#stillexists

How wild is it that every version of you probably still exists still, somewhere, in someone’s memory. The messy you crying on the floor still exists in your mind. The happy sun soaked you, exists in your best friend’s memory. No part of you has died, all parts of us exist always, simultaneously and hidden.

Okay enough suspense. I went to the last Sears! Well almost. One site says there are 22 left, another says 43, and Wikipedia says 17. It’s inside my early childhood mall. My swing set was probably purchased here and my roller skates and possibly my canopy bed. If nothing from your childhood came from a Sears you are either 2 months old or a liar. Extinguish that pants fire. Let’s go to Sears. Just like the Brady’s. #sears #stillexists #lastofitskind #unicorn #sunvalleymall https://www.instagram.com/p/CpV7HVYypgX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Postcards from the Past (2.0): Birks’ elegant #edwardian masterpiece, (1913 -1974) A delicately adorned & finely proportioned #architectural gem, purpose built for Canada’s Finest Purveyors of Luxury & Jewelry, Henry Birks & Sons, (Montréal). Architects Somervell & Putnam rose to the occasion, w/ #design #inspired by Louis Sullivan’s influential “Chicago School”/ “... Style” & Chicago’s Fair “City Beautiful Movement”* (See below) ____|💎🏛💎|____ “Everybody loved the Birks’ Building,”~ Dal Richards, (legend/ Big Band Leader) “The corner rounded (curved) glass windows all the way up ... for years, a familiar meeting place: ‘Meet you at the Birks’ clock!’ people often said.” ___|📝|___ #vintagepostcard notes: "Birks Building & Vancouver Block. c.1913. [main image by: Valentine & Sons' Pub. Co., Ltd. 🇬🇧] Location: 718 Granville @ W. Georgia. #built 1912-13. #demolished: 1974; made way for Vancouver Centre Mall & ScotiaBank Tower (see # 10 / model). Public outrage over threat of its loss sparked voracious heated outcry & launched Vancouver's heritage conservation era 1976 onwards... • Also (photo R): Vancouver Block, 736 Granville St. Built 1910-12; (extant) #stillexists Architects: Parr & Fee. - inspired by “White City” aka “City Beautiful Movement”* - this 14-storey wedding cake 'skyscraper' still reaches skyward; Its 76.2m/250 ft. height (to top of neonlit clock) slowly eclipsed by rising tide of glass giants. * footnote: #architecturalhistory - #citybeautifulmovement refs. a period of #neoclassical #architecture (~>WWI) hence, #citybeautiful #inspired , in part, by 1893 #chicagoworldsfair ~ Columbian Exposition & Paris’ #beauxarts || #designinspiration : “Cities ought aspire to a higher aesthetic value for all.” A fundamental idea urged #urbanplanning to treat cities not merely as products/symbols of commerce & industrialization, but to champion “civitas” enhanced civic environments w/ classical aesthetics/order (Greco-Roman), graced by parks/gardens & dignity of well-planned urban realms. #vintagevancouver #heritagevancouver #birksbuilding #vancouverhistory #urbanhistory #smallstudiodesign (at Vancouver Centre Mall)

FAKE STATEHOOD DAY. I refuse to acknowledge and celebrate today as if it wasn't an injustice done to my people. I'm celebrating my 5 years of business here in Hawaii but that has nothing to do with my Blood sweat and tears I put into creating a successful business that I'm getting raped in Taxes also. Sure you can say that's the price of doing business but it's also a slap in the face to know my success is funding corruption and even the bombing and pollution of our island in Pohakuloa. People need to wake up and stop saying there's nothing we can do about it because that's exactly what there hoping and expecting us to do. Shit is ridiculous and sorry for ranting on here but once in a while I need to get this stuff of my chest. #mahalokeakua #protectmaunakea #freehawaii #farmersmarkethawaii #hawaiiankingdom #stillexists please follow my favorite feed on ig which is @naneaarmstrongwassel (at Honolulu, Hawaii)