Archive for the ‘Downtown Pensacola Florida’ Category
Al’s Bicycle Shop …
This is not a Frank Hardy Photograph, but a copy someone had brought us to photograph. I usually only saved something if it interested me and for some reason, this one did. Do not know where this business was located, but it looks as it was downtown Pensacola. Judging by the looks of the old car in the photo, this might have been in the 1920’s or 30’s. If this jars anyone’s memory, please let us know.
Fishing Fleet at “F” Street …
In keeping with the nautical theme, I thought that I would post this one of the fishing fleet down around “F” Street. This is the area where Joe Patti’s Seafood is located today. I would venture to say that some of these boats are from the Patti fleet. On the building in the back “Spearman Brewery” in painted on the back side of the building. This is one of my all – time favorite images that I have ran across in the past several years.
First Methodist Church …
This is the First United Methodist Church on Wright Street and it was made sometime in the 1950’s, maybe 1955. Notice the old lamp post and parking meters that used to be all up and down Wright Street. Also, note the tree that was out front of the church during this time and you can just barely see the old YMCA building in the background on the left side. This image has been run through a Lucis Photoshop filter to bring out the detail in the stone. When I find the original view, I will add it to this post as a comparison. Thanks for looking …
Askin’s Clothiers
This is Palafox back in the 1950’s. Next door is the Lerner Shop … it was a women’s clothing shop that was very popular in it’s day. I do not have much to add to add to this other than the cars are interesting, especially the one with the fins … no idea of the make and model.
St. Michael’s Catholic Church …
This is St. Michael’s Catholic Church in downtown Pensacola on Palafox Street. This image was made in the 1950’s and you can see the side of the San Carlos Hotel on the left in the photo. I have some interior views of the church from various events that I will post later.
Baseball Park …
I am not sure where this fence line was constructed, but I think that this might have been the back fence wall down at Admiral Mason Ball Park. You see the Frank Hardy Photographer panel, the third one from the left. If anyone knows where this might have been made, please let me know. You can tell that the construction of the park is still in progress, since there is no grass in the outfield. Any comments on any of the other businesses are welcomed. Thanks for looking … Frank
What happened to the last site?
For the people out there who have been following “Frank Hardy Made My Photographs” for the past two years, I want to personally thank you for all of your comments and checking back to see what I have been putting up in the past. As for what the reason is for stopping the other blog, it was not me, but Blogger. Since I did not renew my domain name in a timely enough fashion, the domain was placed in “domain purgatory” ( my phrase ). To get my domain name back, I would have had to pay an exorbitant ( to me ) fee and the emails it was going to take was going to be a real headache. So after a great deal of thought, I just decided to start a new blog on WordPress. I started my photography blog Frank Hardy Photo Blog a year ago on WordPress and I like the results, mainly because the photo is so much larger than the one’s I was able to put up on Blogger. And the photographs are what all of this is about, right? I am not foolish enough to believe that people tune in to read my ramblings.
As far as the photo above is concerned, this is a photo made back in 1951 in a parade in downtown Pensacola on Palafox Street. How many of you out there can remember these buildings having this black granite facade? The lady was Miss USA 1951. I will post a link to her in another post, because she has a rather interesting history. Below is the photo as a straight black and white with only minimal Photoshop to clean up the scratches and boost up the contrast. The image above is run through a filter called Topaz to achieve this effect … I also use a filter called Lucis to achieve a similar effect.
The internet does not show the details that the Topaz filter brings out as well as a print does. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to send them to me … I have gotten everything corrected, so if you do write me, your email will not get bounced back to you. Thanks again for all your patience and I do plan on re-posting everything that I had put up on the other site in the future … that is going to take me a while because I had over 230 posts in the two years that I had that site up.
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