Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
Thanks Bob, Dan, Christine, Bob W., Paul, and Frank! Paul, that's an amazing story about the corner of Halsted and Maxwell. Cheers, Christine On Aug 26, 2013, at 6:17 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Great stuff! The stockyard gate is wonderful. My other fave is the grain elevators. Reminds me of my youth. Montreal had huge ones down at the harbour. Most are gone now, I think one bank is left. The concrete was so thick they couldn't dynamite them! No longer an anachronistic eyesore, they are beautiful industrial design, harking back to a time when the North American bread basket fed the world (or so we were taught, seems that might have been an exaggeration. Wonderful pix! Cheers, frank Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
Finally, I got it! Thank you, Christine for the trigger... I often photographs street views without people and get criticized for the notion that without people it does not look right. Looking at your pictures I realized that in USA it is not uncommon to have a street with none of very little people walking, running, biking through... Here it is close to impossible. So I reckon, I do that instinctively - just trying to spot something that is out of the ordinary... Nice photographs! Boris On 8/26/2013 4:10 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Thanks for the tour! Seems you are finding your groove again... Yay! I am just back from Chicago ( other points Midwestern)... We dropped Nick off there on Friday. Maybe you passed him on your Sunday drive...! He did a 13+ mile run from Hyde Park that took him at least that far... When I saw the photo of the guy his dog out for a run, I was hopeful you had. But it's a big city, lotsa runners. :) I'll catch you next time, Christine! :) -c On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
I was particularly interested by the bull's head decoration on one of the buildings. I work just by Smithfield Market in London, which has been the main meat market here for hundreds of years. Nowadays it is a conservation area, although the market is still active, and most of the surrounding buildings are no longer involved in the meat trade. But the Rookery, a very lovely boutique hotel next door to my office, and a converted warehouse as far as I can tell, has some very similar cow heads adorning the walls. It is on Cowcross Street, one of the oldest streets in London, where cattle used to cross the Fleet River to get to the market. B -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Christine Nielsen Sent: 26 August 2013 21:38 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff Thanks for the tour! Seems you are finding your groove again... Yay! I am just back from Chicago ( other points Midwestern)... We dropped Nick off there on Friday. Maybe you passed him on your Sunday drive...! He did a 13+ mile run from Hyde Park that took him at least that far... When I saw the photo of the guy his dog out for a run, I was hopeful you had. But it's a big city, lotsa runners. :) I'll catch you next time, Christine! :) -c On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
Really enjoyed these. Excellent photo essay. I worked near the stockyards as a teenager -- in Speigel's warehouse -- and I can still recall the smell. The Maxwell and Halsted street corner is a hoot. Last time I was there -- about 40 years ago or so -- it was still all ramshackle booths with hucksters pushing their wares. It's a corner stuck in my memory, because I was on that very corner when I heard that JFK had been shot in Dallas. I was 15 years old and had been dismissed from school early because it was a teacher meeting day, so my pals and I took the bus down to Maxwell Street. Radios were broadcasting the news and we heard it as we got off the bus. Paul On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
Great stuff! The stockyard gate is wonderful. My other fave is the grain elevators. Reminds me of my youth. Montreal had huge ones down at the harbour. Most are gone now, I think one bank is left. The concrete was so thick they couldn't dynamite them! No longer an anachronistic eyesore, they are beautiful industrial design, harking back to a time when the North American bread basket fed the world (or so we were taught, seems that might have been an exaggeration. Wonderful pix! Cheers, frank Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PAW Stock Yards plus other stuff
Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Fun stuff Christine. I've never been down to the stockyards, but read about it in Sinclair Lewis's 'The Jungle'. It paints a grim, depressing picture. And wow, Halsted Maxwell is different. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I never saw a Stone Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one! fascinating image, Christine! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Hi Everyone: Here's the PAW for this week http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6792_large.html Darrel I drove to the site of the old Chicago Stock Yards, which is now an industrial park. But the old gate is a National Landmark. Here's a quick 10 shot gallery of the views entering the area. Check out the illustration of the famous hog wheel. http://www.caguila.com/stockyard/index.html Also, here are some quick shots made from the car--just street scene stuff. Paul Ann--check out what's on the corner of Halsted and Maxwell streets now! http://www.caguila.com/quickstreet/index.html Felt good to be out for a morning Sunday drive. We also drove through the Pilsen neighborhood and stopped in the Mexican Fine Arts Museum which was very nice. I made some quick street shots from the car, but we didn't get out and walk. We're planning to go back and walk around to get better shots. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
