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12:00am - 5:00am
Zzzz
5:00am - 5:30am
Up. Took care of the 3 s.' I headed to woik via 169.
5:30am - 6:00am
I loaded van 2.
6:00am - 7:15am
Dave and I went live from 12th and Jefferson -- scene of a homicide.
7:15am - 9:30am
We went to the Spinach Festival in Lenexa
9:30am - 10:50am
We went homo and Suyen fixed us brekkus.
10:50am - 12:30pm
We found we left the phone in the van. Paul tried to call us 5 times. I got no pages. Paul was pissed. We went to KCK to shoot the Police recruitment effort there in Argentine.
12:30pm - 3:00pm
Dave logged and wrote. I batched and edited in Avid 2.
3:00pm - 6:00pm
I headed homo. We et and relaxed.
6:00pm - 9:00pm
We went to Nebraska Furriture Mart and looked at the fire sales. Then we went to the JC Penny outlet. Suyen bought a chair and ottoman to have in the bedroom so she could woik on her puter when she is on call.
9:00pm - 10:30pm
We went to YJ's. We walked Tima around the crossroads. We had fried Tilapia and Kawfee and Chi at YJ's.
10:30pm - 11:59pm
We headed homo. Beddie
Sunday September 9, 2007
12:00am - 4:55am
zzzz
6:15am
checked out and loaded van 2. I got gas and low carb bars at QT.
6:40am
Sat and waited for Lori out by the back door.
7:09am - 8:25am
We went to our live at KrispyKreme on 103rd and Metcalf -- cops on donuts -- a fundraiser for the special olympics.
8:25am - 9:00am
We headed to the Corporate Woods 5k run for life event. Got vo. Then we headed hbo.
9:00am - 10:00am
I unloaded and put van 2 up. I went to Poco's and had the poke chops with salsa and eggs.
10:00am - 11:00am
I was sent to 123rd and Parallel on a fatlax. I didn't find it. It was cleaned up by the time I got there.
I headed to Excelsior Springs on a flag ceremony. I got a vo/sot.
Day Map, Sunday 9 September 2007
I ended up traveling a lot of mileage on vo patrol.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
I unloaded. Headed homo.
2:00pm
homo. Suyen fixed roast poke and veggies --- mmmm.
4:20pm - 6:00pm
choich
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Dawg Park
Tima found a little friend who would play with her at the dawg park.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1XoAAorDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEoWV9yAlx8
8:00 pm
YJ's Snack Cafe, 18th and Wyandotte, Kansas City Missouri. I talked to Micah. I mentioned a jazz documentary involving Dave.
I talked to Megan on the phone.
10:00pm
Headed homo via 169
10:30pm
Got set up in the Oraface. I dubbed my TJITD-V clips I edited to mini DV tape and DVD
Monday September 10, 2007
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12:00am - 2:00am
Woiked on the puter dubbing videos and editing my blog
2:00am - 12:00pm
Zzzzz
12:00pm - 2:30pm
I got up. I weed eated. I et salad. I shook a tower. I dressed. I headed out to woik via 169.
2:30pm - 6:30pm
I went with Dave to an area north of Lawson, Missouri. We were looking for friends of Dan Porter. They weren't there. We went to Excelsior Springs, and found the friend there and talked to him. We came back HBO.
6:30pm - 8:15pm
Dave quickly logged and wrote something. I batched some stuff in Avid 2 and edited there.
We drove out to Sugar Creek where Barry was waiting with the live van. We did our live at 21:00 & 22:00.
Monday 10 September 2007 20:58:48
Dave getting ready for his liveshot on the remains found, which may be the missing Porter kids, in Sugar Creek, Missouri on Kentucky road.
10:30pm - 11:30pm
I unloaded and was heading home. I heard on the scanner that a woman was being robbed on Emmanuel Cleaver by guys fitting the description of the Plaza robbers. So I went to check it out. Came up empty but there was a lot of activity on emanuel cleaver. I headed homo after that.
11:30pm
Homo. I et hot wings that Suyen made and canelope. Watched the boob tube.
Tuesday September 11, 2007
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12:00am - 12:30am
watched "King of the Hill"
12:30am - 1:30am
Woiked on the puter
1:30am - 11:15am
Zzzz
11:15am - 11:40am
Up, shook a tower
11:40am
Fixed a poke chop and canalope.
12:00pm - 1:20pm
Watched the noose on the boob tube. I et my canelope and poke shop. I blogged.
