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Infrogmation, 2 days ago to windows

Window at Preservation Hall back patio, French Quarter, New Orleans

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#FensterFreitag #Windows #WindowFriday #NOLA #NewOrleans #FrenchQuarter #PreservationHall #CocaCola

Infrogmation, 7 days ago to Michigan

Associate Press news: Woman was living inside rooftop grocery store sign with computer and coffee maker for a year

34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign of a store in Midland, Michigan.

[edit: Link fixed]

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-store-rooftop-sign-homeless-0185c0d7e4cd7a2f8581e8b8e0eb01b7

"Obviously, we don’t want people resorting to illegal activity to find housing. There are much better options.”
...Are there?

#Homelessness #Michigan

Infrogmation, 7 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: "Mama" edition, in honor of US Mother's Day.

1. Mama Rosa's, Rampart Street, French Quarter.

2. Nacho Mama's, Magazine Street, Uptown.

3. Mama Roux, Krewe du Vieux parade 2006 (first Carnival parade after the Hurricane Katrina Federal Flood).

4. I Bet Ya Mama Like It, Food truck on Orleans Avenue, Mid-City.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA
#NewOrleans #signs #Mama #Mother #Mother'sDay

Streetscape of 2 story buildings with balconies, restaurants with tables along the sidewalk. Painted wooden sign hangs from pole, text "NACHO MAMA'S - Mexican Grill - NOLA". Cartoon artwork of a woman seen from waist up; she wears a green dress and a flower in her hair, she smiles and plays castanets. To her right is a large red chili pepper.
Small parade float, raised section with large letters reading: "Mama Roux - HOME is where the TARP is". The float is decorated with blue FEMA tarps and multiple plastic signs as common in the months of slow recovery after the Hurricane Katrina Federal Flood disaster in New Orleans, advertising services with telephone numbers. Various sign texts seen: "DEMO JOE - House Gutting - Local Boys". "I Buy Scrap Copper Wire". "We Tear Down Houses to the Ground". "We Sue". "Flooded by Katrina - Screwed by FEMA".
Colorfully painted food truck parked on street, with 2 story house in background. Central artwork depicts a slightly anthropormophized crawfish wearing a chef's hat and smock. Text above: "EFF ya CHEF". Text at left: "Oysters - Stuffed Burgers - Shrimp - Concoction Corn - Wings". Text at right: "I bet YA MAMA like it".

Infrogmation, 9 days ago to AllStarTrek

Turn the technobabble up to Warp 10!

#AllStarTrek #Threshold #StarTrekVOY
@allstartrek

Infrogmation, 10 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: "Parts" edition.

1. Bike Parts & Formal Wear - Basin Street, Treme.
2. Auto Parts, Broad, Broadmoor
   3)Spare Parts Express, Krewe of OAK Mid-City Mardi Gras, Carrollton
   3)Parts Welcome Here, 7th Ward New Marigny.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #parts

Commercial building that looks long deserted at curve in a road. Billboard type signs beside the building; the upper signs have faded to brown with nothing legible. The bottom sign is less faded, with text: "HUB CAP KING - AUTO PARTS". Sign on metal pole text: "MEYER'S - AUTO PARTS".
A miniature parade float made out of a meter long pull wagon is on a sidewalk. Sign at back reads "SPARE PARTS EXPRESS". In the cart is an audio speaker decorated with pipes, plastic clips, and other inexpensive items made to resemble a 1950s science fiction show robot. Two plastic cups are attached at bottom back of the wagon with red and orange paper streamers, to depict rocket engines firing.
Faded metal sign hanging on pole from building. Two or three different layers of painted text are partially visible in overlayed faded letters. The most clearly readable parts of sign are block letters at top, text: "PARTS". Lower section of sign in different cursive text: "Welcome Here".

StillIRise1963, 11 days ago to random

James Comey is a bad man.

StillIRise1963, 15 days ago to random

It would be totally fair if nations turned your American ass away when you try to flee, so. THINK.

Infrogmation, 16 days ago to windows

Weathered windows, Uptown New Orleans.

Photographs by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#Windows #NOLA #NewOrleans #FensterFreitag #FenêtreVendredi #WindowsFriday

Tall double-hung window in decrepit building covered with vines.
Detail of 19th century wooden building with some carved "gingerbread" style decorative wooden details. Looking to set of three windows in center of attic above porch; most of the panes of glass are missing.
Side of a once grand old 3 story house divided into apartments. Some windows have air-conditioners, some drawn shades, and some wooden boards behind them. At center a large window retains old decorative stained glass; the top of the center pane is slightly open.

