Tag: shopping
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Further adventures in home film developing: documenting a day of errands
I took a 1914 box Brownie along on a gloomy day of errands. Here are the places I visited.
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I love the Michigan Road, but I don’t always like living near it
I love the historic Michigan Road. But I also live near it, on Indianapolis’s Northwestside, and it’s not always a picnic.
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single frame: A seat in the sun
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Arnott’s of DublinNikon N2000, 35mm f/2.8 AI NikkorKodak T-Max 4002016 We strolled through the shopping district in Dublin at the end of our trip to Ireland. Arnott’s is a department store.
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Pleasant suburban shopping on the Agfa Clack and Ilford Pan F Plus
Please don’t revoke my man card, but I like to shop. Even a weekly trip to the grocery store delivers a dopamine rush. And when my weekly trip takes me to the big-box store — ohhh yes, I can spend an hour just wandering the aisles looking at things I didn’t come to buy. The big-box groceries are…
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Remembering South Bend’s River Bend Plaza
Last month my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. My brother, my sons, and I drove to South Bend, our hometown, to celebrate. We chose downtown as our destination, where we enjoyed a first-rate dinner at a fine restaurant. Then we drove a few blocks west to take photographs on the steps of the church…
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Captured: Foodliner
I remember a time, during my 1970s kidhood, when the IGA Foodliner was the official grocery store of the rural Midwest. Even through the 1980s, if you drove out of the city and into the cornfields, when you came upon a small town you’d almost certainly find a Foodliner. In the intervening years many rural…