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Post by Freda on Oct 12, 2010 15:06:13 GMT -5
Here are a few photos I took last weekend.  The diner is in Hubbard Ohio  My Mom used to buy groceries here about 55 years ago. Dorset Ohio  A painting on the side of a feed store in Hubbard Ohio.  Train at the depot in Hubbard Ohio. |
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Post by photax on Oct 12, 2010 22:40:18 GMT -5
Hi Freda ! Very nice pictures ! I like them  Is this a railway-car on your first picture ? The steam train looks like a model railway  Which camera do you use ? MIK |
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 12, 2010 23:06:59 GMT -5
Randy
It's a good thing you popped it back to the top or I would have missed it too. You got to love that shot of the classic dinner, I do. Seems Freda and the Kodak get along well together.
I often miss new posts as my habit is to look at the front/main page for new posts.
Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 13, 2010 0:21:44 GMT -5
Freda,
Your Kodak seems to be able to take splendid pictures of good things from the past.
Thanks.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Oct 13, 2010 0:58:37 GMT -5
It's no good trying to post in the dark. I just about had my entry done and then caught the wrong key and deleted it. This is now a cut-down version.
I love photos like these: photos of ordinary things.
The diner has that classic form. Do you have "listed buildings" in the USA, i.e. buildings that have to be preserved?
The shop: a simple affair - a shop that is now closed. But why has it closed? Has it been killed off by a local supermarket, or is it just that the owners have died and there is no one else in the family to take it on?
The train, as MIK says, looks like a model. Either that or it is how you would expect a child to draw it. Painting on buildings or pavements is an art form that the photograph can preserve for us.
Freda, thanks, love them.
Dave.
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Post by Doug T. on Oct 13, 2010 9:25:49 GMT -5
Hi Freda! We have one of those diners in nearby town, I still go there for "Diner food" on occasion. Believe it or not, there's a Red & White store nearby that is still in business. They're about as rare as hens teeth these days. Nice photos Doug |
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Post by Randy on Oct 13, 2010 10:14:38 GMT -5
The Red & White store is in a little town that has been more or less abandoned. The railroad tracks were torn up over 30 years ago, and there is an abandoned feed mill across the street. When the owner of the store died it closed.
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Post by Randy on Oct 13, 2010 13:20:06 GMT -5
Hi Freda ! Very nice pictures ! I like them Is this a railway-car on your first picture ? The steam train looks like a model railway Which camera do you use ? MIK MIK, it's a Kodak Easyshare CX7530. |
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Oct 13, 2010 14:28:12 GMT -5
These photos interest me so much, they remind me to take architecture photos here. I'll be cheeky and answer Mik's question from a world away from North America. The Emerald Diner is a "classic", prefabricated, custom made, 1939 O'Mahony diner built on the form of a streetcar/tram (it even has a faux headlight on each end!) Although many many diners did comprise converted trolley cars/streetcars in their construction (I had the good fortune to eat in the excellent "Ruth's Diner" in Emigration Canyon, Utah, which was and still is centred on a converted Salt Lake City trolley car), mobile lunch carts were another obvious influence on form. To paraphrase one author, while good money could be made by operating a lunch cart/diner, better money could be made by building and selling the diners themselves. Although I learned about diners from American movies and the excellent book The American Diner by Michael Karl Witzel, there is, of course, plenty of info on the web for diner geeks (close relatives of camera geeks). There is a blog full of fascinating info about diners and it has an old O'Mahony catalogue printed for our pleasure, though from an earlier era than the Emerald: dinerman.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/jerry-omahony-dining-cars/To me, the stainless steel diner symbolises the wealth and glamour of America during that era. Even a humble lunch cart could become something beautiful. Here in NZ, our "Milk Bars" and "Burger Bars", which fulfilled the same function were much more prosaic. |
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Post by daveh on Oct 13, 2010 17:14:21 GMT -5
MIke, Post PhD there seems to be no stopping you! I have had a quick glance at your Diner link - good stuff. There is too much good stuff around and too little time to take it all in. Dave. |
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Is this a railway-car on your first picture ? The steam train looks like a model railway 
Which camera do you use ?