Infrogmation, 17 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans stale beer signs volume II, Regal edition. (Regal was brewed by American Brewing Company on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter c 1891-1961)

1. Elizabeth's Restaurant, Bywater (old signage since restored)
2. Snake & Jakes, Carrollton (also since restored)
3. Dixie Tavern, Lower Garden District
4. Advertising clock, seen in bar in Carrollton.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #beer #signs #advertising

A small neighborhood bar in a decrepit looking building with tarped roof. To one side of door is faded sign "REGAL".
Section of exterior wall of wooden building, with weatherboards recently repainted except for a rectangle painted with faded advertising. Text: "DIXIE TAVERN - SANDWICHES & SEAFOOD". Below artwork depicting a glass of beer. TEXT: "REGAL keg BEER - With FROZEN GLASSES".
Illuminated analog clock on wall. In center is artwork of the face and hand of a man holding a glass of beer. The man has long black hair and a pencil moustache, and is smiling with enthusiasm. He wears a 17th century style soft broad-brimmed hat with a large plume, like a Musketeer. Text below: "REGAL BEER".

Infrogmation, 18 days ago to NewOrleans

Old signage in Uptown New Orleans: Stale beer edition.

Defunct locally brewed brands including Falstaff, Dixie, and Jax.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

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#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #beer #vintageAdvertisement

Faded signage painted on weatherboards of old wooden building, Text: "WINES & LIQUORS - DIXIE 45 BRAND - BOTTLED BEER"
badly faded wooden sign, white letters on red background. Text: "Enjoy FALSTAFF BEER - The Choicest Product of the Br". (rest of sign illegible.)
Outdoor sign hanging from metal frame off single story corner building. Logo of a man on horseback on tap (depicting the Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson Square, New Orleans, the trademark of Jax beer) and a stylized beer tap. Text: "JAX - ON TAP".

Infrogmation, 19 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Yesterday's Coffee edition.

1. Kaldi's - sign in Molly's at the Market.
2. Coffee & Company, Lakeview - while Lakeview did come back after the Federal Flood, alas they did not.
   3)Luzianne - the brand is still around, but this sign can no longer be seen Uptown on Marengo Street.
3. Closed corner shop sign, Gentilly - Roastivated.

Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans
#signs #coffee

Single story concrete commercial building with lettering on the top "COFFEE & COMPANY". The building wears ugly brown flood lines at various levels from 1 to 2 meters up. A temporary plastic sign hangs in front reading "Lakeview IS COMING BACK, AND SO ARE WE!"
Faded wooden sign built into wall of old wooden building. Top of sign text "OPEN 7a.m. to 9p.m. - SUNDAY 7a.m. to 9p.m." Below artwork depicting a cup of coffee, with larger text "DRINK LUZIANNE"
Old shop signage painted on to weatherboards of wooden building. Text at top: MRS. RIBADUO'S GROCERY. " Below is the logo for French Market brand coffee, art in the center depicts a single story building with high roof and three ventilation towers - older building of the Old French Market in New Orleans. In an oval around the artwork text reads "French Market Coffee". Text below: "IT'S ROASTIVATED."

Infrogmation, 22 days ago to NewOrleans

Old New Orleans Signs: "Give Me Your Telephone Number" edition

1)Lower Garden District. FAX number too.
2)Mid-City. Dance Hall.
3)Algiers. Call Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph before you dig!
4)Uptown. TWinbrook exchange number. (New Orleans switched to numbers in the 1960s but the sign lasted into the 2010s.)

Photographs by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #TelephoneNumber

Outdoor scene, chain link fence partly overgrown with weeds. A faded wooden sign with red letters on white background is attached to the fence. It has an arrow pointing right. Text: "DANCE HALL 412" and a 7 digit telephone number.
Wooden utility pole with a faded metal sign attached, black letters on a yellow background. At right is artwork depicting a stylized bell, labeled "BELL SYSTEM". Text: "WARNING - BURIED CABLE - BEFORE DIGGING IN THIS VICINITY PLEASE CALL (COLLECT) OR NOTIFY - SOUTHERN BELL TEL & TEL CO., GRETNA - TEL. NO." (7 digit telephone number)
Row of three 19th century wooden "shotgun" style houses (narrow street fronts with long interiors). The closest one has a sign hanging from a metal frame out front, blue text on white glass. At center is a silhouette of a head in profile. The text alternates between cursive and block letters. Top text: "Cameo BEAUTY SALON". Text at lower left: "Stylist JACOB KERTH". Text at lower right: "Call TW - " (5 digit telephone number).

Infrogmation, 23 days ago to windows

Older shop windows in New Orleans.

