A Pair Of Coupes
American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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Thanksgiving Dinner Served Here
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 32mm ISO 200 1/50 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
The Sycamore Inn, providing food and drink to travelers on old Route 66, since before there was a Route 66. This Rancho Cucamonga, California landmark first opened in 1848. On the menu for Thanksgiving 2012: A selection of 29 wines by the glass, a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings, or filet mignon, prime rib or salmon. Served in the main dining room at tables with white tablecloths and ancient wing backed chairs on casters, squint your eye and you might see an old sour dough miner celebrating a gold strike.
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 44mm ISO 200 1/320 f/8 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
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Chicken Savings Time
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 27mm ISO 200 1/15 f/16 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
When contemplating Americana, fried chicken, and especially Colonel Sanders’ original recipe, has to come to mind. This outpost of the venerable chicken chain is at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, on a segment of historic Route 66 in Upland, California.
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Donut Construction Site
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 200mm ISO 250 3-bkts f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Long before there were McMuffins there were donuts for “healthy” Americans to start their day. Back in the day Winchell’s was a favorite stop for me when I was craving a crumb cake donut, and no construction barriers would have kept me from getting to a dozen donuts. (I have been paying the price for that behavior ever since.)
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Mimi’s Cafe
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 24mm iso 200 1/15 f/8 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Mimi’s Cafe, Chino Hills, California. A chain, but even a chain has its virtues, good breakfasts, muffins and the clam chowder is very decent (when hot and fresh).
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Cafe Opera & Bakery
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 40mm ISO 200 1/125 F/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
On Myrtle Avenue in the pedestrian friendly Old Town, Monrovia, California. There are quite a few restaurants and retauraunt/bars in this neighborhood.
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Hot Nings?
Roadside Americana
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 24mm ISO 320 1/160 f/16 Lr3, TpzSim; PsCS6
No, ”Hot Wings” is behind the shadow. Found on Colorado Boulevard in Old Town, Pasadena, California.
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Give The Man A Hand
Street Life
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 200mm ISO 320 1/80 f/11 Lr4, SEP2; PsCS6
A couple responding to a singer/musician’s free performance, South Main Street pedestrian promenade, The Shoppes, Chino Hills, California.
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Exuberance
Street Life
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 46mm ISO 320 1/25 f/8 Lr4, SEP2; PsCS6
Happy young men mugging for me on their bikes at The Shoppes, Chino Hills, California. This is what you call a suburban biker gang in these parts.
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Common Ground
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 28mm ISO 200 1/50 f/22 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This is one of the passageways to the park in the center of our housing development.
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Rear View
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 16mm ISO 200 1/50 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This ismage validates the photographer’s mantra “Always look behind.” This image was captured from approximately the same postion as the image published last week, titled “Back Door of Commerce”, just with the camera’s stationary postion rotated 180 degrees. When you are out and about looking for scenes to photograph, always, always remember to check out everything around you, sometimes the changes in perspective can be astounding.
The building houses the Robert Pile Chaffey College Information Center on Seventh Street, which was redeveloped in the former downtown Chino commercial center by the city, Chaffey College and technology industry sponsors for teaching information technology programs. I really like the work that the landscape architect did in the plaza which is behind the adjacent school building, and the commercial buildings on “D” street, the stand of fir trees give me good environmental vibes.
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Wall Detail #130
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 24mm ISO 200 1/125 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This is a section of the wall depicted in my last post. I found the color and textures of the brick and mortar interesting, and the remnants of the painted advertising information.
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Back Door of Commerce
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 12mm ISO 200 1/50 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This is a section of commercial building wall that originally faced an alley behind “D” Street in Chino, California. This was the home of a hardware store at one time. I was attracted by the textures, colors and remnants of commerce painted on the wall.
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Decorative Doors
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @18mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/10 Lr4,HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
Found at 140 East Lemon Avenue, Monrovia, California in an unmarked building. Despite their embellishments it did not seem that the doors were welcoming any visitors, a little research indicated that behind the doors might be an industrial carpet cleaning company. What ever the mystery behind the doors, I just liked the look of the doors.