Tuesday September 11, 2007 13:47:18
This googie sign is at 17th and Wyandotte, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Tuesday 11 September 2007 13:48:41
6 years ago, I was living in the west bottoms and really didn't have a chance to come anywhere near this place. It is a blessing that we are still able to enjoy our freedom and our days and that we can remember. Despite how we feel about current events, we should always remember the sacrifice which makes it possible for us to enjoy our blessings daily.
THERE'S A HOLE IN THE SKYLINE
THERE'S A HOLE IN OUR HEARTS
SOMETHING MISSING THAT CAN NEVER
QUITE BE FILLED
SOMETHING PRECIOUS GONE FROM OUR SIGHT
BUT NOT OUR MINDS
MEMORY WILL KEEP ALIVE
THAT WHICH WE CAN NEVER TOUCH AGAIN
THERE IS A CAVITY
ON THE FACE OF OUR COMMUNITY
CRAFTSMEN AND ARTISANS WILL FILL THAT HOLE
WITH SOMETHING NEW
HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE
THROUGH OUR GRIEF AND LOSS
THE REMINDER WILL ALWAYS BE THERE
THE PAIN WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US
BUT THIS COMMUNITY WILL
SMILE AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLt9kOtx4WA
2:30pm - 3:15pm
I headed to woik. I'm with Nancy. I talked to Fritz. My days off are 30 and 31 of October and 1 and 2 of January.
3:15pm - 5:30pm
Nancy and I went to shoot our piece at Truman HS.
5:30pm
Back at woik. I et my low-carb thickburger I got at Hardons. I batched in Jons bay.
7:00pm
I edited in Jon's bay. I struggled with some of the settings. I had to dub it and take it to bay 2 for the graphics.
I went to YJ's.
Tuesday 11 September 2007 21:40:01
I came here after I was done editing for Nancy to have some Chi tea and some german chocolate cake.
10:15pm - 10:30pm
I headed back to the station to put my battery on the charger.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
I headed homo via 169
11:00pm
Homo. I et beef and cabbage that Suyen made. I watched the boob tube.
Thursday 13 September 2007
2:00am
Boob tube -- watching "King of the Hill"
1:00am - 6:30am
Zzzz
6:30am - 8:00am
Up, showered, dressed. Suyen drove us in the superbooboo to MTN. She checked in. We then went to Town Topic on Baltimore after getting money from Communist Bunk on Rainbow.
9:00am - 10:00am
I dropped Suyen off at MTN. I went to the crossroads with Tima. I walked around and shot some train, I headed back to YJ's and shot some stills.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:19
I noticed this building on about 20th and Broadway. There is an older building in the back that was added onto, maybe sometime in the early 20th century. The part in the back looks to be an older style, like maybe even mid 19th century.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:32
The back part looks to be an old apartment building, or a hotel maybe, or even a storefront with living space upstairs, which was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:42
You can see in the closer detailed shot of this where the two structures are joined -- older in the back and newer in the front. I didn't mean to bring attention to someones desecration.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:32:11
Of course, since I was here, I had to get another shot of a Kansas City classic.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:32:35
Walking North on Broadway, next to Town Topic exists this mid century office. I can't recall what it was before it was a real estate office, then, as it is now, an empty building for sale. I just noticed the old googie sign on the top, which has been painted over. I wonder if someone out there has old pictures of what existed here before. I just love the windows in the front, and of course, the sign.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:33:02
I wonder, if in one of those old photos, -- maybe an architecture shot, or an office shot for the walls, or maybe even someones snapshot of employees on a smokebreak complete with brand new 50's cars and a brand new office building, that someone holds a unknown treasured window on a past that then seemed mundane, but now is anthropological gold.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:39:09
Speaking of gold, do you see those stars in the sidewalk? They are Kansaas Citians who maded it in Hollywood. I know one of them is Walt Disney. I think one is Robert Altman. This is west 18th street, about a block east of Broadway. This is called film row. It was once a major distribution point for film materials bound for movie theaters all over the US. All the buildings in this area are Art Deco (1920's to 1940's). They don't look like much now, but if you get close to them, you can see hints of their past, as well as the stars in front of this building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:40:13
Thursday 13 September 2007 11:35:35
Gamay Nga Timaan sitting under the shade tree out by the Goodyear shop on 7 highway in Blue Springs. I was here to get the superbooboo inspected and to see about the brakes. They said the brakes have about 25,000 miles left, and unless the squeaking really bothers us, we should just turn up the radio and ignore it. They have a little bench under the shade tree out front, so when I bring Tima, we sit outside and wait. One of the employees here really loves dogs and gives Tima a treat when we come in.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:02:41
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Moonliner
