[Leica] IMG: Daly's Pen Shop

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

lots of fun

the opening stairway looks like a clockwork

ric


On Jun 9, 2013, at 1:57 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote:

> While in downtown Milwaukee, I stopped at Daly's Pen Shop, which calls 
> itself the country's oldest pen shop, to buy some ink for my fountain 
> pens.  It has been in the Plankinton Building, which is now part of an 
> urban mall, since 1924, but the The Shops at Grand Avenue is struggling, 
> and can't compete with suburban shopping centers, so the store will be 
> moving to a location on the outskirts of the city.  I took a series of 
> pictures to remember the place by, and I thought they came out so well 
> that I would post them.  The employee I talked to wasn't sure if all the 
> elaborate fixtures could be moved so I wanted to document the ambiance.  
> The place occupied a first floor location from 1924 to about 1999 that was 
> even more ornate, but I never was able to photograph that.
> 
> Here's the rotunda of the Plankinton Building, which was blended with new 
> construction to form the Grand Avenue in 1982:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_1.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_2.jpg.html>
> 
> Down the hall from the rotunda:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_3.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_4.jpg.html>
> 
> Interiors:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_5.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_6.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_7.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_8.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_9.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_10.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_11.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_12.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/Daly_s_Pen_Shop_AMR_13.jpg.html>
> 
> They can be looked at large.   I think they look decent, considering the 
> small sensor of my Lumix LX3.
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA POY 1978
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> 
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> 
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