January 3, 201411 yr The article being passed around on Facebook about the Antarctica photos was misleading. What appeared to be an innocent typo insinuated a much greater accomplishment in preservation than what actually took place. So...they just discovered these negatives, cleaned them, then scanned them, and the internet went wild. Honestly not that big of a deal...separating negatives stuck together just takes water and patience. What that article said was that unexposed negatives were found...now correctly developing 100 year-old negatives would be a much more impressive event. That would have involved cutting various test strips and experimenting with developers until getting it right. The problem with that is that several frames would inevitably be destroyed, and the correctly developed test strip might have been an improperly exposed frame. That means developing the rest with that formula, temp, and timing could render the entire rest of the role wildly over or under-developed. Scanning and photoshop can recover a lot, but it can't create information that just plain isn't there due to wildly improper development.
January 3, 201411 yr There was a hippie music club around Taft & Vine around 1970 called The Dome or Black Dome or something. A lot of touring acts played there before The Ludlow Garage came along. Dunno if it was in the building with the Jordan billboard or not. I went to several concerts at the Black Dome!!! I can't remember its exact location, but it was near the NE corner of Taft and Vine before University Plaza was built. During one intermission, it was so hot inside that some staffer came out and sprayed the crowd with a hose to cool us off! That may have been an MC5 concert. I also saw Alice Cooper there. Neither the Black Dome nor Ludlow Garage had seats -- we all just sat on the floor. There was another primitive and fleeting venue located downtown, maybe called The Renaissance, and all I can remember about its location is that it was somewhere between 4th and 5th Streets and Race and Plum. Sorry, but my memories of that period are a bit hazy IYKWIM, plus, so much has changed in the general area of the Convention Center since those days.
January 3, 201411 yr I want to say I saw an ad for a place called The Renaissance in a PDF of an old UC paper. When I was in HS in Spfld, some guys were talking about going to the Ludlow Garage to see the Dead but plans fell part. These were the kind that frequently would go to shows & never make it... I was living in Cincinnati for quite a few years before I noticed The Ludlow garage. :-)
January 13, 201411 yr Menu from a soda / sandwich shop in Springfield, Jim's. I think it closed about 35 years ago. It was on Limestone, S of the main block. what the heck is an egg phosphate? :-)
January 13, 201411 yr ^ Found the recipe here - The Practical Soda Fountain Guide By William S. Adkins, 1911 http://books.google.com/books?id=u3btAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=what+is+%22egg+phosphate%22&source=bl&ots=igI_NmITvW&sig=bNvCMkVgycht6F271iMggI19Ywo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zQjUUqKgAoOvsQTmqoDoCw&ved=0CG0Q6AEwCQ
January 14, 201411 yr ^ wow that is cool to see. "i'll have an egg phosphate and a chopped olive sandwich mister."
January 14, 201411 yr Every time I see an old menu I'm like, damn people used to eat like birds as compared to the gut-buster foods of today. That's one reason why you didn't see any fat people. I don't think you could eat enough egg salad, chopped olive and sliced chicken sandwiches to ever get fat. Seriously in the early '50s I bet people took in like 1300 calories a day and half of that was gin. You see film of men working manual labor all day then just eating a baloney sandwich with lettuce, a bit of mayo and some egg salad for lunch. Adds up to like 272 calories and you're like, how?
January 14, 201411 yr I had cherry & lime phosphates as a kid, this egg thing seems bizarre. I usually got a Green River & an egg salad sandwich. Prices were more like $1 or $1.25 for a sandwich I think. My mom & older sibs usually got the chopped olive sandwich. My mom used to cut up tomatoes & drizzle home made Italian dressing on 'em. Dunno if that's what the tomato salad in the menu was or not.
January 14, 201411 yr maple soda? necter soda? i am surprized the hipsters havent caught on to these menu items yet.
January 15, 201411 yr Menu from a soda / sandwich shop in Springfield, Jim's. I think it closed about 35 years ago. It was on Limestone, S of the main block. what the heck is an egg phosphate? :-) Good link to menus from back in the day, Cincy area restaurants. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=marionette+menu&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xmarionette+menu+cincinnati&_nkw=marionette+menu+cincinnati&_sacat=0
January 15, 201411 yr Nice Kyle. All those lima beans, corn, green beans, succotash, baked potatoes and carrots as sides instead of fries, Dumpster fries, mozzarella sticks, corn dog bites, and loaded potato wedges. And if you think we eat a lot of processed meats today, look at how much meat came served as pink circles, pink piles and tan logs back then.
