Archive for October 22nd, 2024
Archives #012
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Broken ankle guy Mitch here (hashtag ‘Brankle’), with today’s Newtown Pentacle archives post. These postings were chosen in somewhat random fashion – with the commonality and conceit of the grouping being that they were all published on this date in their respective years, falling sometime between 2009 and now. It’s going to be a while before I’m presenting anything that’s been newly gathered here, as I’m literally writing this post while sitting in the same wheelchair that I’ve been inhabiting for the last month.
This 2014 post discussed the coin operated ‘rides’ and vending machines which populate the sidewalks of Astoria outside of deli’s and pizzerias.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Putting these posts together, especially in my current physical state, have offered me an interesting experience. I seldom look backwards at the road I’ve walked, except to check if I’m being followed, of course. The archive post may be talking about some obtuse historical talking point, or arguing against this or that issue of the day, but the photos always bring me right back to the day/hour/minute existential reality of capturing them. I remember walking down Roosevelt Avenue in the cold – vividly – on the night that the shot above was captured. The image calls up memory of smell and sounds for me. That’s what’s so interesting about pulling these old posts, and seeing all the places that this ‘schmuck with a camera’ had managed to talk his way into.
Heh, check me out – nostalgic.
This post from 2018 mentions that today is the anniversary of Edison electrifying the first light bulb, amongst other things, and runs three fairly unrelated photos as illustration. It was also a Monday.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The escape from New York was being planned for a lot longer than I let on, and by October of 2021 it already was looking like Pittsburgh was where we would be headed towards. A sudden appearance of posts talking about lands which might be found beyond New Jersey or …Staten Island… begin to populate the archives here in 2021.
October 22 in 2021 saw this Pittsburgh post published, with images captured in a long walk that asked the question ‘could I live here?’
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