[Leica] IMG: Daly's Pen Shop

[amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)]

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:
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Down the hall from the rotunda:
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Interiors:
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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