Whoopi’s reaction to O’Reilly
(Source: bbbarze)
I want to see this movie…
[video]
by +Noa+
(Source: sombreboite)
i really have enjoyed primping myself as I get ready to go to a wedding to take pictures. I started prepping too early, so now I am making things up to continue making myself feel good. me gustaba
Okay, I just finished up watching the “Top Ten Most Valuable” Antique Roadshow finds on YouTube. Sad, but awesome that I was entertained by such a senior citizen pass-time.
Final Assignment - ARTS 1702
19 Bar - Mpls., MN
The oldest running Gay Bar in Minneapolis and the United States of America.
This assignment was open to each person in the class to plan out what he/she wanted to accomplish. For the assignment we needed to shoot a total of at least 100 pictures to put onto a CD and then chose five to Photoshop and print out using printers to present.
At first I wanted to photograph the “Firsts of Minneapolis”. I wanted to show the history and amount of time a specific landmark had been in its place. I had planned out five locations and after going to two of them I found it very difficult and time consuming to be able to do so. After conferencing with my (great) teacher, he told me that I could take a different direction and only take photographs of the bar which I had already started that day.
… Off I went to snap more photos of the bar full of history and stories.
In 1952, the bar was officially opened to the Gay community. Before this, in the 1920’s, the location was a “speak easy” for people in society. Throughout its time, it has been in the hands of many different groups of people.
$1.75 Mugs-a-beer
This photo sticks out to me. It really speaks for itself; the American flag is overlapped by a neon-Pride sign showing the presence of Gay people in this country and the undoubted knowledge that their/our presence is not going anywhere.
This photo of Queen Elizabeth looks out of place on the wall of this bar but it was placed for a significant reason. When it was opened in ‘52, Elizabeth had been crowned the queen of England. It is funny that they have this there. The two times I was there, the bartenders pointed it out to me and the reasoning for its placement.
This is Ivan, a shy & quiet bar tender who I kept company while he was setting up the bar around 2PM last Tuesday afternoon. We were on the steps to the patio which used to be the entrance to the bar back in the day. He told me history about the bar and how in the 20’s before it was an official bar, it used to be a “speak easy”. In the 70’s it was a place where “pimps and gangsters hung out with a lot of drugs.”