January 17, 201411 yr Go on youtube and look at the food people take on month-long backpacking trips. They're burning 4,000 calories per day and eating a pack of Lipton pasta sides for dinner. Ooh, there was the time when I hiked 18 miles to a 14,000ft. peak in California, was the only one to make it to the top, got back hours after everyone else and the women had eaten all the food.
January 17, 201411 yr Ooh, there was the time when I hiked 18 miles to a 14,000ft. peak in California, was the only one to make it to the top, got back hours after everyone else and the women had eaten all the food. Women! You can't live with 'em. Amirite?? http://www.sadtrombone.com/classic
January 18, 201411 yr It may be a reach to put this in this thread but the previous content seems inclusive enough. Does 1985 qualify as historic? Maybe. Just not sure these photos are "historic". I would call them nostalgic. MODS: Feel free to move but I didn't want to start another thread needlessly. Anyway...these may be of interest to some for their curiosity. A printing factory in 1985. More here: http://particularlyeverything.com/2014/01/17/photos-workin-for-a-livin-in-1985/ Enjoy!
January 19, 201411 yr It may be a reach to put this in this thread but the previous content seems inclusive enough. Does 1985 qualify as historic? Maybe. Just not sure these photos are "historic". I would call them nostalgic. MODS: Feel free to move but I didn't want to start another thread needlessly. Anyway...these may be of interest to some for their curiosity. A printing factory in 1985. More here: http://particularlyeverything.com/2014/01/17/photos-workin-for-a-livin-in-1985/ Enjoy!
January 19, 201411 yr Ah back when the average man in their 20s still made a decent living. What was considered a "decent living" in the 1980s? I'm asking to better understand your response.
January 19, 201411 yr Enough to do the kind of stuff 20 something men liked then, such as buying muscle cars and racing motorcycles. Instead of just playing video games and streaming Netflix which is all most men in their 20s can afford to do today.
January 19, 201411 yr Printing was still heavily influenced by the unions then. Jobs were paying up to $25/hr with plenty of OT back then. You might make that nowadays, too - which isn't as good.
January 19, 201411 yr A buddy of mine worked at one in Kentucky and made like $18 I think. He just paid toward student loans with the extra cash. Oh and dirt bikes were $1700 then not $7200 like today, so they had to work like 80 hours to buy a bike rather than 400.
January 19, 201411 yr A buddy of mine worked at one in Kentucky and made like $18 I think. He just paid toward student loans with the extra cash. Oh and dirt bikes were $1700 then not $7200 like today, so they had to work like 80 hours to buy a bike rather than 400. The pictures are from a plant in Louisville.
January 19, 201411 yr My friend worked in NKY. I never asked him the name of the place. This was around 2008.
January 19, 201411 yr ^Was it a bag manufacturer? One of the world's largest is in NKY and manufactures/prints bags.
January 19, 201411 yr I was applying for a job at a printing company once & asked the receptionist what they did there - meaning boxes, catalogs, whatever... She told me it was a printing company.
January 20, 201411 yr I own a $600 print plate that's sitting in Dayton. I've never seen it and will probably never use it again.
January 20, 201411 yr ^Explain that. Auction? Souvenir? The catalog place may be RR Donnelly. The bag mfctr is Duro.
January 20, 201411 yr If the plate was made with films, you should own them, too. Who owns what & who is responsible for what & how long it should be stored has been a big issue in printing. It just got weirder when everything went digital. My oldest online post was on this subject. :-)
January 20, 201411 yr ^Explain that. Auction? Souvenir? I had 3000 custom boxes made for my business, but our address is probably going to change by the time they're all used up.
January 20, 201411 yr It may be a reach to put this in this thread but the previous content seems inclusive enough. Does 1985 qualify as historic? Maybe. Just not sure these photos are "historic". I would call them nostalgic. MODS: Feel free to move but I didn't want to start another thread needlessly. Anyway...these may be of interest to some for their curiosity. A printing factory in 1985. More here: http://particularlyeverything.com/2014/01/17/photos-workin-for-a-livin-in-1985/ Enjoy! Hipsters.
