while i was out n' about today, i tried to take a photo matching one from 1964 https://mastodon.social/media/QBNmfYbNI8zJ5CJMxsw https://mastodon.social/media/JJ-0VOC4CRFt6RXnX_o
Trees becoming part of urban design. @jk
@katebowles based on the size of the trees, I think they became part of urban design only a couple of years after the first picture!
That's the interesting thing. Trees take their time. But the reverse is true: removed trees make a really sudden difference. @jk
@katebowles this has happened a lot around here, mainly due to dutch elm disease :(
This huge tree is the centre of my small community. When the new community library was built next to it, it started to die. There has been great anxiety since because it would be such a trauma to lose it, but there's also obvious risk if it drops branches. @jk https://mastodon.social/media/p4QtbdHSEpzZJxcHU-c
@katebowles :( :(
@jk I love stuff like this. Crazy how they changed the whole direction of the street.
did another one of these today (198X - 2017) https://mastodon.social/media/Ck6DSL82A4DFnEz_yrQ https://mastodon.social/media/5ReHICsGfpuUhQSLbNA
@jk Cool!!
@jk what city is this?
@jk it looks nice, love your pictures!
@jk at least "burger king" rhymes with "cinescene" ... that's all i've got. nice work tho!
@myrrh whats interesting is that when they converted that small cinema to a burger king, they left the movie screen in the back part of the restaurant, so for a while at least (maybe up until about 1999), i think you could watch SOMETHING projected on it (maybe not whole movies, but TV? MTV??) while you ate your fast food! They used to have kids birthday parties etc. in there. even now you can still see the part of the restaurant where it used to be
@jk i love this story so much. i live on america's west coast, where there's a culture of erasing and rebuilding rather than integrating the history of places; it's so weird and ugly to me. i love when places - even corporations - acknowledge the relationship of past and place. so fascinating.
@myrrh yeah! I went in there today actually, unfortunately all that's left is "oddly shaped large part of the room" and all that remains of the cine-screen is a TV hanging on the (now refitted) back wall :(
https://mastodon.social/media/fbTyNol654lvcvwWSFM
@myrrh somehow I managed to find the ONE picture on the internet from before they changed it, and also the exterior of the restaurant when it was painted in more "movie themed" livery!
https://mastodon.social/media/Jn-CGbq0dT5bz4VV4zI
https://mastodon.social/media/Hgfn3knbImJj_tK01SU
@jk 1964 isn't even a real year, you big faker