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onyxlynx ([personal profile] onyxlynx) wrote in [community profile] shutterspeed2011-02-27 07:31 pm

Time Has Come Today

Which is to say, I finally remembered to take the camera with me on my walk.  I seem to have gone in the wrong direction for purple.

Way back when the earth was just cooling and I was in high school, there were a lot of clocks out in public:  Freestanding clocks on sidewalks, clocks as part of building façades, digital display clocks at banks.  Timepieces all over the place.  Not so many now, which is unfortunate when one has forgotten one's phone.

Anyway, they don't make them like this anymore.



There's probably a story somewhere.


the_future_modernes: a yellow train making a turn on a bridge (Default)

[personal profile] the_future_modernes 2011-02-28 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Anyway, they don't make them like this anymore.

No they dont. Thats gorgeous!!!
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[personal profile] darkemeralds 2011-02-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a classic beauty.

I miss public clocks too, even though I don't actually need them. Now they're all embedded in scrolling electronic bus schedules and flashing weather boards. Not pretty.