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:03:05
This is a great Kansas City landmark, and I beleive it is googie too. It advertises a company that really doesn't exist anymore, at least by this name. The building under it too is a great landmark because of it's eclectic architecture and because of it's one rounded side. It is now loft apartments.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Auto
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:03:39
This is the view of downtown from 18th and Baltimore. The city is doing a lot of work on the south part of downtown blocking off many streets including this one. So these days thre aren't many cars crossing in the crossroads.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:06:34
There have been various other improvements to the old TWA building besides the rennovation of the building. There are sculptures around the grounds, a new parking garage, a soup restuarant and a coffee/magazine bar. Tima's butt is poor photography, not a statement of opinion on the sculpture.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:08:08
I believe this is a new sushi bar/Japanese restaurant.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:08:49
This is classic googie, and by the looks of the rust on the bottom of the sign, it is real and not post-modern. I don't think this was originally placed at this ediface, but rather restored (somewhat) and moved here.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:09:01
A googie sign on a classical storefront. You can see from this view that the sign is not new, but is restored. I'm not sure if it was originally placed here, or was restored and moved here. It is a neat sign, but I'm not sure about the clashing of styles here. Is googie a form of classicism gone extreme, or is it a form of romanticism gone nuts? One could argue both ways. I think maybe it is more a clash of time periods than of styles. That is the thing that made googie, though an optimistic style, to be identified so often with deterioration, and seedyness. Many times a brand new googie sign was purchased to dress up a sagging decaying facade to make it look new and modern. When the googie style fell out of fashion, than it did little to help the prospects of the facade that it was made to make look better. Eventually, I believe that made it more kitchy, which I think is the intention here.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:11:25
I think this is a more honest form of googie. This sign was placed here, probably in the early or mid sixties, and if it was changed at all, it was changed (most probably) in the signage -- which I think is plastic. It is a tamer form of googie -- more functional than decorative -- but the arrow is designed to be seen from the road, which is the googie in it really. Otherwise it would be a hum drum sign. The googie era lasted roughly from 1949 to 1967. Ha, the way I shog ghd picture, it looks like the arrow is pointing at the older (art deco) ppower and light building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:11:53
It looks to me like some restoration work is going on in the downtown area, as well as the new construction.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:13:05
This is a googie sign atop a googie building that now houses a store called retro inferno, which sells mid-century modern furnishings and fixtures. That would also include googie. Again, I'd love to see old photos of this sign and building. I don't think the Canon signage is orignal. Maybe sometime soon there will be a retro inferno sign.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:14:18
With everything in the crossroads going crazy these days, a building like this isn't cheap, and I think that yes, it's for sale. I hope someone who buys it can appreciate the style and incorporate whatever plan they have for this space with what exists. I might changed the upstairs windows though -- it looks as if in a darker time they may have been bricked in a bit. I could be wrong about that, but expansive glass would really add to the style tremendously. I see some deco influence here. Maybe the facade was updated in the googie era.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:25:10
www.imagesartgallery.org/
My mission today was to explore art galleries. Seeing interesting architecture along the wasy was a side benefit. I stopped in here, Images Art Gallery, and found a few original paintings that I think we could afford and a lot of prints that I liked that I know we could afford. The lack off traffic from downtown is really hurting business around here, and I don't mean for just art galleries. Let's hope it is all worth it when the new Sprint arena and Power and Light district open up. These developements, along with the crossroads, could finally reverse 60 years of decline in the center city.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:31:48
I'm sorry, I didn't look to see what street this alley was close to, but, you see those tracks there? They run down to the tracks by Union Station. I think they were last used to run raw paper up to the Kansas City Star. However, think about it, string some catenery up there and run a trolley up and down it, at least for a demo museum line. Now, the benefit would be that Kansas Citians might awaken to the beauty and functionality of light rail. If you want to see what this may look like, go here.......
