pebbles. Second pla...
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1/12/08

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE ONCOLOGIST'S OFFICE...

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So I found another lump earlier this week while bathing and doing the self test business. Hell fire , I thought, this better not be cancer a...
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1/7/08

CHRIS COMES TO VISIT

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Chris visits from the NW and brings Gerber daisies. We've all had definitive moments or events that have shaped our lives and made us wh...
1/6/08

THE S. S. ADMIRAL - MY BRIEF GIG

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Photo by Tom Kempland When I was in college, I briefly worked on the S.S. Admiral. I worked in a fairly large office that had a massive safe...
1/5/08

CARVED WOOD CAPITALS - 38 HUMPHREY

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Click to enlarge! These carved wood capitals make me shudder with appreciation. It's seriously almost too rich to behold in person (if y...
12/31/07

When good buildings go bad OR more hoosier contracting

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I experience both embarrassment and horror when I drive by this building on Roger Pl. Obviously two doors existed in the spaces the cinder b...
12/30/07

Photos of my old store RE:GENERATION

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I was going through some old files today and found these photos of my store. It was located at 3196 S. Grand next to the post office on Wyom...
12/23/07

Update on MARTI FRUMHOFF Memorial Garden in TGS

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The plans for Matri's memorial are moving along! Here's a link to the new plans provided by the City: http://fundraisers4marti.blogs...
12/22/07

THE STAY WARM DRIVE - MANN SCHOOL

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The Stay Warm Drive for the children of Mann School started a few years when I noticed children walking home from school on a cold day witho...