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Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida - 1954

August 15, 2008 – 11:07 am

Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida - 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Doesn’t look all that different, 54 years later.

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Coconuts at St Petersburg, Florida

August 14, 2008 – 8:05 am


Coconuts at St Petersburg, Florida, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

When I got to St Pete in ‘95, the downtown area looked bombed out (hey, who remembers the neutron bomb? They still makin’ those?). It’s a little livelier now, but the real estate crash has put everything on hold.

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Rutlands and Kress - Central Ave St. Petersburg, Florida 1954

August 12, 2008 – 11:30 am

Rutlands and Kress - Central Ave St. Petersburg, Florida 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Yes! This is the real thing! Genuine St Pete!

Okay, This and the few posts below are from the Flickr collection of Vieilles Annonces, whose collection I have tapped before. Her collection of beautiful vernacular photograpy from mid-century America and beyond is beautiful and amazing– take some time and scroll through it. From Alaska to Florida, her trove is enchanting.

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Snell Island, St Petersburg, Florida in 1954

August 12, 2008 – 11:24 am


Snell Island, St Petersburg, Florida in 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Love me some sidewalk, don’t ask why. Really love these old Kodachrome colors.

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Snell Island St Petersburg, Florida 1954

August 12, 2008 – 11:22 am

Snell Island St Petersburg, Florida 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Vieilles Annonces is the Queen Of Flickr Vernacularity!

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Papaya grove in St Pete 1954

August 12, 2008 – 11:20 am

Papaya grove in St Pete 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Vieilles Annonces comes through again!

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Women With Groceries

August 12, 2008 – 9:15 am

Yep, it’s all coming back to me now. I think I used to be some kind of teenaged stray, wandering the neighborhood and begging for food. Not that there wasn’t plenty at home, but that would have involved personal meal preparation, for which I was apparently too lazy.

Feed Me

Feed Me

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Carrie Jadus Warms Up For The Portrait Exchange

August 12, 2008 – 9:08 am

She’s still searching around for the perfect domain name, but Carrie is determined to establish an artist’s portrait network in her hometown.

Carrie Jadus @ Interior Motives

Carrie Jadus @ Interior Motives

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Suburban Cartoons For Everyone!

August 12, 2008 – 8:58 am

I did these little 18×24 paintings last week. I am trying to remember what I saw when I was a kid in the ‘burbs, with a lot of time and nothing to do. I am noticing that what I remember at this point is women my parents age who could potentially give me food. Maybe this is the way my dog Toulouse sees the world.

Groceries & Car

Groceries & Car

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More Cartoons Of Sunbelt Suburbia In The Seventies

August 8, 2008 – 9:46 am

Well, one more, anyway. More to follow. I have more fun drawing these little pieces of fragmented memory from my distant youth than I do painting them, but painting them is pretty great, too. When I get enough of the images together, they will come together as a story or series of stories, and I will scan the pencil sketches into Photoshop, export them to Illustrator for inking, and then back to Photoshop for color and effects, then back to Illustrator for page makeup. At that point I can do web comics or actual printing. I’ve done this process before, and it is laborious and takes me away from the easel, but it’s really satisfying for me.

Neighbor Lady Asks For An Ashtray

Neighbor Lady Asks For An Ashtray

Edit-The upgrade to WP 2.6 has totally wrecked my permalink structure, so I apologize for the editing and double-posting.

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