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tIa_cBJPb4
If you are patient, and watch the video all the way through, you will see a Kansas City car.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:31:59
Here is the view of the tracks and alley towards the south end. Now, I know installing a trolley here would not have much purpose other than being a museum line, but I think the visibility would demonstrate the usefulness and purpose of such a system in our city. It is my opinion that if Kansas City does not get some sort of light rail/commuter rail in the next 10 years, the city will begin an irreversable decline, and it won't matter how many lofts, new office buildings, art districts, arenas or whatever you build. Transportation problems are choking a lot of American cities to death. Kansas City in the 50's and 60's fully bought into the automobile dream, that is starting to turn into a nightmare. The Kansas City metro area is one of the most sprawling in the nation. Without a multi-faceted approach to transportation including light rail and commuter rail, Kansas City will die.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:29
I don't just love googie signs. These old faded signs on the sides of buildings are interesting historical artifacts as well. My old high school art teacher, Dana Forrester, who usually makes an appearance at the Plaza Fart Air, found these signs fascinating too....
www.texasescapes.com/Signs/The-Art-of-Dana-Forrester.htm
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:45
Sometimes, if you look, you see hints of what the city was like at the dawning of the automobile age.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:57
It looks as if this sign was truncated to make way for a lightpole.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:36:58
I believe at one time, this area of the city had a lot of car dealers. You can see that in the old faded signage that refuses to completely fade away.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:37:09
You cannot buy a new Oldsmobile any more, but you can still see this sign advertising the make as if it were still 1937
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:37:18
Sorry so fuzzy. Some of these neighborhoods still have a rough edge to them, which makes for photographers having to not fully concentrate on their photography. I think this sign is newer than the other signs, but definitely newer than the googie signs. This is probably 40's or 50's era.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:39:35
Busy Bee ain't so busy anymore. Whenever I see this place, I think about the working class nature of this neighborhood. This is a victorian functional building, dating back to the late 1800's. I'm sure at one time it had a grand iron facade. The facade it has now probably looked new and modern in the 1950's, but it is incongrouis with the rest of the facade. Like the googie attached to other old facades, it did little to help keep the building up with the times and in many ways made it look cheap. However, with the passage of time, even this takes on a charm, and you might find some takers in an effort to restore even the Busy Bee. It has a down and out workaday honesty in a neighborhood that is increasingly evolving into a faux post modern retro revision of it's former self. Many years of decline have left this cafe empty. Stretch has his business and restaurant next door, and this end of the crossroads is becomming a little theater district -- theater as in off-broadway.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:39:47
Even with all the development in the crossroads, there is still not enough traffic to keep this business unshuttered. Maybe that will change. I don't know when the Busy Bee stopped being so busy, maybe somebody -- even perhaps the owner does. I can see the beam has some new paint on it. That may be a part of the orignal iron facade which is common on victorian functional buildings. This new paint is a good sign that at least the owner is stabilizing the building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:50:48
Speaking of Stretch, here is some of his art, across the street from the Busy Bee.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:19
I noticed this building on about 20th and Broadway. There is an older building in the back that was added onto, maybe sometime in the early 20th century. The part in the back looks to be an older style, like maybe even mid 19th century.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:32
The back part looks to be an old apartment building, or a hotel maybe, or even a storefront with living space upstairs, which was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:31:42
You can see in the closer detailed shot of this where the two structures are joined -- older in the back and newer in the front. I didn't mean to bring attention to someones desecration.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:32:11
Of course, since I was here, I had to get another shot of a Kansas City classic.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:32:35
Walking North on Broadway, next to Town Topic exists this mid century office. I can't recall what it was before it was a real estate office, then, as it is now, an empty building for sale. I just noticed the old googie sign on the top, which has been painted over. I wonder if someone out there has old pictures of what existed here before. I just love the windows in the front, and of course, the sign.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:33:02
I wonder, if in one of those old photos, -- maybe an architecture shot, or an office shot for the walls, or maybe even someones snapshot of employees on a smokebreak complete with brand new 50's cars and a brand new office building, that someone holds a unknown treasured window on a past that then seemed mundane, but now is anthropological gold.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:39:09
Speaking of gold, do you see those stars in the sidewalk? They are Kansaas Citians who maded it in Hollywood. I know one of them is Walt Disney. I think one is Robert Altman. This is west 18th street, about a block east of Broadway. This is called film row. It was once a major distribution point for film materials bound for movie theaters all over the US. All the buildings in this area are Art Deco (1920's to 1940's). They don't look like much now, but if you get close to them, you can see hints of their past, as well as the stars in front of this building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 10:40:13
