![]() Our first job was to clear out the remnants of the old business before we could start converting the building into liveable apartments. ![]() In fact, my friends and I rented an old warehouse, which for the previous hundred years (at least!) had housed a business in scrap metal and old textile ( "lompen en metalen"): four empty floors, in the middle a hole with double hatches and on the top floor an old, 19th century cast iron pulley-block to haul the wares up and down. I moved into the area in 1972 as one of the first students/outsiders to do so. Since then gentrification has hit the area big time and nowadays it is mostly a yuppy-ish inner city neighbourhood with lots of fancy restaurants, deli’s, shops and galleries. In the early seventies of the last century the Jordaan, Amsterdam’s oldest workers quarter, just outside the ring of canals, was still just that a workers quarter, well known throughout the country for its distinct dialect/language, (sub)culture of music, songs, stories, jokes, kitschy interiors, etc. Besides, I have illustrated the new version of the story here below with numerous extra images, videos, songs and texts, available on the internet today but certainly not then! It's fun to add these to the story which is not only part of my young years but by now may also provide some insight into a disappearing era of Amsterdam history. Second, in the years passed I have come into the possession of more images and even super8 film material of those long gone days in the 1970's when I acquired the board. Look closer via the non-linear notes at the details in the 36 new close-ups and see how the working of time has created countless new abstracts in layers of paint, rust and metal. Look at the original overview from 2005 and compare it to the current one. Why? Two reasons.įirst, the passing of time changes the board slowly but surely. I have now decided to photographically revisit the board. ![]() The set both told a story from my personal history and also led the viewer via non-linear notes through different detail images of cast iron, rust, peeling paint and decay. It's main picture, the general overview of the signboard, no less than 17.762 times. As of today (May 16th) that set has been viewed 2498 times. In 2005, when internet 2.0 was still young and I was a new, enthousiastic flickr-fan, I uploaded a set of pictures of and about a beautiful old signboard I have been carrying around with me since 1972. INTERNETARCHIVE.HOMMAGE TO AN OLD CAST-IRON SIGNBOARD - REVISITED, MAY 2012.University of Michigan personal webpages.Claranet Netherlands Personal Web Pages.Time was short, discovery inefficient ArchiveTeam could only do a partial grab. īrute force discovery: started early 2014 October, stopped. We look forward to sharing news of our upcoming launches, and thank you for being a part of our community.ĭownloading content discovered from Google/Bing results: started, finished. To download content you’ve created with Qwiki, please use the following link, and enter your Qwiki username/password: This means the Qwiki app will be retired Nov 1, 2014. Now, we’re hard at work creating new products for Yahoo! users. We are writing today with an important update from Qwiki.Īs you may remember, our team joined Yahoo! in July 2013.
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