Traveling or Not?

[JimFox]

I met up with Dave (Thorhammer) last Friday evening for a bit of Street and City photography in the port city of Long Beach in SoCal. Here is a scene we came across pretty early in our shooting. The contrast between the Traveling words and the apparently non traveling RV was interesting.

This was processed with an assist at the end by Topaz Textures.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

PS. We will be doing this again sometime in the future so anyone else in SoCal who wants to join up with us be sure to let us know.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice. That RV looks better than some of the ones along streets in Portland that homeless folks are using.

 

[David S]

This came out great! Mine not as good I don't think, I was talking too much to shoot

I found out from wikipedia :

Acres of Books was a large independent bookstore in downtown Long Beach, California.

The business was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1927 by Bertrand Smith. In 1934 Smith moved to California and established the store in Long Beach; he moved to the current address in 1960. Acres of Books was the largest and oldest family-owned second-hand bookstore in California, claiming to have in stock over one million books.

In 1959 Smith gave to the people of Long Beach a collection of rare books, some dating back to the 15th century. Included in the collection is a two volume facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, all of which is housed as part of the Loraine and Earl Burns Miller Special Collections Room at the main branch of the Long Beach public library.

In 1990 Acres of Books was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the City of Long Beach.

In its long history Acres of Books has served clientele such as Jack Vance, Upton Sinclair, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens, James Hilton, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Paul Schrader, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Easton, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton, Larry McMurtry, and, most notably, Ray Bradbury, who immortalized the bookstore in an essay entitled "I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic".

 

[JimFox]

This came out great! Mine not as good I don't think, I was talking too much to shoot

I found out from wikipedia :

Acres of Books was a large independent bookstore in downtown Long Beach, California.

The business was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1927 by Bertrand Smith. In 1934 Smith moved to California and established the store in Long Beach; he moved to the current address in 1960. Acres of Books was the largest and oldest family-owned second-hand bookstore in California, claiming to have in stock over one million books.

In 1959 Smith gave to the people of Long Beach a collection of rare books, some dating back to the 15th century. Included in the collection is a two volume facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, all of which is housed as part of the Loraine and Earl Burns Miller Special Collections Room at the main branch of the Long Beach public library.

In 1990 Acres of Books was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the City of Long Beach.

In its long history Acres of Books has served clientele such as Jack Vance, Upton Sinclair, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens, James Hilton, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Paul Schrader, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Easton, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton, Larry McMurtry, and, most notably, Ray Bradbury, who immortalized the bookstore in an essay entitled "I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic".

Awesome Dave! Thanks so much for the added history to this one, that is very interesting.

 

[Bob Denton]

Very nice.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

A great photograph with an amazing history. Thanks for the post, Jim and the history, Dave..

 

[JimFox]

Thanks so much Doug. It was a fun find as we started out our photo journey that evening.