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- Christine H.
- I love antique postcards because they preserve evidence of everyday life as well as celebrations and sad events. Looking at an old postcard is like holding a single piece of a puzzle; we have to imagine the rest. I will try to put up a postcard every day. If you have a special request for a particular city or place, let me know!
I love old train stations. Nice postcard.
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Great card and thanks for the modern comparison. They add so much to the post, turn it into something more than a frozen moment in time.
ReplyDelete"Community space . . . public space joining together diverse members of an urban population in a shared purpose . . . ." I had a university prof, an urban geography guy, who'd probably go on in that vein if shown these postcards. "Have we," he might add, "sacrificed community of transportation for autonomy of transportation, and at what price?" (The prof is real; I've made up the quotes to suggest his philosophical manner.)
ReplyDeleteThe station's design looks like something sort of southern German- or Swiss-influenced. Any real architects out there? Nice cards, Christine. Jack/Youngstown
Jack, this place is crawling with architects, some real, some not. Even this house is crawling with architect.
ReplyDeleteIt's true Jack, but I only crawl on special occasions, like when I drop something small that I don't just want to find later with the vacuum...
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I love seeing then and now comparisons!
ReplyDeleteWell, dang!:) I'm a non-architect, just a semi-retired tech writer and ad guy who used to drive his grade school teachers batty. Don't want to squat on anyone's pro turf, Christine. BTW--the cards didn't click for me until I thought of that long-ago prof, which is why I came up with those made-up quotations in his style of thought. Jack/Youngstown
ReplyDeleteJack - not to worry. I squat on their pro turf all the time.
ReplyDeleteI'm relieved, Christine!:) Anyway, these cards had us (at work) wondering about Youngstown, Ohio (max. pop. about 170,000) passenger rail service. Baltimore and Ohio (B & O), New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie-Lackawanna, and some sort of short-haul/interurban thing called Youngstown-Southern. Trolley service, which ended in the 1940s, was run by Youngstown Electric Railway or Youngstown Traction Co., or something similar. Jack/Youngstown
ReplyDeleteUnion Station in PDX is a fine place, inside and out. Especially in comparison to King Street Station in Seattle, which always seems to be in a slow renovation that never really goes anywhere. Plus, Union has a bar right next door, whereas in Seattle it is down the street!
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