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Post by kerouac2 on May 13, 2020 14:19:25 GMT
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2020 23:56:31 GMT
Perfection!
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Post by lugg on May 15, 2020 9:25:19 GMT
Lovely image -
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 13, 2020 14:06:06 GMT
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Post by bjd on Sept 13, 2020 14:19:23 GMT
It's great that after all those years in Paris, you still look around and find interesting pictures to take! I like that Saint Frères building.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 13, 2020 14:50:22 GMT
And if I had taken a picture including the ground level, you would see that there is a Prêt à Manger outlet there now. Saint Frères was the #1 textile company in France in the 19th century and their principal product at first was burlap and then they moved on to other industrial fibres. It was such a big company that it built its own industrial railway to link its production sites in Picardy. The Saint family were also very paternalist due to their doctrine of social Catholicism (housing, crèches, health care for the employees, etc.). The building in my photograph is their corporate headquarters from 1896. The decline began in 1936 but the company was still profitable until 1950. It was bought by a competitor in 1978 but the company went bankrupt in 1981. One of the final owners was LVMH - Moët-Hennessy Louis Vuitton, but it sold it in 1988 and the new owner went bankrupt in 2000, leading to the final liquidation. So many of the grand buildings in the big cities of Europe have amazing stories to tell.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 13, 2020 14:53:44 GMT
As for Le Chat Noir, I thought that that little café at Châtelet had died from covid since it never reopened. But today I was waiting at the bus stop across the street from it and there were people working inside to get ready for reopening, I suppose.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 14, 2020 0:51:01 GMT
Well, as you know, I'm always in the corner of les chats noirs, and these days, even more les chattes noires. (After my matou noir died after a very long run).
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 14, 2020 2:48:24 GMT
Wonderful sequence, Kerouac, that looks steeped in history. I love that first one because it's so classically, romantically >>Paris<<. But that beautifully sedate old building with the neon detective agency sign is just out of the world, especially with your treatment of it. Nice!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 2, 2021 17:31:12 GMT
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Post by BigIain on Mar 3, 2021 17:38:18 GMT
Brilliant, K. I had forgotten how much I love your trips around Paris.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 4, 2021 7:55:42 GMT
Great shots - I particularly like the photo of the white new -looking grave in comparison to the old moss encrusted one in the foreground. The magnificent buildings that are so typical of Paris make a lovely contrast to the center tree.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2021 8:02:25 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Mar 28, 2021 15:50:10 GMT
Great time to visit Montmartre without hordes of (other) tourists. I always favoured early morning visits.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2021 20:13:35 GMT
Yes ~ a blast from the past. Love the red door picture and the two b&ws with the snaggly tree.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2022 11:53:40 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2022 13:38:23 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2022 13:42:39 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2022 20:34:41 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Aug 23, 2022 17:41:04 GMT
I like this latest tranche of images. It's fun to guess where the ones that aren't obvious were taken.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 23, 2022 17:49:54 GMT
Actually, all of these photos were taken within about 300 metres of each other.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 23, 2022 17:55:56 GMT
Actually, all of these photos were taken within about 300 metres of each other. I've taken photos nearby but yours are nicer.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 23, 2022 18:41:09 GMT
Thanks, but it's all a question of being in the right place at the right time. Rue Tholozé (the last 4 photos) is a favourite of mine since it is the locatioo of the Studio 28, one of the oldest cinemas in Paris (more than 100 years old). I used to go there all the time because they generally have advanced screenings on Tuesday of movies coming out on Wednesday. In my days, Samuel Lachize (1925-2006), the film critic of l'Humanité, the Communist daily in Paris, was in charge of the debates, so they were quite animated.
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