Thursday 13 September 2007 11:35:35
Gamay Nga Timaan sitting under the shade tree out by the Goodyear shop on 7 highway in Blue Springs. I was here to get the superbooboo inspected and to see about the brakes. They said the brakes have about 25,000 miles left, and unless the squeaking really bothers us, we should just turn up the radio and ignore it. They have a little bench under the shade tree out front, so when I bring Tima, we sit outside and wait. One of the employees here really loves dogs and gives Tima a treat when we come in.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:02:41
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Moonliner
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:03:05
This is a great Kansas City landmark, and I beleive it is googie too. It advertises a company that really doesn't exist anymore, at least by this name. The building under it too is a great landmark because of it's eclectic architecture and because of it's one rounded side. It is now loft apartments.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Auto
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:03:39
This is the view of downtown from 18th and Baltimore. The city is doing a lot of work on the south part of downtown blocking off many streets including this one. So these days thre aren't many cars crossing in the crossroads.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:06:34
There have been various other improvements to the old TWA building besides the rennovation of the building. There are sculptures around the grounds, a new parking garage, a soup restuarant and a coffee/magazine bar. Tima's butt is poor photography, not a statement of opinion on the sculpture.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:08:08
I believe this is a new sushi bar/Japanese restaurant.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:08:49
This is classic googie, and by the looks of the rust on the bottom of the sign, it is real and not post-modern. I don't think this was originally placed at this ediface, but rather restored (somewhat) and moved here.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:09:01
A googie sign on a classical storefront. You can see from this view that the sign is not new, but is restored. I'm not sure if it was originally placed here, or was restored and moved here. It is a neat sign, but I'm not sure about the clashing of styles here. Is googie a form of classicism gone extreme, or is it a form of romanticism gone nuts? One could argue both ways. I think maybe it is more a clash of time periods than of styles. That is the thing that made googie, though an optimistic style, to be identified so often with deterioration, and seedyness. Many times a brand new googie sign was purchased to dress up a sagging decaying facade to make it look new and modern. When the googie style fell out of fashion, than it did little to help the prospects of the facade that it was made to make look better. Eventually, I believe that made it more kitchy, which I think is the intention here.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:11:25
I think this is a more honest form of googie. This sign was placed here, probably in the early or mid sixties, and if it was changed at all, it was changed (most probably) in the signage -- which I think is plastic. It is a tamer form of googie -- more functional than decorative -- but the arrow is designed to be seen from the road, which is the googie in it really. Otherwise it would be a hum drum sign. The googie era lasted roughly from 1949 to 1967. Ha, the way I shog ghd picture, it looks like the arrow is pointing at the older (art deco) ppower and light building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:11:53
It looks to me like some restoration work is going on in the downtown area, as well as the new construction.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:13:05
This is a googie sign atop a googie building that now houses a store called retro inferno, which sells mid-century modern furnishings and fixtures. That would also include googie. Again, I'd love to see old photos of this sign and building. I don't think the Canon signage is orignal. Maybe sometime soon there will be a retro inferno sign.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:14:18
With everything in the crossroads going crazy these days, a building like this isn't cheap, and I think that yes, it's for sale. I hope someone who buys it can appreciate the style and incorporate whatever plan they have for this space with what exists. I might changed the upstairs windows though -- it looks as if in a darker time they may have been bricked in a bit. I could be wrong about that, but expansive glass would really add to the style tremendously. I see some deco influence here. Maybe the facade was updated in the googie era.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:25:10
www.imagesartgallery.org/
My mission today was to explore art galleries. Seeing interesting architecture along the wasy was a side benefit. I stopped in here, Images Art Gallery, and found a few original paintings that I think we could afford and a lot of prints that I liked that I know we could afford. The lack off traffic from downtown is really hurting business around here, and I don't mean for just art galleries. Let's hope it is all worth it when the new Sprint arena and Power and Light district open up. These developements, along with the crossroads, could finally reverse 60 years of decline in the center city.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:31:48
I'm sorry, I didn't look to see what street this alley was close to, but, you see those tracks there? They run down to the tracks by Union Station. I think they were last used to run raw paper up to the Kansas City Star. However, think about it, string some catenery up there and run a trolley up and down it, at least for a demo museum line. Now, the benefit would be that Kansas Citians might awaken to the beauty and functionality of light rail. If you want to see what this may look like, go here.......
