Monday, August 11, 2014

E. L. Moore's 1959 residence today

The text below the photo of E. L. Moore's balloon-blimp listed his address as Apt 4, 712 N Pine St., Charlotte 6, N. C. This being the 21th century I entered the address into Google Street Views, and that little 'A' in the photo apparently marks what is there today. 

The more I read and get familiar with the old issues of Model Trains, the more it seems like a paleo form of blogging and blog aggregation: street addresses of contributors and correspondents abound and stand-in for email addresses; the writing is friendly, informal, confident and unforced; there's lots of pictures of readers projects that they built themselves; ads of course; articles - or posts - on complete projects that readers can undertake themselves if they want. Of course it works on different time-scale than today's blogging, but that's just a limitation of the technology of the time. There's always something interesting, and I'm looking forward to future binge reading.

2 comments:

  1. I'm with you on that. Model Trains may not have represented the state-of-the-art, but it captured all the charm and warmth E. L. Moore was known for.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Model Trains had a very different spin on things than one sees today in the mainstream press.

      Delete