[Leica] IMG: Daly's Pen Shop

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak 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.

love them all
love the Plankinton Building
which will not be the same without Daly's
which is about the only thing left of the "original merchants"

change is both inevitable and often difficult

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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