Incredible run of photos, showing Randolph St (Millennium Station) in early 1977, by Lou Gerard.
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apparently Google's malware detection has gone rampant and instantly zapped numerous Blogger/Blogspot-based blogs with no warning today, many years running with thousands of posts. And of course, users hit brick walls asking the (also automated) appeals system for review.
the battery on my phone isn’t holding a charge very well anymore so i’ll probably need to get a new phone soon. i’ll keep you all posted on the timetable. while i’m not an expert on spiritual matters, my best guess is that you’ll all be reincarnated
A palace. A mystery. A riddle. The Uptown, Chicago's largest, most magnificent movie venue, has been boarded up for almost half a century. I got inside, took a lot of pictures, and tell the story, also with a lot of pictures, at the link. arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/08/aura...
Auras and Materialities: Chicago's Uptown Theatre, where a legendary past confronts an uncertain future.
It would have been better had I been alone, running through the great castle-like lobby like Belle through the Beast's haunted corridors in...
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"think vultures, not eagles" is key. If you're enough of a nerd to have read a history book about a specific interurban, you'll know they almost universally were dead by the 30s, and if not, it was only because wartime fuel rationing limped them through the war years.
Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d agoAll of this is to say, GM was picking the bones of the dying streetcar companies. Think vultures, not eagles. And when we talk about the GM conspiracy charges... GM-affiliated National City Lines actually kept streetcars running longer than peer systems. 10/
Rather astonishing to see such long-form journalism from a TV station, but CBS Chicago's Adam Harrington has a remarkable history of the rise and fall of Clybourn as a retail corridor, and of a 1915 factory's short life as the 1800 Clybourn mall. bit.ly/4hdfzCJ
Basically ferrying this from Facebook. Carlos Fuentes Elementary is doing some spring cleaning with a pretty heavy hand. Unfortunately it seems the rain has gotten to what's here, but some others have also been scavenging storage bins and other undamaged items.
I miss my old jobs. I miss the loose attendance policy and loose phone use policy of my 2nd job. I miss the corporate cafeteria of my first job. A shame they were in Florida and evil. (Defense contractor/defense subcontractor)
I've said again and again on this account that I am, in fact, a huge defender of the ugly, bizarre, and generally "different" looking car and virtually every time I say that, I am thinking of the Plymouth Prowler. I love that cars like this exist and hate they will never be made again.
Nick Roman@theromannick.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's one of the most divisive production cars ever made, but did the 2001 Plymouth Prowler deserve all the commotion? New RCR is now live! youtu.be/Je2YkB_AySM?...
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
secret structures on top of the mountain 🎞️: Kodak TMAX400 (expired)
an artfully decorated former payphone booth, at Metra's Beverly Hills - 95th St station.
Pokey@junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 2w agoA concrete "swill" (ash or garbage) box in the alley behind Estes, between Francisco & California. Produced by the "Standard Elsmere Granite Co 1752-58 N Spaulding" (a CHA property now stands at that site). Ad from June 1947 Yellow Pages, courtesy Library of Congress.
Flashback to that time I went to a car meetup and someone set up a skeleton like this
The lost hotels of Atlantic City never cease to blow my mind. These incredible, giant buildings, that no one seems to talk about; both seen here were torn down in the 1970s. The Blenheim (left) is now a Bally's Casino; the Traymore (right) is a parking lot.
old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 2y agomarlborough-blenheim-claridge hotels, atlantic city, new jersey, 1985
coming home from the movies on Friday I discovered the lights at the local abandoned dentists office are mysteriously on now.
Hammond's All Saints Church (1930?), in yesterday's horrible weather.
We have got to change the way we build and live in the West, or we are doomed to forever repeat this cycle of loss and destruction and sorrow.
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Someone just tried to “well akshually the teen takeovers cause property damage” this, as if Lolla attendees simply float above the grass
are you not infotained@alopex-ii.bsky.social · 4d agoMaybe if the local teen takeovers wore less clothes the Trib’s exalted perverts would be willing to make an exception
need a big machine that runs a roller over me and cracks every joint in my body icluding ones i didnt know i had
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
addendum: you wanna know what the last thing I did before starting this journey was? I watched The Odyssey. Beware that if you give it only four out of five stars Poseidon may smite you too.
Pokey@junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 4d agoat a certain point we were just power-walking through puddles because we were already soaked anyways. my friend detoured us down into a park to cross a "pedestrian bridge" that ended up being an abandoned railroad bridge he'd foolishly assumed had been repurposed. Did I mention how soaked I was.