Apparently, it's more than just the one place. I wandered over to the grocery store near work, and as I wandered down to catch my streetcar, I discovered that the Hairspray movie crew has transformed a good part of the neighbourhood into the 1960s.
So what does that bit of street normally look like? Got any pics for comparison?
FWIW, the daggy bits of town here where I live have plenty of stretches of street that look rather like that. Not so much a timewarp as an absence of renovation. -)
Alas, no comparison pics. A lot of those storefronts are empty, and a number of others contain businesses for the local middle-eastern community. Hence the halal variety and the place up from it (labeled as a fish merchant) is a falafal place.
The bent tin facades on some of the buildings really fascinate me. The metal is all aged and weathered, and yet it wasn't there two weeks ago.
Up the street (you can't see it in any of the photos), there's an Esso station (Canadian division of Exxon). It has the typical flourescent-light-behind-plastic rain cover over the pumps, but that's been converted into a much more old-fashioned-looking material. Even the Esso logos have been converted into a 1960s font.
Hun, I want to reach out to you and just send you my concern about mercury. I know your religion is an important part of your spiritual life, but please be careful when you work with mercury, ok?
I was reading this story today, and I started thinking about you and your Vodun practices. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-09-01T143413Z_01_N31352155_RTRUKOC_0_US-MERCURY-RITUALS.xml&src=rss
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Date: 2006-09-02 01:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-02 02:35 am (UTC)FWIW, the daggy bits of town here where I live have plenty of stretches of street that look rather like that. Not so much a timewarp as an absence of renovation. -)
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:47 am (UTC)The bent tin facades on some of the buildings really fascinate me. The metal is all aged and weathered, and yet it wasn't there two weeks ago.
Up the street (you can't see it in any of the photos), there's an Esso station (Canadian division of Exxon). It has the typical flourescent-light-behind-plastic rain cover over the pumps, but that's been converted into a much more old-fashioned-looking material. Even the Esso logos have been converted into a 1960s font.
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Date: 2006-09-02 03:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-02 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-03 06:16 pm (UTC)I was reading this story today, and I started thinking about you and your Vodun practices.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-09-01T143413Z_01_N31352155_RTRUKOC_0_US-MERCURY-RITUALS.xml&src=rss
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