I've been home-bound for the past week. I am board out of my head. I am ordered not to do anything and so I sit around doing just that. I am on my second to last pain pill and the pain isn't as bad as it was yesterday. I guess the magic of these little pills are wearing off. I took mostly Tylenol yesterday and dealt with a little discomfort. I'm okayI've spent the last three days cleaning up old images of Gadsden and posting them to a new facebook group called Downtown Gadsden. No sooner than I launched the group did I have it's first member. I don't know how he found me that quick - but there was a citizen there in the new group. By the end of the day there were over 60 members. I had about 150 members the second day and almost 300 yesterday. It's kind of funny. I dug up more photos and have posted well over a 100 images - mostly from postcards. It's been a pleasant distraction while I'm on the mend.
The above image is one I found on-line of the White Palace Cafe downtown. I haven't posted it at the Downtown Gadsden group. I am trying to post primarily old stuff. I ran this cafe image through PhotoShop and I am right pleased with the result. I call it Cafe Ghost. One day I'll take a camera downtown and take my own photograph of the cafe and rebuild this idea so that the graphic content will all be mine. Cafe Ghost to me reflects how I feel about this town - these old buildings and their histories.
I hope you get well soon. I looked at that building last Friday morning... It's nice and I wonder why it's not being used? I love your new group on Facebook, Gadsden is a great city.
ReplyDeleteGlad you are enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteI heard that the old White Palace Cafe has some kind of sewage problem. It's my understanding (I may be wrong) that the Leasor wasn't going to pay for the repairs. I might be wrong - but it's a beautiful building and wish that a restaurant were there.
The last time I ate at The White Palace Cafe was in the early eighties with my friend Doug Moore. We went there for lunch only a few weeks before he left town to study at Asbury College.