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November, 2007:

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company – Worcester, MA

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA
© Frank H. Jump

According to the Worcester Historical Museum, Heywood Shoe Co. closed in 1953.

Matrix Shoes by Heywood 1948 Ad.

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA

This May, 1948 House of Heywood [color ad] Worcester, Mass., Makers of Mens fine Shoes since 1864. Ad states: Outside your foot steps in style, inside our footprint in leather. Picture shows pair of Matrix Shoes and footprint in leather.¹

Heywood Boot & Shoe Company - Worcester, MA

Biography of Walter Chamberlain Porter, former employee.

Another shot of Heywood on Mike Nyman’s blog. 

Astronauts Fix Ripped Solar Wing

Astronauts Fix Ripped Solar Wing

photo credit

Sharing Earth Observation Resources

Finocchi, Fiori di Zucchini e Fagioli

Finocchi, Fiori di Zucchini e Fagioli

Finocchi, Fiori di Zucchini e Fagioli

Finocchi, Fiori di Zucchini e Fagioli
© Frank H. Jump

Finocchi translation, Fiori di Zucchini e Fagioli Borlotti

Chi sa perchè i gay vengono chiamati “finocchi”??

Finocchi Bruciati

Fennel sickly sweet
Taste beneath my black-licoriced tongue
Unsavory medieval smoky vexed exaltations
Offerings
Burnt bundles of seed-oil-soaked switches
Sticks of acrid anise star
Exploding silent supernovae
Offerings
Bursting in flames beneath an Inquisitor’s
Bitter blackened blade
Millions of merry martyrs
Faery Satyrs,
Wizened witches,
Fey fakirs & swishy Svengalis
Floating putrid plasmatic
Plumes ascending
Imploding stench
Quelling gay panic
Across a Dark Ages Europe
Offerings to the unquenchable God
Overseer of eternal entrapment

Finocchio col gusto gravemente dolce
Sotto la mia lingua annerita dalla liquirizia
Immorale medievale fumosa noiosa esaltazione
Offerte
Bruciati fasci di fruste imbevute con olio di semi finocchio
Acridi bastoni di anice stella
Esplosione silenziosa di supernova
Offerte
Scoppiando in fiamme sotto uno Inquisitore
Amara annerita lama
Milioni di martiri allegri
Satire di fate
Streghe raggrinzite,
Fachiri effemminati e Maghi checche
Galleggianti putridi plasmatica
Pennacchi ascendenti
Implodendo odore di fallo
Sedare di panico omosessuale
Attraverso una Buia Europa dei secoli scorsi
Offerte a un Dio inappagabile
L’intrappolamento di sorveglianza eterna

(Co-translated by Vincenzo Aiosa & Frank H. Jump)

From Out on the Edge to the Center of Joni Mitchell's World – Boston Globe on John Kelly

Kelly Channels Mitchell

‘Paved Paradise’ delivers an affectionate tribute to the spirit of Joni Mitchell – The Boston Globe

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs – Worcester, MA

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA
© Frank H. Jump

A National Hot Dog Landmark!

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA
“The neon sign has all the makings of a great Roadfood joint.”
– Stephen Rushmore Jr.

George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA George's Coney Island Hot Dogs - Worcester, MA
Check these two pages above as well!

Don’t miss another Coney Island food sign at:
Coney Island Texas Lunch, Scranton PA

Enola Gay Pilot Dies @ 92

Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan – died at the age of 92

Enola Gay Pilot Dies @ 92

until
there are
no soldiers
we have all
died in
vain

qazse

Manhattan Project Unveiled – NY Times

Manhattan Project Unveiled

Fritz Goro/Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images

The Nevis cyclotron, which was constructed at Columbia University’s Nevis Research Laboratory in Irvington, New York. A plaque at Columbia proclaims it a Registered National Historic Landmark, but there is no mention of ties to the bomb.

Mobil Oils – For Correct Automobile… Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

Mobil Oils, Flatbush Avenue - Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

Early Mobil Oils ad campaign.

Mobil Oils - Flatbush Avenue & Mobil Gas by Chris Adams, Lonely Pictures
© Chris Adams, Lonely Pictures

Ice Cream Truck – Avenue K, Brooklyn

AJ's Ice Cream Truck, Avenue K - Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

Dot Earth – Nine Billion People. One Planet – NY Times Blog

Dot Earth. Climate Change and Sustainability

Dot Earth – Climate Change & Sustainability – The melting Arctic icecap, as seen from a NASA satellite in September 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. — Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” speech, 1996