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.
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@mwichary big fan of "elmo laundry" tho
beautiful pictures as usual🤩
veader@mwichary The second picture of the alley way and shadows... lovely. Especially that doorway/overhang which causes the break in the shadow (lower left)
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?”
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