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Really good one. So the building's owner either respects the ghost sign or is too cheap to do anything about it. Oh, and I've prayed for a good plumber.
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Ghost signs
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Really good one. So the building's owner either respects the ghost sign or is too cheap to do anything about it. Oh, and I've prayed for a good plumber.
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Sign from over 100 years ago.
Hot Wells:
A sulfur-laden artesian spring was found on the site in 1892. Two years later, a bathhouse and hotel followed under the direction of developer McClellan Shacklett. Hot Wells claimed its waters would benefit persons with diseases of the skin, liver, and kidney as well as those with
rheumatism. The popularity of sulfur waters was big.
Streetcars brought guests from downtown San Antonio. At its peak, Hot Wells was likened to other such resorts in Karlsbad, Germany and in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
In 1906, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team conducted its training camp there. A 1911 silent picture, The Fall of the Alamo, was filmed there. The resort attracted such celebrities as film director, Cecil B. DeMille, actors Sarah Bernhardt, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino,
President Theodore Roosevelt and Porfirio Diaz of Mexico
Some celebrities came to the springs in their own rail cars whose tracks are still in use.
Mostly during the Fall in the night although far away, Polo can hear the train whistle.
He makes it a point to wake me up to listen with him,
no matter what time it is.
Hot Wells:
A sulfur-laden artesian spring was found on the site in 1892. Two years later, a bathhouse and hotel followed under the direction of developer McClellan Shacklett. Hot Wells claimed its waters would benefit persons with diseases of the skin, liver, and kidney as well as those with
rheumatism. The popularity of sulfur waters was big.
Streetcars brought guests from downtown San Antonio. At its peak, Hot Wells was likened to other such resorts in Karlsbad, Germany and in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
In 1906, the Cincinnati Reds baseball team conducted its training camp there. A 1911 silent picture, The Fall of the Alamo, was filmed there. The resort attracted such celebrities as film director, Cecil B. DeMille, actors Sarah Bernhardt, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino,
President Theodore Roosevelt and Porfirio Diaz of Mexico
Some celebrities came to the springs in their own rail cars whose tracks are still in use.
Mostly during the Fall in the night although far away, Polo can hear the train whistle.
He makes it a point to wake me up to listen with him,
no matter what time it is.
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Exclusive parking
The Bright Star is the oldest restaurant in Alabama still in operation. At one time their business was booming enough to merit an overflow parking lot 2 blocks away.
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This used to be a grocery store. My grandparents lived right around the corner from here.
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This is a whole ghost building
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Great pics Dale!
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I wonder where people in Bessemer City go for their batteries now? Damn kids with their online shopping.
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No, that's where the pitcher and catcher for the local ball team lived.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
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This one is so ghosty that I’ve driven by it a million times without noticing it. The light was just right this morning...
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Good catch Bob!
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Building's gone to make room for a streetcar barn in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH.
Significance is the beat-up, wall-mount, GE bipolar fan in the picture below. I picked it for $5 from a non-profit salvage group. I did some research and its DC current, pre-1910. I did some additional research and found it's archetype on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It generated quite a bit of interest in the AFCA (a fan collector's forum). I've since traded it for a fan restoration and future consideration.
Significance is the beat-up, wall-mount, GE bipolar fan in the picture below. I picked it for $5 from a non-profit salvage group. I did some research and its DC current, pre-1910. I did some additional research and found it's archetype on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It generated quite a bit of interest in the AFCA (a fan collector's forum). I've since traded it for a fan restoration and future consideration.
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Coke paid a lot of money for that wall over the years -- there's at least four versions of their ad there, and probably more.
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The newspaper dispensing boxes look like they've huddle together for warmth or protection.
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