Eight Cent Shoe Repair, in downtown Peoria, Illinois - yesterday and today. A folky commercial relic in 1989, and a fading pop culture fossil in 2012.
Consider Your Culture as Artifact
Saturday, August 18, 2012
A 23-Year Fade
Eight Cent Shoe Repair, in downtown Peoria, Illinois - yesterday and today. A folky commercial relic in 1989, and a fading pop culture fossil in 2012.
Friday, August 3, 2012
A Dead Drive-in and Resurrected Intermission Sounds
One more dead drive-in before the summer closes. This
is the Airway Drive-In, in St. Ann, Missouri (now an old suburb of St. Louis).
I shot these as they were taking the thing down in 1990. However, the developer
left the lovely marquee standing. It was repurposed for the shopping center
that was built on the site of the theater. A nice bit of retail
postmodernism…
On the subject of drive-in
decay, the Fossil Aerosol Mining Project is working on a new set of recordings
that reconfigure badly damaged segments of audio from drive-in theater
intermission films. Decomposed jingles, big splices, and artificially mutated
refreshment slogans. You can have a listen HERE
More songs about the artificially-enhanced past tense……
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