August, 2016:

Boland’s Flour Mills – Dublin, Ireland – Andrea Newmark

Aug 29th, 2016

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cropped © Andrea Newmark

Plans for the €150 million redevelopment of the historic Boland’s Mill site in Dublin’s docklands, including the construction of a 15-storey apartment block, have been approved by Dublin City Council. The Nama-backed development involves the construction of three new office and residential blocks and the restoration of the five original, but now derelict, mill buildings.

However the reference to the “mill” has been removed from the title of the development which will be called “Boland’s Quay”. The development is one of the first schemes undertaken though the fast-track planning system for the docklands. – Irish Times, Olivia Kelly – July 2015

Beshar’s Rugs & Antiques – Robert P. Beshar Obituary – NYTimes – Bronx, NY – J. O’Shaughnessy

Aug 25th, 2016

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Robert Peter Beshar, 86, died peacefully at home in Somers, New York on April 16, 2014…In 1993, Bob became President of his family’s rug and antiques business, Beshar’s, in New York City. Bob’s interests were varied and intense. A love of decorative arts — bronzes, china, jewelry, clocks. He liked to say: “the hand shapes the mind.” Reading novels late into the night — convinced there was more truth in fiction than in non-fiction. Telling a great story over dinner and challenging children, grandchildren and startled guests to “sing for their supper.” – NYTimes Obituary

The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York
By Ellen Williams, Steve Radlauer (The Little Bookroom, 2002)

Home of the [Beautiful] Rug Cleaning Lusterlog Revisited – East 138th & Canal Place – Bronx, NY – J. O’Shaughnessy

Aug 18th, 2016

by Frank.

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Lorraine Motel – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Memphis, TN – Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

Aug 16th, 2016

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National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis TN

Where Dr. King checked into the Lorraine Motel – © Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

Can a man love God and hate his brother? – National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN

Scene from a Rockaway Park Fire Escape

Aug 10th, 2016

by Frank.

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Jacob Riis Park Beach Panorama – Walking Into A Different Dimension From Rockaway Park

Aug 8th, 2016

by Frank.

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I grew up coming to this beach. In 1976, I would bicycle to Riis Beach regularly, chain it to the nursing home fence, wave hello to some of the patients hanging out of the window watching the multitudes of free spirits, take off all of my clothes, spread a blanket and have instant friends. Some of the elderly patients from the nursing home would wander out and walk amongst the living. And we were living. It was a magic summer when tall ships were sailing up the harbor and everyone was tuned into one disco station WBLS. The beach shook from the dancing. It was a slice of heaven. It was before the plague and we were carefree and expressing our freedom freely. Halcyon days.

Coquina Clams on Rockaway Beach (Donax fossor) – Frank H. Jump

Aug 7th, 2016

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These bivalves rarely exceed an inch long and are indicators of a healthy beach. – Beach Chair Scientist

Music by Philip Glass based on Bowie’s V2-Schneider – Heroes