Realizing that I have not mentioned the streetcars in Portland, I attempted to photograph a couple today, while driving. By this blank page, you may surmise I was not successful. What I wanted you to see is how “Vienna”, old-world-movie these ‘people movers’ make the city streets look. The streetcars, hooked together, glide on their …
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An Expert
Am becoming one about the weather. Schools were still closed here today, and nothing much in the way of snow, disappeared over night, so decided that around 1 pm would start the digging out process. I actually like shoveling snow. Hate vacuuming, but snow shoveling is satisfying because you can see what you have accomplished. …
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Fire Escapes
As you walk around the City, especially away from Mid-town look up and see the Fire Escapes on many of the buildings. It was a guest from Europe who suggested the buildings would be more attractive without this lattice work distorting the front architecture. Although fire insurance apparently originated in the city of Philadelphia, followed …
A Jewish Christmas
That’s what they call it in New York, when you go the movies on Christmas Day and have Chinese food afterwards. The shops and the most of the restaurants were closed [the 25th]. The streets devoid of traffic; surprisingly so. No one was on the buses either. It was a mostly shut down city, except …