1. Algiers Point - Renecky Shoe Co
   2)Algiers Point - Whiskey & Wines
   3)Freret Street, 13th Ward - Big Shot, Oil Change
   4)Gentilly - Air Conditioned Drugs

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans

@noladon
#FensterFriday #FensterFreitag #Windows #WindowFriday #NOLA #NewOrleans #ShopWindows

Old neighborhood grocery shop window with painting, style c. 1930s - 1950s. Text: "WHISKEY & WINES". Below, artwork depicting a load of bread wrapped in paper, with text: "Sunbeam Batter Whipped - COMPARE". At bottom right, text: "M. ABASCAL & BRO".
Auto service shop window with hand painted lettering. Text: '* BIG SHOT 20 oz - * Special Front Brake Pads - * OIL CHANGE up to 5 qts - * All TIRES on SALE". A "No Parking" sign is affixed to the window.
c. mid-20th century shop window in wooden frame, pile of old plaster rubble seen at bottom. Text on upper part of window: "AIR CONDITIONED". At center, stylized artwork depicting a mortar and pestle. Text below: "DRUGS".

Infrogmation, 24 days ago to NewOrleans

Sign of the Crawfish, New Orleans.

1. Tulane U campus - aw that's no fun...
2. Cafe Luna, Uptown, early reopener after the Federal Flood
   3)St Roch Tavern, St Roch
   4)Hutchinson Memorial bldg, CBD

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #Crawfish #Crayfish #Crawdads

Text: "NEW ORLEANS - WELCOME HOME". Cartoon of anthropomorphized crwafish having a New Orleans parade. They wear shoes, vests or shirts, and New Orleans brass band musician caps. The first crawfish holds an umbrella and a covered steaming plate of food. The second plays trumpet, the third trombone, the fourth trombone, the fifth Sousaphone, the last a bass drum.
c. mid-20th century wooden sign with paint. Top text: "STOP! - CRAWFISH CONTEST - TO-NITE". Below, logo for long-defunct local "Regal Beer", a man holding a beer bottle. Text: "REGAL - Genuine Lager BEER".
Art deco style architectural building detail depicting a crawfish

Infrogmation, 25 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).

1. Carrollton
2. Central Business District
3. Bayou St. John
4. Lakeview

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #Gators #Alligators

Interior of a supermarket. Shelf with local spices and cooking supplies has large chalkboard sign. Text: "Shop ROUSES For Your CAJUN Cooking Needs". Multicolor chalk cartoon of an alligator stirring a large cooking pot. A colorful parasol is above the gator's head; the gator smiles broadly with rows of sharp teeth. Text on the cooking pot: "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez!" (Louisiana French for "Let the Good Times Roll".)
Bayou body of water with grassy banks, houses seen in background on far shore. In center is a square metal sign, black text and artwork on bright yellow. Text: "ALLIGATORS IN THE XIUHMOPOILLI". The text surrounds round artwork, copied from the center of the famous Aztec Sun Stone, depicting a stylized human face with tongue sticking out surrounded with Aztec glyphs in the form of reptile heads and an outer circle with points sticking out, a mythological depiction of the Sun. The pole holding up the sign has been decorated with ceramic artwork, at top and bottom of pole simple round discs, between them a ceramic depiction of a small alligator.
Display in small garden space, wooden fence in background, green shrubs in soil bed. Halloween plastic skeletons lie at left, one human form the other alligator. Sign in form of fake tombstone drawings of a pair of alligators at top with a fleur-de-lis in the center. Below is text: "RIP DUMPSTER GATOR 2021". At bottom is artwork depicting the tip of the tail of an alligator sticking up from the ground. Note: Reference is to a large dead alligator seen sticking out of a dumpster in an urban section of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida in 2021, with no one seeming to know how it got there.

Infrogmation, 27 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume I).

1)Bourbon Street, French Quarter
2)Mid-City
3)French Market
4)Bayou St. John

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #gators #alligators

Wooden bench beside brick staircase. Clay plant pots are on either end of the bench, with more pots underneath. Along the length of the bench is painted a green alligator. Text underneath: "OH BAH LEI BOOGALOO"
Multicolored statue of an alligator standing upright, licking its lips and rolling its eyes up, wearing purple green and gold colored human clothes. One hand is raised holding a tray. On the tray is a wooden sign reading "U CAN'T BEAT GATOR MEAT!"
Scene along a bayou with grassy banks. A large raised house is in the background. In foreground is a rectangular metal sign, black text on yellow background, "ALLIGATORS IN AREA" with a pictogram of an alligator. The sign has been modified with black marker to read "ALLIGATOR'S SIN AREA", with additions of a joint in the gator's mouth, a can of beer in the gator's hand, and a sign reading "XXX".

