Pokey
@junkyardcrawler
architecture, dead mall, train, car enthusiast Chicago-based takes too many photos non-binary Blog: Website: RIP COHOST - EGGBUG FOREVER - KEEP EM POSTING IN OUR HEARTS
new "Jersey style" slice pizza joint in Bucktown, right under the L tracks at Western, in the old Oromo Cafe space. Incredibly solid very thin crust slice, will return. Dangerous addition to a corner of my commute that already includes Red Hot Ranch.
it is an inanimate object you made sandwiches with maybe a dozen times. you have a frying pan to make good grilled cheeses in now. stop it. do not take it out of the free box you put it in. do not.
sometimes I am a little salty I bought the most boring colorway of a Pontiac Vibe (mine is silver on silver)
highly specific niche complaint no.5090349 have vinyl chip bags always been this obvious in marketing shots or did we lose the people who knew how to do them well?
Winnetka and Glencoe are some of the wealthiest communities in the entire station of Illinois, and this is the condition of their doorstep?
the state to which Metra and Union Pacific have allowed the Hubbard Woods UP-N station to deteriorate is genuinely deplorable, there is not one part of it that is not damaged and falling apart in some way, bordering on a public health hazard.
Update: I did it, I got in. Grabbed a few books. Was it worth it? Eh. Picture for attention and because I kept teeter tottering about this bike. It's like a $750 bike brand new and it was two hundred something dollars after discount. I let it pass me by.
you might enjoy the Pierce Arrow Museum in Buffalo, which built this insane never-built Frank Lloyd Wright gas station as a center piece some years back
here was the crowd shortly after I'd arrived around 10:15. I stood around and chatted until about 11:30. Dipped and went to a library book sale someone told me about, circled back at around 1:00, an hour before close, and there was still a small crowd milling around. Yeesh.
they're inventing vintage stores you can't even conceive of in Wicker Park
Id love to do some postcards or contribute to a zine or something! Estate sales are too ephemeral to really recommend like that but they can produce some fun scenes. I'm woe to mention the bird site but this account posts great ones occasionally.
ugh I think the sign photos I took today all came out just soft enough to be annoying. I wish I'd lucked into a camera body with image stabilization
beer/thc ads increasingly feel like interdimensional cable bits most of the time
demolitions are such fun photography material, even when I think they're a bit of a waste. Former Roomplace/Carsons, Lincolnwood Town Center, Lincolnwood, IL
Cute! their design kinda reminds me of a toy robot I had as a kid, especially the tail.
A concrete "swill" (ash or garbage) box in the alley behind Estes, between Francisco & California. Produced by the "Standard Elsmere Granite Co 1752-58 N Spaulding" (a CHA property now stands at that site). Ad from June 1947 Yellow Pages, courtesy Library of Congress.
GOING, GOING, GONE Id long noticed this "ugly building" at Armitage/California due to its odd 2nd floor, suggesting it'd been cut down and had large windows bricked up. I noticed this canopy go up & the interior being gutting on Thursday; it's gone today.
like yeah sure I'd sell my soul and become an unethical plastic surgeon or some shit to have this view everyday, why not.