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Chino Community Center
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 24mm ISO 200 1/125 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
The Carolyn Owens Community Center, Chino, California. This view is from the Chino City Hall lawn, looking east across Central Avenue.
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Owen’s Bistro
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 10mm ISO 200 1/80 f/11 Lr3, TpzSim; PsCS6
There is a small concentration of Chino, California’s oldest commercial buildings on D street and the two brick structures in this are Owen’s Bistro. The structure on the left, with the tall openings and drapes is the outdoor dining patio, the building to the right houses the interior dining room. The fountain and sculpture in the foreground are titled “Internal Bridge Between Earth and Sky”. (I do not know who the sculptor is.) More on Owen’s Bistro here and here.
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Clifton Middle School
Nikon D7000 18-200mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/16 Lr4,TpzSim; PsCS6
When I was growing up we called them “junior high schools”, apparently the current term is “middle school”. As far as learning, there is no middle to the process, in life we should always be learning something.
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Red In The Afternoon
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 56mm ISO 200 1/200 f/11 Lr4; PsCS6
The San Marino Motor Classic, June 10, 2012, Lacy Park, San Marino, California.
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Renwick House
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 26mm ISO 200 3- bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP2, TpzSim; PsCS6
After ten years of marriage and the death of her husband, Helen Goodwin Renwick left Iowa and brought her son to Claremont, California. Mrs. Renwick then built her house in 1900 where she raised her son and became a philanthropist to Pomona College. Mrs. Renwick died at the age of 86 in July, 1930, bequeathing her home to Pomona College. From the obituary published July 31, 1930 in the Claremont Courier I found this charming line about Mrs. Renwick:
Following a romance of unusual charm she was married to William Renwick in 1879 and together they enjoyed their home and a companionship in Davenport, Iowa for 10 years.
The Renwick House now serve as the offices of the Pomona College Annual Giving department.
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Seaver House Detail
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 28mm ISO 200 1/8 f/22 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This was the home of the Carlton Seaver family and was originally constructed on a site at Holt and Garey Avenue in Pomona, California in 1900. All of Carlton Seaver’s children a attended Pomona College, Mr. and Mrs. Seaver and subsequent generations of the Seaver family have been major donors to Pomona College. The Seaver house was willed to the college by Carlton Seaver’s widow and moved to its current site on the campus of Pomona College at 305 Campus Avenue, Claremont, California. Seaver House now serves as the location of the Pomona College Alumni Relations Office.
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Sumner House
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 35mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/13 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Sumner House (1887) is the oldest home in Claremont, California. This Queen Anne Victorian was the home of Reverend Charles Burt Sumner, once of the founders of Pomona College. The house was moved to its current location, First Street and College Avenue approximately ten years after construction and serves as the anchor point of the southern perimeter of the college. The home is owned by Pomona College and it is now used as a guest house for the college.
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A Quiet Campus Sidewalk
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 24mm ISO 320 1/8 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
It is late afternoon on the sidewalk under the shade of mature trees lining Sixth Street on the campus of Pomona College, Claremont, California. The building is Clark Hall V, a student residence, the tower in the background is Smith Tower which has both a clock and carillon. By local tradition the carillon chimes at 47 minutes after every hour.
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Bridges Auditorium – West Facade
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 10mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
A head-on shot of Bridges Auditorium situated behind a plaza on the east end of Marston Quad at Pomona College, Claremont, California. Bridges faces the Carnegie (Library) building which sits across College Avenue at the west end of Marston Quad.
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Bridges Auditorium Late Aftenoon
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 15mm ISO 320 1/250 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
The Maybel Shaw Bridges Music Auditorium was designed by architect William Templeton and constructed in 1931 at a cost of $600,000; it seats 2,500. This view s of the north and west facades of the auditorium which sits on the eastern edge of Marston Quad, at Pomona College, Claremont, California.
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