© Frank H. Jump
Photography
Just In: From Kisken the Finn – Finnish Round Barn in Montana – Kiitos to Kisken!
© Bob Kisken
This is a barn built by Finns in Rerd Lodge, Montana. It was a dairy. The woman who owns it now, Kerrie Rochon, is not a Finn. She [Rochon] has done a great job of restoring it. It is a bar and gambling house. I have met lots of neat people who are restoring Finn buildings and keeping our heritage alive. Both Finns and non-Finns are doing this. I wish some American Finn group or Finnish government group would recognize their efforts and give them a “kiitos plaque.” cheers bob kisken.
Kiitos Kisken!
A Series of Vertically Oriented Cylindrical Objects – Happy Earth Day!
© Frank H. Jump
Happy Earth Day!
Vincenzo (my partner in life and love) has the tendency to uncover interesting ephemera while doing demolition on the apartments he renovates. Here are two bits dating back to the early 1960’s- Rubin’s Delicatessen with the GRamercy-3 telephone exchange (Gramercy Park got its name from a corruption of the Dutch “krom mesje” or crooked little knife) and the Schaefer Beer Can, which brings back fond memories of the 1969 World Series and my father watching television. I remember watching the men landing on the Moon and wondering how they had already gotten there to set up cameras.
My first Earth Day – which was THE FIRST EARTH DAY – was in April 1970. I had done a report in fifth grade about the Food of the Future: Soy. I predicted that soy burgers would one day become popular with the American public. I also predicted that the United States would be slow to convert to metric – which was supposed to occur that year. If only my prescience could have extended to future Lotto Numbers…
Read more about Campbell’s Soup’s attempt to be green.
“For here am I floating ’round my tin-can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”
David Bowie – Space Oddity
Another Holy Roller Going Up Interstate 84 Outside Matamoras PA
© Frank H. Jump
Yada, yada, yada.
Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mi-kol ha-leilot?
Why is this night different from all other nights?
Passing moments as these under an ample dusk moon
And under other holy rollers.
Flatbush House Fire on Glenwood Road Has Local Raccoon Up a Tree – Friday, April 18, 2008
© Frank H. Jump
As I was driving home for lunch on Friday, I arrived at the end of the block just as the firetrucks had arrived on the corner of Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street. There was a distressed raccoon on the roof of the house trying to find a way off. I ran home and got my camera and ran back down to the corner. Deborah Brathwait, a resident of the building was visibly shaken, but fortunately managed to get out safely. Brathwait informed me that all other residents managed to evacuate unharmed. By now the raccoon was in the tree, which also was at risk of going in flames. A local organization, Silver Lining Outreach – that apparently helps local fire victims and the homeless, gave me their card. I’m not familiar with this org but will do some research.
Arnold Duncan, another local photographer was at the scene and we started to chat a bit. [Duncan forwarded me his link to his pics. I posted two down below with links.] According to Duncan – a longtime College Glen resident – the corner house that had burned had once belonged to the adjacent church – The Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church – which has been trying to get the former parsonage back.
Fire on Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street, Flatbush Junction
© Frank H. Jump
Some shots from another neighborhood photographer, Arnold Duncan.
© Arnold Duncan
Click here for a slideshow of Duncan’s pics of the fire.
Kudos to Ladder 147, The Pride of Flatbush! For their impeccable response time and professionalism- and for putting up with questions like “Did you see where the raccoon went?”
