retro – Page 6 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Vinyl DOORS Playing on Record Player

Jim Morrison and the Doors recorde on a turntable. — Panza Gallery- the night of the Big Love show.

I wanted to post this picture and you may remember the floor from another post of the portrait class that meets on Monday nights. Panza Gallery (in Millvale) had a cool show called Big Love, no artwork was priced over $100. i saw the record player spnning and I had to photograph it. Fun night.

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Laura said on Saturday night she wanted a record player.

I’ve been told that CD’s are going to be obsolete-

soon it’ll be all digital files, nothing to handle.

No vinyl in a cardboard sleeve. Cool graphics.

A paper insert with a center hole.

The act of placing it onto the spindle.

Ease it down onto the turntable.

Lift the arm and place the needle at the beginning.

Wait a few revolutions for the music to begin.

March 16, 2011May 24, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Music, PhotographyTags: music, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, record player, retro, the Doors 6 Comments

What You Should Never Eat- But Tastes Great!

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Hungry

Sometimes you are hungry
for something that is just not good for you.
And you eat it.

And regret doing so.

Or not!

Wednesday nights I take a class at Manchester Craftsmen’s and eat an early dinner on the South Side, driving down the slopes from Arlington. The last two weeks it was Carson Street Deli sandwiches but then I started thinking French fries. Undoing all the work at the gym yesterday.

So I crossed at 16th St and went into Mario’s, the only patron at that off hour but not for long. Cory was hosting and tending bar and took my order for an Alpine burger (don’t ask) and their house cut fries. A tall ginger ale. I asked if I could photograph the stained glass windows. Designed by Williams Stained Glass of Bethel Park. It was a good time to photograph the architectural details. Woshner’s was once “haberdashery” and is now Mario’s. I was too early for Karaoke night. Had to get to class.

February 17, 2011May 24, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Cooking and Eating, Light in the City, Pittsburgh PhotosTags: architcture, Carson Street, city scene, Duquesne University, Mario's, neighborhood, Penn State, photoblog, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers, postaday2011, retro, sidewalk, south side, University of Pittsburgh, urban scene, Williams Stained Glass, Woshner's 8 Comments

Button, Button, Whose Got the Button? ( & Bridal Veils, too!)

1700 Carson Street is the home of a great button store. It fascinates me- Parker Button. Boxes and boxes stacked from floor to ceiling. All colors, shapes and sizes. Like an artist’s palette. Shank or flat. Frogs and belt buckles. Ribbon and trim. Spools of thread to sew them all on for utility or ornamentation. My mother had a glass jar full of buttons. My sister made me the coolest necklace from vintage mother-of-pearl shirt buttons, strung onto embroidery floss. Do you have any clothing missing a button?

The other half of the shop is Clarissa’s Boutique . One word to describe the bridal veils, jewelry and accessories for custom headpieces and wedding necessities- exquisite? lovely? classic? ethereal? They will create a custom headpiece for you but allow three months. Feathers, flowers, jewels, or pearls. Voted the Best of the Knot for weddings 2011.

These Days Buttons are Often a Part of Web Design

Or people push our buttons.
Press the button to call the elevator
or select your floor.
Today’s post is the old fashioned kind.
Two-hole, four-hole or shank.
Metal, plastic, shell or bone.
Beatrix Potter shapes of rabbits.
When was the last time you sewed on a button?

Today marks 500 blog posts and counting!

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Growing up we had a record with the song ( these lyrics are from 1929)

Button up your overcoat, When the wind is free, Oh, take good care of yourself, You belong to me! Eat an apple every day, Get to bed by three, Oh, take good care of yourself, You belong to me! Be careful crossing streets, ooh-ooh, Cut out sweets, ooh-ooh, Lay off meat, ooh-ooh, You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!

February 10, 2011June 1, 2011 by Ruth Categories: Light in the City, Pittsburgh Photos, vintageTags: belt buckles, bridal veils, bride, button, button collecting, buttons, Carson Street, city scene, Clarissa's Boutique, frogs, jewlery, memories, notions, Parker Button, photo of the day, photoblog, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Photographer, Pittsburgh Weddings, postaday2011, retro, sewing, south side, The Knot, thread, urban scene, vintage, vintage buttons, wedding accessories 14 Comments

Filmstrip Projector Paired with a Record, I Can Hear the Sound to Advance the Frame

School. Ditto machines and drinking in the smell of the purple sheets and filmstrip projectors. Who remembers?

