Empty store

This long closed store has been re-purposed as a dollar store.  These "3d relaxed mode" photos of the interior were taken after the store had been emptied.

Store interior, No.1

Store interior, No. 2

Removal of the store contents revealed the previously hidden color schemes.

Two views one store

Store left wall

Store upstage center

When you are not sure which view is the better, photograph them both! 

These two stereographs of an empty storefront are presented in relaxed view 3d.

 

Electric gansett

 

Now called by another name

This cross hatched manhole cover is seen in the street beneath our feet.  The company identity oval interrupts the orderly layout of the "=", "-", and "|" elements that are used in the design of this utility cover.  

 

Originally called the United Electric Power Company, the name was changed to that seen on the manhole cover on November 30, 1927.  This cover would have been produced some time after that. 

 

 

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The comment by anon at 12:37:00 intrigued me to look up that reference.  Hi Nabor is "your Home Grown Supermarket - since 1963" in Baton Rouge.  It has three locations.  In Google Street View, each store has a white vehicle standing in front of the store on the left side:

pickup truck

BRPD cruiser

sedan

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Stamp and coin

Former stamp and coin store

This empty store front was a philatelic and numismatic store in a previous life.

Three quarters view

The store is partially encased in the hillside.

Three quarters of a relaxed view 3d stereograph

The 3/4 view of the storefront is presented in a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

Trusses and turnbuckles

The exterior of this store was previously seen here.  With that left window now uncovered, one can peer inside as the store is being renovated.

Trusses under the beam

What is interesting about this store interior is not that it is a work in progress, nor all the doors and stairways at the back, but the rod trusses and turnbuckles below the beam that are holding the building together.

 

Corner store windows

The bricked up window

Corner stores often had windows on the side street side of the store.  As these became inconvenient, they would be bricked up.  The bricks and masonry work never matches that of the original wall.  Here, swirls from the almost-removed graffiti add color and movement to the brick patterns.

 

The patient model

The next window, around the corner from the store entrance, has also been worked, as the brickwork shows.  Inside, the mannequin model awaits the next fashion trend.

Bare to the walls

 

Nothing left behind

With the closure of a store, the interior was gutted to the bare walls, leaving behind an empty storefront. 

 

Most of the items on the outside back wall were also removed. 

 

Red sign left behind

The red "Video Recording In Progress" sign was left behind, reminding the casual passerby that video recordings are in progress.

 

 

Empty 3d interior

A relaxed view 3d stereograph of the interior is provided for the stereogrammers.  

 

 

 

  

Just relaxing

 

Lounging at the store

The sidewalk in front of a closed and shuttered 99 cent store is good place to stop for a rest on a hot and sunny day. 

Plastic basket

Plastic basket window display

This display window that is filled with plastic baskets is at the rear of the dollar store.

There are 45 courses of brick visible on the left side of the window and 46 courses visible on the right side.  That does not explain why the left side seems higher than the right side.

N.B.  The interior of this store, prior to becoming this "dollar store" can be seen here.

Delivery door

Delivery door logo

The delivery door of a paint store sports a different logo than the one above the front door.

SW store with corporate logo  

The hand-painted door logo almost has a graffiti like feel to it.

Store with mirror

Store interior with mirror

The lines on the walls, the ceiling, and the floor exaggerate the depth of the empty storefront shown in this "3d relaxed mode" stereograph.

Three over two

Store front in vertical rectangles 

At one time, the front glass of this empty store was "three over one".  When those large glass panes were broken, they would be replaced with smaller panes that were cheaper to buy and replace.  Here the result is a "three over two" look which accentuates the overall effect of vertical rectangles.

Door pull 

Despite the look of the door pull and lock, the front door is well secured.  Of note is the ergonomic placement of the pull handle in relation to the thumb latch.

Hidden grafitti

 

What's that say?

 

Written on the steel basement doors of a discount store, and hidden by the store's outdoor merchandise stand, years later this graffiti remains pristine, and, still as undecipherable as when it was first written.

 

 

Empty store 2

Empty store

Another empty storefront, in relaxed 3d mode.  The 3d is very deep.

Ninety nine cents neon

Ninety nine cent store sign

A relaxed view 3d image of the neon sign in a "99 cents" store.

Impersonation Of A Lady

"Impersonation of a Lady" was published by Maude Parker in 1934.  

Title page

Page 1 of "Impersonation of a Lady" 

Inside front cover with with library book plate and book store sticker 

The Redwood Library of Newport, Rhode Island acquired the book through the Bookshop for Boys & Girls, a book store operated by the Women's Educational & Industrial Union, then located at 270 Boylston Street in Boston.   

Colophon with Cutter catalog number and dedication page with acquisition date stamp 

The book was copyrighted by Maude Parker on August 28, 1934; the edition notice page lists the copyright to Maude Parker Pavenstedt, her married name.  Born on July 30, 1892, she passed on November 12, 1959.  Her husband, Edmund W. Pavenstedt, renewed the copyright on  September 5, 1961.

The Redwood Library entered the book into its holdings on November 3, 1934 under the catalog number P2272i, using the Cutter classification system.  The copyright page shows their unique cataloging system. 

Inside back cover due dates and library rules

The book was first borrowed on November 10, 1934 and enjoyed seemingly constant readership for the next year, until November 2, 1935.  The book was then borrowed once in 1939 and twice in each calendar years of 1944, 1946, 1961, and 1966.  After enjoying some thirty two plus years on the library shelves, "Impersonation of a Lady" was withdrawn.  

Pasted in the inside back cover of the book are the "Selections From The Rules" of the Redwood Library.  Some of the rules of note are that:  overdue book fines increase the longer a book is overdue; not paying the overdue fines will debar one from the library; books cannot be lent to anyone outside the borrower's house; and, the very explicit defacement and damage criteria and consequences.

Nothing is known of the books whereabouts until late 2019.  Then, the book appeared in the donation box for used books that are resold by a library.  Deemed not salable nor donatable, it was relegated to the recycling bin; its story is told here.

Green heads

Waiting in the shade

Green cabbages await their fate at the corner fruit and vegetable store.

Located on the south side of the store, the heads are sheltered from direct sunlight by shade from an overhanging roof; sunlight reflected from the sidewalk provides the high light from below.  

Grey walls

 

Doorways

 

This empty store front beckons a look inside.  Presented as a 3d relaxed view stereograph.

 

Only helping

Folding step ladder and cardboard

The folding step ladder in the store display window allows the shop keeper to put products high up on the display shelves.  Neither the ladder itself, nor the flattened cardboard boxes protecting the floor of the display window, are for sale.

Reflective reflection

Multiflection

The building across the street and the sky and clouds and the utility wires are reflected in the plate glass of the store front window and in the curlicue-filamented light bulb.