Infrogmation, 27 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Birds edition

1. Bayou St. John
2. City Park
3. Uptown 13th Ward
4. Faubourg Maringy

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NOLA #NewOrleans #signs #birds

Large pond in park. Museum building on far shore. On near shore is a sign reading "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE DUCKS ON DIRT BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM SICK. - PLEASE FEED THEM IN THE WATER OR ON THE GRASS." Silhouette artwork of 3 ducks at lower right of sign.
Interior of small restaurant. Large sign on wall reading: "GOOD BIRD". A smaller sign at top reads: "Our CHICKEN is Free Range - Hormone-Free Antibiotic-Free - and our Bread is Organic Locally Sourced Wild Flour Bread". At bottom of photo is a restaurant counter with containers holding paper napkins, straws, salt and pepper shakers.
Sign, red lettering on white. At top "Loretta's New Orleans Authentic Pralines" with logo depicting 3 pecan nuts and a leaf. Larger text below: "NO Alcohol - NO Profanity - NO Smoking - NO Nudity - NO Penguins".

Infrogmation, 28 days ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Dogs edition

1. Greenville
2. Lower Garden District
3. Esplanade Ridge / Faubourg St. Jean
4. Carrollton Riverbend

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

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#NOLA #NewOrleans #Signs #Dogs

Metal gate in front of stairs leading to doorway of wooden 19th century neo-classical style house. Hand drawn sign is on the gate. In center is a cartoon drawing of a face, 2 round eyes, small nose, and a wide grinning mouth with sharp teeth. Above the face is lettering "BEWARE OF". Below is text "Alligator", with the word alligator crossed out. At bottom is text "Dogs".
Wooden utility pole vertically at center of photo. In background is street with 1 and 2 floor residential buildings. Attached to the utility pole is a sign, hand lettered on scrap metal, reading "PICK UP FIDEAUX'S POOP".
Wooden picket fence and gate in front of porch and door of a wooden house. The gate is held shut with both a metal latch and a bungee cord. A medium sized yellow dog is watching passers by from inside the gate. A residential letter box is atop a pole beside the gate. On the front of the letter box is hand written: "Because of Dogs - Please Deliver next door". Arrow symbol pointing right. Lower text: "Thank you."

Infrogmation, 1 month ago to NewOrleans

A few windows in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

1. Conti Street
2. Bienville Street
3. Jackson Brewery
4. Chartres Street

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans

@noladon

#NewOrleans #NOLA #FrenchQuarter
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday

Exterior view towards upstairs of 3 story brick building. It is partly covered with vines and plants. Windows and shutters on the middle floor are open or missing, giving appearance that at least that part of the building is vacant or abandoned.
Stained glass window from c. 1890s for local beer brewery. At center is a silhouette of a man on horseback, referencing the statue of General Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square, New Orleans. Text at top: "JACKSON BREWING CO" . Text lower center: "TEL 540". Text at bottom: "BOHEMIAN BEER - NEW ORLEANS LA".
View from interior garden, with a barred window in brick wall. Lush plants are seen at bottom and right of photo. Through the window a young woman and a young man, both in sunglasses and casual clothes, are seen walking on the sidewalk; they turn to their heads to look in the window towards the photographer. In background 2 story colonial era buildings (part of the old Ursulines Convent) are visible.

Infrogmation, 1 month ago to NewOrleans

New Orleans signs: Cats edition

1)St. Claude Avenue, Bywater (iconic!)
2)Faubourg Marigny
3)Mid-City
4)Carrollton Riverbend

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

#NewOrleans #NOLA #signs #cats

Fence gate with wooden sign, hand painted red, yellow and green letters on light blue background. Text: "NO PARKIN' - NO PEEIN' - NO HATIN' - NO CAT SELLIN'"
Colorful sign hand lettered with inconsistent use of capital and small letters, with cartoon drawings of two cats in fighting pose. Text: "NO FiGhting in Here! - NO bad AttituDE DUDEs! & Dudettes! - NO DRUGS - NO HUMBUGS - AbsolutelEy No DiscrimiNATEion ALLOWED! - NO WEAPONS - BE NICE OR LEAVE!"
Hand lettered wood sign, red letters on white white background, with 4 small cartoons of cats in corners. Text: "I DON'T HAVE DUCKS IN A ROW. I HAVE CATS AT A RAVE"

Infrogmation, 1 month ago to Archaeology

BBC: Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741

#Pompeii #Archaeology