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- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
- Notch shot
- Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)
- Ship lifespans
- New service
- You Say Station, I Say Potato ...
- Iron Age
- Thank you, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Grand Central Terminal
- If they made a movie of it
- Obsolete by then.
- Half the tonnage at the NYPANO dock
- Ravages escaped, bank notes signed and dated
- Chatham expansion
- Steepled in History
- Made by York
- No Summer Vacation
- Wait a minute ...
- $$$
- Joad on the Road
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Welcome to Denver: 1908
Click here for a view of the arch from the depot.
Denver, Colorado, circa 1908. "Welcome arch and Union Depot." Where blurry pedestrians risk the retoucher's brush. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Welcome Arch
Shortly after this photo was taken, this side of the arch was changed to "Mizpah" - Hebrew for "God watch over you while we are apart" - after some citizens pointed out that "Welcome" didn't make sense for people passing under as they departed. "Welcome" remained on the arrival side until the arch was declared a traffic hazard and removed in 1931. The central portion of the depot lost its tower when it was rebuilt in Romanesque style in 1914
Modern advertising skills
The Depot Drug Store's slogan, painted on the side of the building, is "Come In and Wait". I'm not sure that kind of slogan would work today.
Photo Retouching
By the time this photo was taken in 1908, the airbrush had been around for nearly a decade. It's level of sophistication and ease of operation may not have been quite on par with modern machines, but would have definitely done a better retouching job on the blurred pedestrian than this feeble attempt done by a regular brush. From someone who did his share of photo retouching the old school way with an airbrush, retouch grays, and frisket paper, let me tell you that I love PhotoShop immensely.
[The actual "retouching" would be done while preparing the lithograph printing stones, in effect repainting the area. My guess is that the scratching out of the pedestrian was a method of calling attention to the necessity of doing so. -tterrace]
Right you are! My remarks would only pertain to photographic print retouching. Thanks!
My kind of place !
The Oxford Hotel looks like my kind of place. Cigars on one side, bar and restaurant on the other and a nice group of chairs in the middle! Time to sit down and have a smoke!
Superhero
I think that might be the Human Torch crossing the street there.
+104
Below is the same view from July of 2012.
Because ...
that's much less noticeable than a blurred pedestrian, right?
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