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Soon to be lost…
By Silver Blue
…to the march of time.
Norfolk, VA. Granby Street. The Riverview Theater.
From http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1598 :
Closed theater; 1 screen. 685 seats.
Photo from when it was open: (this is from the cinematreasures site)
Another classic Norfolk movie house, the Riverview Theatre was a roadshow theatre that kept a reserved seat policy and showed 70mm films such as “Cleopatra”, “Lawrence of Arabia” & “The Sound of Music”. In later years, the Riverview Theatre became a live theater venue.
Supposedly, from the comments on that site, the theater has been (or soon will be) condemned. It was on the market (with a far, far too small parking lot) for a little over $770,000.
I just … I feel sad that places like this, though they are small, are discarded due to “bigger, better, etc.” People seem to have no desire to preserve the past.
Therefore, I will bid a fond, yet early farewell to a theatre that I never set foot in, yet seemed to have a lot of character (and I’m sure, in its early days, lots of class, too!)
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/onasill/4011016591/ I found the following two photos, where the marquee had all of the lights!
(You can see the glass doors here that had been painted with the Riverview logo…)
and…
The sand keeps creeping through the hourglass…
Soon… all we’ll be left with are photographs, and cookie cutter buildings and places to go.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/s-lp.mp3]Silver Blue, who misses the past so very, very much.
Taking the night off.
By Silver Blue
Sorry folks, but I’ve been in the heat all day at the Botanical Gardens. Had a blast, but the heat has gotten to me. So… I’ll give you two photos to tide you over:
Three beauties in a row…
And an egret in flight.
Okay. Okay. Two more. The stone lions I’m so fond of:
and a solo shot:
I think I boiled my brain today. Still…. the beauty of the 903 photos I took (and am still sorting through) will be with me long after the season has passed. 🙂
Silver Blue… who looks at every new day as an adventure!
In the garden…
By Silver Blue
So, I’m late getting into the container garden thing this year. I normally start from seeds, but one thing or another got in the way this year and so… the container garden was from fully sprouted plants. I chose to go container garden because I can walk out the front door and harvest, instead of out the front door, around the house to the back forty and then fight ‘skeeters, etc.
Two container tomatoes…with cages, and … blooms!
Four new rosemary plants! (If only I could figure how some people have them as perennials and not annuals, I could save some $$.
Three German thyme.
Sweet Basil, Plants 1-3.
Sweet Basil 4-6.
…and Sweet Basil 7-9. I grow a lot of basil because I LOVE PESTO. I make a really mean grilled pesto pizza with Parmesan cheese.
Mexican thyme. I believe in having an international garden. 🙂
Finally…
Common Sage. Yes, the name on the little tag says “Common Sage”. What would make it “uncommon sage”? If it could sing and dance?
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/eytwc.mp3]Silver Blue, who looks forward to the bounty of tasty goodness this will provide, plus, being able to water the plants and enjoy them in the stillness of morning.
A three-peat.
By Silver Blue
I’ve been blessed in winning the Outstanding Classified Staff Member of the Year award three times where I work.
1998-99:
Presented by Dean J. Taylor Sims.
2006-07:
Presented by Dr. Michael T. Zugelder.
2011-12:
Presented by Mr. John F. Keeling, Jr.
Maybe Patti Labelle is right.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/tawiy.mp3]Silver Blue, who bids you peace, happiness, and the ability to find the winner in you.
Take me back to my childhood
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2Well, almost. I had an unexpected treat yesterday when in a candy store, I spied:
Fruit Stripe Gum!!!! This, Hubba Bubba, Bubblicious, Freshen Up (The Gum That goes SQUIRT!), Bazooka, and Chicklets were all the gum of my youth. Sure, there was Juicy Fruit, DoubleMint, and others, but…these were the ones that I remember most fondly, and I’d not seen in almost 35 years.
Silver Blue, who has sometimes, the past can be delicious.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
By Silver Blue
A new show at Festhaus, Busch Gardens, Williamsburg called “Entwined” which has a number of fairy tales mixed together. Of course, Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf are part of the story…
I can’t imagine … perhaps the person in the full body costume has some experience being a mascot because they had no problems dancing and acting out in the outfit.
I think the Lederhosen are a nice touch.
Contemplative wolf.
“I said,” said Red, “You don’t scare me!”
Besides, good wolves get skritchies behind the ears. 🙂
Part of the Finale number.
I saw the show when it was still being fine tuned. This was much better.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/a-cw.mp3]Silver Blue, who is pleased the photos turned out so well without flash. There will be more to come!
We are family…
By Silver Blue
…well, so to speak. These are the current two animal companions of my mom & dad:
Left, is Diva, a pekinese/Lhasa apso mix, and right, Miette, a teacup chihuahua.
As close to sisters as I’m going to come, being an only child.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/iwad.mp3]Silver Blue, who says, Yes, these are the dogs I house sit when my parents are out of town.
But you know I can’t come with you…
By Silver Blue
….for I’ll always be scared of heights.
11 random photos of Toronto and Niagara Falls (Canadian) from 2001:
ScotiaBank. If you haven’t gathered, this post is about tall buildings and heights. I wish I could tell you what these other buildings are, but I just simply don’t know. 11 years has washed away a great deal of memory.
Loved the deco style construction on the top of this building.
The way these three buildings lined up … still makes me smile for some reason. It just, in my mind, works.
This is the “New City Hall”. I know what that tall building is. 🙂
This, therefore, is the “Old City Hall”. 🙂 I was surprised to see seagulls on the lawn!
Nothing like looking down into the Toronto Skydome stadium from way up in the CN tower!
Me, on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls (the horseshoe falls).
Finally, me with Misty Bear, mascot of the Maidens of the Mist ships that go up to the falls.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/soh.mp3]“You lift me up into the sky, feels like I could fly, never gonna die,
And I almost made it, but not quite.
Now you’re flying out of sight, and you know I can’t come with you,
I’ll always be scared of heights.”
Silver Blue…who looks back in wonder…and smiles.
Gotta get back to the simple life again.
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On the way out of Kenton, Ohio, en route to Columbus is a “restored” Gulf Service station. I’m pretty sure it didn’t start off selling “That Good Gulf Gasoline”, and in fact, it most likely never sold gasoline at all.
Still. The colours, the…the everything. I doubt it was a house (I didn’t go up and peek in the windows), but whatever it was… was classy.
My passion is photography. The passion of others certainly includes restoration of historical artifacts.
They even advertised “Squirt” soda on the door! LOL.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/ej-sl.mp3]Silver Blue, who really DOES miss a lot of the simple life.
I blame you for the moonlit sky….
By Silver Blue
….and the dream that died with the eagle’s flight…
Don’t blame this sleeping satellite….
Actually, I didn’t take these photos. My mom did, in northern New Hampshire, October 6, 2006. I’m so proud of her (using a point and shoot) that I had to highlight them as a blog post. They’re beautiful. Like my mom is.
She has…well, in her words, she inherited her eye for photographs from me. (A sort of reverse inheritance, perhaps?)
We’re coming up on a full moon soon… time for me to sharpen my skills further. Perhaps I’ll be luckier this month! 🙂
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/ta-ss.mp3]Silver Blue… who feels at times that I boldly go where few have gone before (though I know better)
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