January 30, 201411 yr Queen and Crescent: Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway http://particularlyeverything.com/2014/01/29/queen-and-crescent-cincinnati-new-orleans-and-texas-pacific-railway/#more-321 http://particularlyeverything.com/2014/01/29/queen-and-crescent-cincinnati-new-orleans-and-texas-pacific-railway/#more-321
February 1, 201411 yr There's a FB group called Old Photos of Cincinnati & somebody was posting a bunch of street shots that all say Highway Engineering on them. Would this just be a municipal department or a state entity? I just think state when I think 'highway'. What I'm wondering is - would there be similar photos for othr Ohio cities like Dayton, Medina, etc.
February 1, 201411 yr There's a FB group called Old Photos of Cincinnati & somebody was posting a bunch of street shots that all say Highway Engineering on them. Would this just be a municipal department or a state entity? I just think state when I think 'highway'. What I'm wondering is - would there be similar photos for othr Ohio cities like Dayton, Medina, etc. I posted a link to these awhile ago on my blog, and was doing a "before and after" thing for awhile but haven't had time lately. I believe these were all taken by the City of Cincinnati. My blog: http://zfein.blogspot.com/2013/10/cincinnati-then-and-now.html The source (a bit cumbersome to search): http://drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/702780/browse?type=series
March 3, 201411 yr http://photosilke.blogspot.com/2013/03/historic-photos.html High resolution photos dating back to civil war times. Water and rail transportation features prominently
March 4, 201411 yr ^I really like the picture of South Ridgewood Avenue in Daytona. I looked at it on Google Maps, and it's now a bland six lane highway. Very sad.
March 4, 201411 yr I've got a question about people's eyes in pre-war photography. Lots of people (men especially) have these penetrating silver eyes. Was that a function of the cameras and/or the developing process, or were there a lot more steely-eyed people then as compared to now? I have met people with eyes that color in real life, but very few of them.
April 2, 201411 yr If we had to have suburban gas stations, why couldn't we keep the B-17's? http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html
April 16, 201411 yr chippewa lake park in 2009 from a dead blog: sad clown & the old gypsy lies dead on the floor nobody needs fortunes told anymore
July 14, 201410 yr Vintage Abandoned [Most and possibly all of these photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He was literally the first person to photograph the automobile landscape, ranging from the change in signage to be readable to passing cars, to junk yards, to the class gradations that particular types of cars represented. For example, it's difficult to know today, but the convertible these two are driving in was the very cheapest convertible that could be had at that time: http://25.media.tumblr.com/d00dad34ef2a5dfe2aa7bd4ca0e4a9c3/tumblr_mqv1g1GMcS1r5ywf1o1_1280.jpg Sort of like how poor or middle class people do things that imitate that possessions and customs of the wealthy, and of course in the US the wealthy were imitating the landed gentry of England and France. What's left of a nice gas station. That particular Fire Chief sign on the left pump and the Texaco Ethyl pump globe on the right are hard to find. Wish I had them...
March 18, 201510 yr Not a perfect fit for this thread, but I couldn't find a better place to post this. Check out this evolution of one block in Detroit's Corktown: The (Ongoing) Evolution of Michigan Avenue in Corktown, Detroit by metroblossom, on Flickr (Go to Flickr and view it full size... there's a lot of detail in there.)
March 19, 201510 yr Not a perfect fit for this thread, but I couldn't find a better place to post this. Check out this evolution of one block in Detroit's Corktown: Wow, thanks for posting that! I know that block, it's one of the few fully intact blocks in that neighborhood. I had no idea it had made so much progress though.
April 2, 201510 yr ^I don't see too much change from 09 to 15. Maybe 3 new businesses, a couple of paint jobs, and the removal of the billboard. A shot of basically any of the south of Liberty blocks in OTR would show much more dramatic change.
April 2, 201510 yr ^Wow that's a little harsh considering a city like Detroit is even making progress given it's situation. Sorry not every city is on the same level as Cincy.
April 2, 201510 yr ^I meant no offense to Detroit, I was just saying this photo set wasn't one of the more dramatic city block transformations I've seen recently. Though if this is indicative of the best redevelopment success story that Detroit has to offer, then they certainly have ways to go before any meaningful change is going to come to the city. Not every city is on the same level as Cincy, and Cincinnati is certainly not on the same level as a number of cities across the country. Nothing wrong with pointing this out, but again, the intent of my previous post was not to disparage Detroit.
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