Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

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A Place to Die For271 viewsThe northwest corner of the multi-street intersection where Evanston Avenue comes down to join 36th Street and Fremont Place is occupied by this stately tree and a funeral parlor, of which only the parking lot is visible here.Sep 23, 2021
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Shop Fronts230 viewsShops in the Fremont District tend to have original and cute names.Sep 23, 2021
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Red Star Taco Bar243 viewsAn appropriate name and marquee for an eatery just across the street from Lenin Plaza. Lenin would probably have liked tacos.Sep 23, 2021
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Fremont FedEx233 views...FedEx decided to get into a new line of business....?Sep 23, 2021
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Pawnbroker Balls261 viewsThree golden balls are traditionally associated with pawnbrokers. This usage originated in medieval Lombardy, Italy, where merchants hung the balls outside their shops to proclaim their métier. However, there doesn't seem to be any pawnshop here, unless...Sep 23, 2021
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Caught red-handed301 viewsThe arch-revolutionary is caught red-handed with a couple of red-shirted Commie terrorists standing in front of him.Sep 23, 2021
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Lenin Plaza234 viewsThe little plaza behind the statue of Lenin hosts a grinder shop and a Middle Eastern eatery.Sep 23, 2021
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Flames and Guns220 viewsThe sculptural adjuncts surrounding Lenin are supposed to represent flames and guns. The sculptor did not intend this portrayal to be adulatory, but rather critical - he created it at the height of perestroika, just before the collapse of Communism, at a time when such expressions had become permissible.Sep 23, 2021
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The Commies are Coming241 viewsA red-shirted terrorist poses in front of a statue of the head revolutionary.Sep 23, 2021
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What is Lenin doing in Seattle?230 viewsThis 16-foot-tall, 7-ton statue of Lenin was created by a Bulgarian sculptor, Emil Venkov, in 1988 as part of an arts competition. It stood in Czechoslovakia but was toppled in the 1989 revolution and tossed in a junkyard, where it was found and purchased by an American, who brought it to the USA.Sep 23, 2021
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Looking back269 viewsContinuing west on North 36th Street, we arrived at its intersection with Fremont Place and Evanston Avenue, whereupon I turned around and shot this picture of the pleasant shady way we had taken.Sep 23, 2021
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Arrival245 viewsNick, Jane and Sandie congratulate one another on reaching our destination on foot and unscathed, after an arduous and arduous hike of four or five blocks.Sep 23, 2021
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