Gary Hornseth

A night time, black and white photo of a building entrance with two pairs of double doors. The elaborate, ceiling-mounted metal feature shown in the original post is seen above each entryway, lit from above. The article contains many more images of the building’s interior and exterior detailing, a lot of which picks up on similar design themes. Magazine caption: “The employees' entrance on Third Avenue, as shown in the photograph above by night” Photographer credited as Howson

An image of that entryway when it was new.

From “The Creation of a Telephone Building,” Architecture: The Professional Architecture Monthly, April 1933.

PDF of issue (article begins on p. 199) accessed via usmodernist.org; www.usmodernist.org/index-am.htm

Just as I’m starting to wonder, “So what’s that thing behind the sign…,” Vic solves it.

Center!

One minute of the Grain Belt Beer sign and a train crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis

Sandwich board sign on sidewalk. James and Mary Laurie Booksellers. We Buy and Sell Rare, Used and Out-of-Print. BOOKS MAPS PRINTS Appraisals Search Service.

James & Mary Laurie Booksellers is ensconced in their new location at 933 Marquette Ave. S. in downtown Minneapolis. If I have the sequence right, this is about location No. 6 (N. St. Paul>Stillwater>St. Paul>Nicollet Mall>North Loop>Marquette). Yes, the photo when Mick Jagger visited is displayed.

A daytime view in color taken at street level from around 10th Street looking toward the river. The sky appears bright but overcast. A storefront clock visible along the left, if accurate, suggests it’s about 10:48 am. The movies listed on marquees (THE SEARCHERS, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS), narrow the date to probably sometime between June 1-6, 1956. The view looks down the center of the avenue as signs and buildings recede toward the Grain Belt Beer sign in the distant background. Cars of many colors line the avenue, parked and in traffic. Some motorists have their windows down. Some pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. Just about all the men are wearing hats, even those driving. A couple of city buses with red exteriors approach from the distance. Businesses or signs in view include the Anthony Hotel, The Gopher Cafe, The Gopher Theatre, the Orpheum Theatre, The State Theatre, Hirshfield’s.

Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis
June 1956

Image: Hennepin Co. Library, digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...

I’ve been glad for a long time that London Wainwright wasn’t listening.

A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York

Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...

pro-nonsense

Looking up at a dusky blue sky with silhouettes of leafless trees and several lamp posts trailing off into the distance, a setting yellow sun as a small, bright ball on the horizon, and a layer of small clouds in a tight patchwork pattern

Good evening, Saint Paul.

Night view from Blackfriars Bridge looking downstream over the River Thames showing Blackfriars railway station platforms that stand over the river - brightly illuminated, a train on the northbpund platform under the glass roof and sides that are lit in blue. In the right background the Shard can be seen.

Blackfriars station & the River Thames #london #photography

Can confirm.

“Well, this club is formed.”

Black and white daytime photo of Joseph Binder striding toward the camera alongside the front of a train underneath a depot overhang. Sign on front of train reads “Burlington Route.” He wears a hat, overcoat and suit and tie, and glasses with round frames, perhaps carrying something under his left arm. Right hand in coat pocket. A few figures visible in far background.

The MAK’s online collection houses more of Binder’s work including more travel sketches from around the U.S., to which he emigrated in the mid-1930s. Also this picture of him alongside the Burlington Zephyr in Minneapolis, 1935.

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Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...

A vertically oriented pastel sketch on white paper in red, blue, grey, black and yellow. It’s a view across a field of rooftops of what look like commercial/industrial buildings that recede into the background. The view looks like it would have been looking out of an upper floor window. In the immediate foreground there is a flat rooftop with some skylights; it looks almost as though you could step out onto it. A few smokestacks and chimneys are in view, one emitting a thin trail of dark smoke. Sketch pad perforations visible along the left edge.

Travel sketch, Minneapolis
1933-1935
Joseph Binder (1898-1972), Austrian graphic designer

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Image: Online collection, The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/m...

A horizontally oriented pastel sketch on white paper in red, blue, grey, black and yellow. It’s a streetscape showing a collection of commercial buildings, one of about 10 stores in the background and some lower-profile ones in the foreground. Some cars are visible and what looks like a yellow streetcar. One small, leafless tree is in the immediate foreground. Sketch pad perforations visible along the left edge.

Travel sketch, Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis
1934
Joseph Binder (1898-1972), Austrian graphic designer

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Image: Online collection, The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/a...

A horizontally oriented pastel sketch on white paper in red, blue, grey and black, showing a portion of the Stone Arch Bridge in the foreground and the milling district in the background. Sketch pad perforations visible along the left edge.

Travel sketch, Minneapolis
1935
Joseph Binder (1898-1972), Austrian graphic designer

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Image: Online collection, The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; sammlung.mak.at/de/collect/m...

FACT: The Zamboni family came to the United States from the Friuli region of northern Italy, roughly 100 miles from where this Olympics men’s hockey final is being played.

Thanks for resurfacing this.

Album cover: Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention (1969)

Someone needs to invent competitive unhalfbricking for this very purpose.

A full-page ad in black and white showing a St. Paul skyline and river view running along the bottom. Minnesota State Capitol in view along left edge. A superimposed movie projector in profile looms over the city, alongside a black circle containing text: “Entire City of St. Paul is 70% Simplex”. A row of six billboards is in the bottom foreground giving similar stats for about a dozen other cities. One billboard reads “Quality Wins”. Callout box at bottom reads “MADE AND GUARANTEED BY THE PRECISION MACHINE CO. INC. 317 East 34th St - New York”

One of a series of national trade advertisements touting the popularity of Simplex movie projectors in various American cities

Moving Picture World
July 30, 1921

Image: MoMA Library Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/movi...

Angine de Poitrine - Sarniezz (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Merci, algorithmes de YouTube.

If they do, they should give each non-medalist a precipitation trophy.

A vertically oriented cover with a white background, mostly taken up by an illustration of five overlapping shapes of translucent concentric circles in wide bands of bright colors, from yellows reds and oranges to dark blues and greens. Copy reads “SABA RADIO 64” in the upper right and “moderne Form - perfekte Technik” along the bottom. A logo in the lower right looks like a combo of a half-note notation and a tree.

Cover, catalog for radios, console stereos and televisions
SABA
Villingen, West Germany
1964

Image: Catalogs Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/saba...

It seems an odd thing to not know, but I don’t.

Philadelphia, 1950s (opened 1953), by Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen. 📷 via @phlairport.bsky.social. #airportarchitecture

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Great album!

Mr Therm making an apperance, ad infinitum, on the cover of a c.1960 publicity recipe book. This copy was issued by the North Thames Gas Board whose area covered North London and the surrounding areas. Mr. Therm had been conceived by artist and designer Eric Fraser for the old London based Gas Light & Coke Company in the early 1930s; the use of this jolly little mascot had flourished after his adoption by the wider gas industry, pre- and post-Nationalisation, until he was retired around the time of North Sea Gas. The cover is dominated by blue and yellow with Mr. Therm, wearing a chef's hat and with a copy of this cookery book in his hands, in red. The title panel, in yellow is upper left, and the rest of the cover shows a kitchen table with utensils and ingredients. inc. a mixing bowl, a flour sifter, a bottl eof wine, tomatoes, mushrooms and lemons.

A cheery Mr. Therm on the cover, ad infinitum, on the cover of a c.1960 publicity recipe book from the North Thames Gas Board, who served N. London & surrounding areas - Mr. Therm's Cookery Book. #publicity #advertising #vintage #cookery #1950s

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sustained lol

That’s one way into equestrian.