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tIa_cBJPb4
If you are patient, and watch the video all the way through, you will see a Kansas City car.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:31:59
Here is the view of the tracks and alley towards the south end. Now, I know installing a trolley here would not have much purpose other than being a museum line, but I think the visibility would demonstrate the usefulness and purpose of such a system in our city. It is my opinion that if Kansas City does not get some sort of light rail/commuter rail in the next 10 years, the city will begin an irreversable decline, and it won't matter how many lofts, new office buildings, art districts, arenas or whatever you build. Transportation problems are choking a lot of American cities to death. Kansas City in the 50's and 60's fully bought into the automobile dream, that is starting to turn into a nightmare. The Kansas City metro area is one of the most sprawling in the nation. Without a multi-faceted approach to transportation including light rail and commuter rail, Kansas City will die.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:29
I don't just love googie signs. These old faded signs on the sides of buildings are interesting historical artifacts as well. My old high school art teacher, Dana Forrester, who usually makes an appearance at the Plaza Fart Air, found these signs fascinating too....
www.texasescapes.com/Signs/The-Art-of-Dana-Forrester.htm
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:45
Sometimes, if you look, you see hints of what the city was like at the dawning of the automobile age.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:34:57
It looks as if this sign was truncated to make way for a lightpole.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:36:58
I believe at one time, this area of the city had a lot of car dealers. You can see that in the old faded signage that refuses to completely fade away.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:37:09
You cannot buy a new Oldsmobile any more, but you can still see this sign advertising the make as if it were still 1937
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:37:18
Sorry so fuzzy. Some of these neighborhoods still have a rough edge to them, which makes for photographers having to not fully concentrate on their photography. I think this sign is newer than the other signs, but definitely newer than the googie signs. This is probably 40's or 50's era.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:39:35
Busy Bee ain't so busy anymore. Whenever I see this place, I think about the working class nature of this neighborhood. This is a victorian functional building, dating back to the late 1800's. I'm sure at one time it had a grand iron facade. The facade it has now probably looked new and modern in the 1950's, but it is incongrouis with the rest of the facade. Like the googie attached to other old facades, it did little to help keep the building up with the times and in many ways made it look cheap. However, with the passage of time, even this takes on a charm, and you might find some takers in an effort to restore even the Busy Bee. It has a down and out workaday honesty in a neighborhood that is increasingly evolving into a faux post modern retro revision of it's former self. Many years of decline have left this cafe empty. Stretch has his business and restaurant next door, and this end of the crossroads is becomming a little theater district -- theater as in off-broadway.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:39:47
Even with all the development in the crossroads, there is still not enough traffic to keep this business unshuttered. Maybe that will change. I don't know when the Busy Bee stopped being so busy, maybe somebody -- even perhaps the owner does. I can see the beam has some new paint on it. That may be a part of the orignal iron facade which is common on victorian functional buildings. This new paint is a good sign that at least the owner is stabilizing the building.
Thursday 13 September 2007 14:50:48
Speaking of Stretch, here is some of his art, across the street from the Busy Bee.
10:49am - 2:00pm
Tima and I went to Blue Springs to have the Super boo boo inspected at good year. We had the brakes checked on -- 25,000 miles left on them. We then drove to Liberty to have it licensed. I then headed back to the Crossroads to look at art.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
I went to YJ's. I had a soy iced latte. Tima had meatloaf.
4:00pm - 7:00pm
I got Suyen at MTN. We et at Taquiria Mexico number one. We then went homo.
7:00pm
We hung out. I worked on the pix I took today. hh
Suyen and I went to YJ's to enjoy the weather. We saw Roy there.
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It is supposed to get cool tonight (40's) so we partook in the last bit of nice weather at YJ's.
11:30pm
We headed homo. We watched "King of the Hill."
Friday 14 September 2007
12:00am - 2:30am
I woiked on the puter on the r-cal and blog
2:30am - 10:30am
Zzzz
10:30am
Up. Checked the nets
11:30am
11:30pm
I just got this from somebody who watched some of my videos....
From: andrewlove1971 [videos (22) | favorites (25) | friends (1)] Sent: September 14, 2007 Subject: your train videos inspired me... Message: although the main subject I blog about, and shoot videos of, is the world of elite level speedskating- your train videos have inspired me andrewlove.org/blog/?p=483 this one brought my dad to tears (as its kind of a letter to him) but I thought I would just send this to you, and let you know your work has impact... Here's the link to his blog....
WOW! I'm speechless.
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12:00pm
Had to run around looking for Tima who slipped out of her collar.
1:00pm
Suyen and I went and had lunch and "sandito's" at Souperman on Baltimore in the old TWA buildings new parking garage.
2:00pm - 4:00pm
I went to Grandview to Show Me Lines to buy Trains. I talked politics with Charlie and the other guys there.
4:30pm
YJ's
8:00pm
The Peanut on Broadway. We got spicy wangs.
9:00pm - 11:59pm
Homo. We watched the boob tube and et wangs.
TMI
Stevo
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