Niagara Falls, Ontario
Back in our hotel in Niagara Falls the next day, we looked down on this odd, fake minaret-ty thing and the fountains and garden below
Hilton Akhbar?
Architecture
Better Homes and Gardens
Even tthe stately homes…
…bear another focus
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Out Front
Lincoln Tunnel ramp, New Jersey
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Moonscape
Lincoln Tunnel ramp, New Jersey
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Landscape for Future Earth
NJ Turnpike, New Jersey
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Great Lawn
Great Lawn, Central Park, New York
The Great Lawn, featuring the hideous new stalagmites corrupting the view of Central Park South.
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A View for the Birds
Evanston, Illinois
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Oh, What a Lovely Wall
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program…
If you’ve been following, we’ve been featuring the Kodachrome slides my father shot in England and Germany in the mid-’50s, starting with this post. We’ll take a short break from those for now and turn back to my street photography here in dear, dirty New York.
This wall, which I’ve photographed several times before, is a lovely creamy white, especially against a cloudless deep blue sky, as here. Unfortunately it’s grown more difficult as the building next to it on the corner has pulled down their always-locked, “public” garden (don’t get me started) and spent the last year and a half jack-hammering it into a monstrosity of modernist retail space with the gardens on top, mind you, so as to be available only to their residents. Such are the ills of capitalism.
W 92nd Street, New York
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Rathaus
One of our final stops in Germany, Bamberg’s old Town Hall (Rathaus), I’m pretty sure. This is from the collection of Kodachrome slides my father shot in 1955-56 that I’ve been scanning and posting about for the last few weeks
Bamberg, Germany
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die Kirchen
Some more pictures of the Bamberg area taken in 1955-56 on Kodachrome slide film by my father.
According to Wikipedia, “Bamberg extends over seven hills, each crowned by a beautiful church. This has led to Bamberg being called the “Franconian Rome” — although a running joke among Bamberg’s tour guides is to refer to Rome instead as the “Italian Bamberg”. The hills are Cathedral Hill, Michaelsberg, Kaulberg/Obere Pfarre, Stefansberg, Jakobsberg, Altenburger Hill and Abtsberg.” I’m not sure which of these are pictured below, or even if these are all churches and not some of the many Schlösser my mother told me about but couldn’t identify.
You can see the original post describing this slide-scanning project here.
Bamberg Cathedral?, Bavaria, Germany
Bamberg, Germany
