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558 DeKoven St, Chicago IL (ca.1949) I bumped into this collection of 1,241 color slide photo's from Chicago via a similar collection of Charles W Cushman's intriguing period snapshots of New York, ca.1940-1960. His work was all meticulously documented shooting journals that were acquired along with his equipment and collection by the Indiana University Archives. In his journals Cushman gives dates and locations down to the cross streets, and in some instances even the house number has been included. However over the years entire streets have vanished from Chicago in the name of blight prevention or progress, we've gained highways and exuberant but lonely fields of parking but have sadly broken the the long straight line of history between Cushman's journals and our experience. But the photographs are still here, preserved in uneasy colors. The photograph was taken in 1949 it's subject was likely 558 DeKoven St, the building on the left. The backyard...

fig.1) impromptu dutch injected work sheet  The envelope in her hand is neither warm nor fresh. It's been sliced open along the top, revealing a sheet of yellow paper folded up inside. She's holding it like a wet spider, but its no surprise when Stanley takes it from her. Pree looks at him, she doesn't like what she sees. Stanley is a rigid and cantankerous wind. The hairy ball of his belly is a brutal announcement that he's had something defenseless for lunch. After off handedly declaring, "it's more similar to math then economics," he was escorted to Afterfollow and then sent by train to Glory Hollow. Pree thinks of him as being fish-like and hammer dull. Someone that arrives late and lingers too closely over the cake pile. Something which he's frequently points out, is not a crime. Ta-Da future Monstre, From us Nude Robot's of Shape cast into the Great-Pit of the Beyondniks. From us simple and sweet consumers of Socks-n-Roxx from boxe...