Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida - 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
Doesn’t look all that different, 54 years later.
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Coconuts at St Petersburg, Florida, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
When I got to St Pete in ‘95, the downtown area looked bombed out (hey, who remembers the neutron bomb? They still makin’ those?). It’s a little [...]
Rutlands and Kress - Central Ave St. Petersburg, Florida 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
Yes! This is the real thing! Genuine St Pete!
Okay, This and the few posts below are from the Flickr collection of Vieilles Annonces, whose collection I have tapped before. Her collection of beautiful vernacular photograpy from mid-century America and beyond is beautiful [...]
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Snell Island, St Petersburg, Florida in 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
Love me some sidewalk, don’t ask why. Really love these old Kodachrome colors.
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Snell Island St Petersburg, Florida 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
Vieilles Annonces is the Queen Of Flickr Vernacularity!
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Papaya grove in St Pete 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.
Vieilles Annonces comes through again!
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Yep, it’s all coming back to me now. I think I used to be some kind of teenaged stray, wandering the neighborhood and begging for food. Not that there wasn’t plenty at home, but that would have involved personal meal preparation, for which I was apparently too lazy.
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She’s still searching around for the perfect domain name, but Carrie is determined to establish an artist’s portrait network in her hometown.
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I did these little 18×24 paintings last week. I am trying to remember what I saw when I was a kid in the ‘burbs, with a lot of time and nothing to do. I am noticing that what I remember at this point is women my parents age who could potentially give me food. Maybe [...]
Well, one more, anyway. More to follow. I have more fun drawing these little pieces of fragmented memory from my distant youth than I do painting them, but painting them is pretty great, too. When I get enough of the images together, they will come together as a story or series of stories, and I [...]
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