February 3, 2011February 2, 2011 by Ruth Categories: ChildhoodTags: childhood, education, filmstrip projector, instruction, memories, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday2011, record, retro, school, teacher, technology 17 Comments

Loading the 1950 BelAir, Rock Island, Illinois

Driving around with my sister, we were looking for the Historic District and saw this scene. BTW I am in Columbus OH not Illinois this weekend. One friend wrote and thought I was on a cross country trip and had stopped working. The men were loading the 1950 BelAir behind the pick-up.

October 16, 2010October 15, 2010 by Ruth Categories: photo of the dayTags: 1950, BelAir, chevy, classic car, HIghland Park, Il, Illinois, October Weekend, photo blog, photo of the day, photography, retro, Rock Island, vintage, vintage car 3 Comments

Laundromat on Bryant Street

Laundry. It piles up no matter what else is going on in life. One week, years ago, I wrote a tally mark every time I did a load. Total 14. Grateful for washer and dryer at home.

June 10, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Light in the City, photo of the day, Pittsburgh Photos, PlacesTags: city scene, HIghland Park, laundromat, Laundry, neighborhood, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, retro, urban scene 2 Comments

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Harris Theater Downtown

Saturday night and the neon lights glow. We’re waiting for Steve to get the car in the parking garage. No tripod but a slim tree trunk, the cable remote. Evokes another era. I realize I’ve photographed at least 3 other vintage movie theaters. Pittsburgh Filmmakers screens the Film Festival here and at Regent Square and Melwood. Another restored theater in Wisconsin(click to see)

May 10, 2010May 10, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Night Light in the City, photo of the day, PlacesTags: cinema, cultural district, Harris Theater, Historic District, movie theater, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, preservation, retro, vintage 4 Comments

Model Railroad Mother Hangs Out Wash

Somedays it’s fun to play. The era is supposed to be c.1936. My mother pinned clothes on a merry-go-round contraption with a center metal pole, stuck in a concrete surrounded hole. The needs-to-be-oiled sounds of a pulley as the clothesline is reeled out with colors, shapes and flags. Whipping around in the breeze, drying in the sun. The smell of a pillowcase on a clean bedsheet that earlier flapped on the line. I bought these at the Hobby Shop. Read about HO scale .

Model Railroad Mother Hangs out the Wash — Just reading about HO scale on WikiPedia. Miniatures appeal to me.

May 4, 2010May 5, 2010 by Ruth Categories: photo of the day, ThingsTags: childhood, clothesline, HO Scale, hobby shop, Laundry, memories, miniatures, model railroad, Model Railroad People, neighborhood, nostalgia, photo of the day, retro, vintage, washday 8 Comments

Front Porch Still-Life at Dusk

Old seltzer bottles, a birdcage, the texture of the wicker, some stained glass at dusk. J’s front porch with the sun sinking behind. Condensation inside the old glass, the metal tops. Artists usually arrange inanimate objects to create a still-life to paint or draw. This was already there, waiting. But then it is an artist’s house.

Still Life, a grouping of inanimate objects arranged in a pleasing composition — Setting sun through old turquoise and plain glass seltzer bottles

March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Things, vintageTags: Aspinwall, available light, farmhouse, front porch, glass bottles, photo of the day, photography, Pittsburgh, retro, seltzer, still life, sunset, vintage, winter scene 8 Comments

Twisters Ice Cream at Night in the City

Coming off the Bloomfield Bridge I took a left to avoid the potholes and discovered Twisters Ice Cream. The dangling cones? Whoa. Drove around the block. Haven’t sampled their advertised soft or hard ice cream click on their name for a link to a map and review.

Twisters Ice Cream on Main Street — No parking on Main Street in Bloomfield, so shot from the driver's seat

March 4, 2010 by Ruth Categories: Night Light in the City, Places, vintageTags: available light, Bloomfield, childhood, city scene, ice cream, Main Street, memories, neighborhood, night, photography, Pittsburgh, retro, snow, soft serve, urban scene, vintage, winter scene 9 Comments

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Vinyl DOORS Playing on Record Player

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Button, Button, Whose Got the Button? ( & Bridal Veils, too!)

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Filmstrip Projector Paired with a Record, I Can Hear the Sound to Advance the Frame

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Loading the 1950 BelAir, Rock Island, Illinois

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Laundromat on Bryant Street

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