Marcin WicharyChicago in Chicago
Reunited with my fav Chicago bridge! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinzie_Street_railroad_bridge
The typography on the vintage Quincy loop elevated station, restored to resemble its former 19th-century glory.
Contrast with the more modern equivalent and (I think) still the house style of Chicago’s Transit Authority.
Alright, so this was a lot more fun than I expected. (Even though the weather is bad.)
I think that stack must have been shortened; the name of the street is Belmont.
Brilliantcrank@mwichary I love that they still do this.
SamuelJohnson@mwichary crazy and... surely a bit early
How it all began (for Joe Biden's ancestor and many others)
Joël Franušić@mwichary if you haven’t seen The Fugitive (1993) recently, I highly recommend it as it’s set in Chicago and has a scene with the green river!
mwichary (@[email protected])
@[email protected] “If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?”
Technology Connections@mwichary ahh! I'm so glad you're there to see this ridiculous thing we do 😄
@TechConnectify “If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?”
Sara Joy 
This greening of that water plus a reddening of water in Utrecht were close to each other on my timeline just now:
https://mastodon.lol/@CriticalCupcake/110011784718328189
Critical Cupcake (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.
Frank@mwichary It's almost unfair how photogenic that city is. Love it!
Gareth Potter@mwichary What is it with American public transport and Helvetica. There are other typefaces!
@garethpotter Isn’t it the same with Europe and Frutiger? 🤣
@mwichary Not to quite the same extent, but yes, I suppose so.
Nicole Aptekar@mwichary wow these are amazing. I love the idea of modern transit stations occasionally having a station using such a vintage style like this!
Mark Eichin@mwichary The pointing finger and the larger type size of OUT really makes it feel like the station is banishing you 🙂
Anders Conbere@mwichary I appreciate these photo collections you’ve been doing
Eric Sinclair@mwichary The condo building behind the Roscoe Village overpass is/was called The Pencil Factory, and there was a water tower atop it which had a nice mural of sharpened pencils as if in a cup. I'll have to look on my next L ride downtown to see if it's still there....
Kuba Baran@mwichary what camera do you use?
@kubabaran iPhone 14 Pro for these
Christopher Phin@mwichary Always great to be present at the birth of a new Kickstarter project. 😇
mORAsome ideas for what will come after Shift Happens:
- sounds (https://www.conservethesound.de)
- badges (https://chromeography.com/)
🤣
₣ЯеD@mwichary I use to have records. I hear they're making a comeback.
Practise@mwichary Something I always admired (and planned to make a photographic series of but never managed to find the time to do) is the Eiffellian structural frames that hold up all these signs (that I love the signs themselves goes without saying!). Like that Cole’s frame.
You'll see a lot of them remaining around Chicago as vestigial metal sculptures with the actual signs they were built to hold now long gone.
phil baker@mwichary Someone call Mike Wolfe at American Pickers!
Stuart Marks@mwichary Wow, Admiral radio/TV/appliances. That’s an old brand I haven’t seen in a long time.
Zachary Wild@mwichary ugh that Alt text. Axelrod Music
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Bob Schulties@mwichary The pizza sign! 😍
Madopal
Starsiak: A Chicago Font — The Chicago Neighborhoods
Font #1 Starsiak, an Art Deco display font, was inspired by the Starsiak Clothing signage that was uncovered near the intersection of Division and Milwaukee. The font features 91 different glyphs, including 12 alternate letters, numbers 0–9, and a whole bunch of common punctuation. The purchase
@mwichary The whole font series he did is brilliant.
John Parker@mwichary I always love how otherworldly images from other countries or indeed cities can sometimes feel - thank you for these little glimpses.
gosha@mwichary having spent god knows how many hours in Flight Simulator as a kid, I’ll recognise the Sears Tower anywhere, despite never having been to Chicago (except virtually, taking off from Meigs Field)
Anne Petersen@mwichary I ❤️ this series.
Cabel Sasser@heyitsbob @mwichary Absolutely loving all of this
@mwichary Loving all of these and missing Chicago a lot. Particularly that Hancock Center & Water Tower Place shot, with the ramp up to the Hancock car park. The John Hancock Center is my favourite skyscraper in Chicago. Sometimes if I needed to park downtown, I’d deliberately choose JHC for parking, just for the crazy reason that I could drive up inside and around my favourite building. It seemed a particularly American situation.
benjamin shaykin@practise we got engaged in front of the john hancock center
@mwichary have you explored Chicago’s underground city / Pedway yet? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171128-chicagos-underground-city-thats-becoming-a-design-star
