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Showing posts with label Howard Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Street. Show all posts
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Omen of Christmas Future, OR?
Today is, as all my sources revealed, the tenth of April, 2010.
This is the facade of the Gateway Centre at Howard and Hermitage in Rogers Park.
The mall is also one of Ald. Joe Moore's "jewels of the 49th ward" .
Jewel, schmewel, I say!
They have not removed the Christmas wreath, YET, and those little lights have been burning since mid-December!
OR...perhaps they are keeping it up to demonstrate how next Christmas will be celebrated?
Click on pix to enlarge
Major Rule #1: The evergreen does not remain green when it is cut down or cut and fashioned into decorations!
Major Rule #2: Paint will not stick to concrete unless it is the proper paint for concrete, and has been properly applied during proper drying/curing weather!
What with all the empty storefronts in the Gateway Centre, wouldn't you agree the place is pretty much "Moore's FOLLY" ?
This is the facade of the Gateway Centre at Howard and Hermitage in Rogers Park.
The mall is also one of Ald. Joe Moore's "jewels of the 49th ward" .
Jewel, schmewel, I say!
They have not removed the Christmas wreath, YET, and those little lights have been burning since mid-December!
OR...perhaps they are keeping it up to demonstrate how next Christmas will be celebrated?
Click on pix to enlargeMajor Rule #1: The evergreen does not remain green when it is cut down or cut and fashioned into decorations!
Major Rule #2: Paint will not stick to concrete unless it is the proper paint for concrete, and has been properly applied during proper drying/curing weather!
What with all the empty storefronts in the Gateway Centre, wouldn't you agree the place is pretty much "Moore's FOLLY" ?
Monday, March 8, 2010
I wonder who approved this...
...THING...supposedly a piece of "sculpture" which now hangs in the atrium of the Howard Street Red Line station?
It hangs as roughly two-thirds of a circle, and serves only to confuse the eye with its overabundance of reflections.
It kind of reminds me of the shiny things (aluminum pie plates, and small pieces of mirror) we used to use to scare birds away from our truck garden back in the 70s!
Perhaps it's meant to do just that--SCARE people away from Howard Street!
Overdone and 'Machine-ish'! Kind of like Ald. Joe Moore!
And certainly much too costly for the Howard SSA 19!
It hangs as roughly two-thirds of a circle, and serves only to confuse the eye with its overabundance of reflections.
It kind of reminds me of the shiny things (aluminum pie plates, and small pieces of mirror) we used to use to scare birds away from our truck garden back in the 70s!
Perhaps it's meant to do just that--SCARE people away from Howard Street!
Overdone and 'Machine-ish'! Kind of like Ald. Joe Moore!And certainly much too costly for the Howard SSA 19!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
More Lost Grandeur of Rogers Park
Norshore Theater Auditorium
Looking east on Howard Street from Clark Street, 1955What was once a source of entertainment for residents of Rogers Park is now part of the parking lot of the heavily-unoccupied Gateway Centre, a project heavily-backed by Ald. Joe Moore.
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