7up Ad – La Conner, WA – Featured Fade – Fred King

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Hi, Frank-

Attached is a photo I  took in La Conner, Washington last year. I thought you might find it usable for your blog. I apologize for the tilt. I have subscribed to your blog for a year and really enjoy your work.

Best regards,
Fred King

Thanks Fred! Don’t apologize for the tilt! Without it, how would it go down the hatch?

Fred says: Currently 58 years old. I’m a grandfather. I have a chronic illness that has not allowed me to work the past few years. Lots of meds, no cure. Love photography as a hobby and love to write, as therapy of sorts. The blogs I subscribe to and run across are truly inspiring. There is just so much imagery being captured and shared around the world. Visual imagery as well as that evoked in writing. I’m humbled to play a small part in this community.

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Seattle Public Market Sunflowers & Column – Pike Place Market History

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Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, United States. The Market opened August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continually operated public farmers’ markets in the United States. It is a place of business for many small farmers, craftspeople and merchants. Named after the central street, Pike Place runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street, and remains one of Seattle’s most popular tourist destinations.

The Market is built on the edge of a steep hill, and consists of several lower levels located below the main level. Each features a variety of unique shops. Antique dealers, comic book sellers, small family-owned restaurants, while the area contains one of the few remaining head shops left in Seattle. The upper street level contains fishmongers, fresh produce stands and craft stalls operating in the covered arcades. Local farmers and craftspeople sell year-round in the arcades from tables they rent from the Market on a daily basis, in accordance with the Market’s mission and founding goal: allowing consumers to “Meet the Producer.”

Pike Place Market is home to nearly 500 low income residents who live in 8 different buildings throughout the Market. The Market is run by the quasi-government Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA). The Pike Place Market sees 10 million visitors annually. – Wikipedia

Behind the Batik Curtain – Seattle Public Market – Seattle Aquarium

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Seattle’s Sanitary Public Market

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Seattle’s Alternative Transportation Initiative – Bikesmart – I Want To Ride My (Bicycle) – Freddie Mercury

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• Bikesmart – Seattle dot gov

Seattle Service Station Mural Art – Capitol Hill

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Seattle Street Art & Ads – Wheat Paste & Stencil Art – Mad Rad @ Chop Suey – July 24, 2009

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• Mad Rad @ Chop Suey – July 24-25 – Flickr

MAD RAD does “Donut Truck” at Chop Suey

Seattle Violin Busker – Public Market

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Hartford Glass Co. – Automotive Glass & Mirrors – Capitol Hill – Seattle, WA

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Public Market Artist Likes Rosario Dawson – Seattle, WA

Rosario Dawson as Gail in Sin City © Frank H. Jump

• Sin City – Wikipedia

Corkstone Flooring – Builder of Hats – Pentimento – Seattle, WA

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There are several layers on this wall of what I call pentimentos (see Fading Ad Vocabulary). On the right, perhaps I see a saxophone or brass instrument. On the lower left, perhaps I see the word GAS. I can’t make out the manufacturer of the “builder of hats.” Any clues? What do you see?

Sax Anyone? © Frank H. Jump

Gas? © Frank H. Jump

Builder of Hats © Frank H. Jump

Corkstone Flooring Co - Modern Plastic Flooring © Frank H. Jump

Rendezvous Restaurant – Belltown – Seattle, WA

Carpets, Draperies, Furniture, Upholstery © Frank H. Jump

Hotel Fenimore – Holsum Bread – Tom Keene Cigars – Seattle, WA

Broadway and Jefferson © Frank H. Jump

Broadway and Jefferson © Frank H. Jump

Also seen at Ghost Signs of the Last Outpost – Seattle Ghost Signs:

• Holsum
• Tom Keene Cigars

Ash Grove Cement Company – Seattle, WA

3801 E Marginal Way S • Seattle, Washington © Frank H. Jump

A Year Ago Today –  Friday, December 12, 2008

Worker Rescued at Ash Grove Cement Company

A man who was buried up to his waist in dry cement at Ash Grove Cement on East Marginal Way South is rescued. The man was conscious when rescuers responded to the accident around 11:30 a.m. – The Seattle Times (CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW)

Vertigo Building – Seattle, WA

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• Seattle Times Magazine – October 19, 2003
• Lord Tao – deviantART