2000 block West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Ummm. Who says industry can’t smell good. C.F. Sauer CO
Category: dolls
Sun King
The Sun King had many ailments during his lifetime consistent with diabetes: suppurating periostitis (1678), dental abscesses (1696), recurring boils, fainting spells, gout, dizziness, hot flushes, and headaches (cephalalgias).–Wikipedia
headless
headless mannequins make me slightly uneasy. I guess the idea is to focus attention on the dress? 5th ST SE CHO
Undead yard ornament
Former Slabtown neighbors had cut-out pastel porpoises on a stick welcoming inbound motorists. New neighbors installed an undead thing.
1909
Erected by The Daughters of the Confederacy, Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville to Commemorate the Heroism of the Volunteers of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. (engraving on base of statue)
numerology
how many bubbles? Friday the 13th. Fellini’s #9
Tom Tom Founders Festival
Beer, music, food, people, perfect weather and a Bear in progress (sculptor Ed Miller)
whois
Who is this guy? Was there an outlet, a manufacturer of glorious cause statues in the US at the turn of the century? What kind of rifle? Is he in uniform? Who paid for the statue? How much?
reenactors
Our City is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. That is put into perspective when one sees a 30th generation Japanese rice farmer displaced from ancestral fields by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt.
We don’t have that sort of multi-generational continuity here. We don’t have any 250 year old trees, people get impatient and cut the big ones down. We do have a nuke-u-lar plant the next county over. We care for the parts of our history that don’t interfere with the seamless operation of automobiles.
We are sensitive revisionists, we ask “is the military statuary appropriate?”
We remake the place. We remove the parts that offend. Then we apologize.
snow
Guard doll.