-----///\\------Please
----///--\\\----put this
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---|||-- -|||---profile if
---|||-- -|||---you know
----\\\--///----someone
-----\\\///-----who is living with, survived
------///\-----or has passed away from
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----///--\\\---Thank you

I post this cancer ribbon in honor of my flickr friend, gem66, a rare gem indeed.


A bit about me: I guess you could say I live in the past. I love all things old....houses, signs, businesses, books, illustration, records, advertising, schools, libraries, people, etc. I am an obnoxiously diehard preservationist. I also love NPR and the fine arts...music, dance, live theater & the visual arts. I play piano, and grew up in the world of classical music, but also have a great passion for jazz (not smooth jazz, but Miles, Trane, Cannonball, Diz, Bird, the Duke, Mingus, Oscar Peterson and many, many others).

I am the administrator, co-admin or a moderator of the following groups:

Kids' Records
Mother Goose Illustration
Vintage Home Interiors
Vintage Magazine Home Interiors
Sugar House, Salt Lake City
Mondo Utah
Utah Signs

My photography is strictly amatuerish, done mostly in the spirit of documenting places I've seen and enjoyed, since I am very sentimental and my world seems to be always be changing at a rapid pace. I also have a large collection of ephemera and vintage / antique children's books that I enjoy sharing. The scanned images that I post are from my private collection, not harvested from the web. While I love sharing, I believe sharing is a two-way street. Please don't add me as a contact or 'fave' my images unless you have a profile and images of your own to share. Please respect the time, effort and expense that went into collecting and scanning these images. Enjoy them, but do not harvest them for commercial use or to repost as your own collection. I'm always glad to meet like-minded people on Flickr who get excited by nostalgic images the way I do.

Note: I've done a bit of housekeeping lately, removing contacts where there has seldom been contact, or if you haven't uploaded anything new in quite a while. No offense intended if I removed you: I just like to keep my contacts at a fairly low number so that I have time to make it around to everyone's 'streams. If you start contacting me, I may add you again!

I have really slowed down the pace of adding contacts. Don' t be offended if I don't add you...there just aren't enough hours in the day. I'll try to stop by your photostream if you have stopped by mine. BE SURE TO VIEW MY LARGE LIST OF FAVORITES FOR SOME GREAT IMAGES (YOURS ARE PROBABLY AMONG THEM)!

arts enthusiast's favorite photos from other Flickr members (4,010)

  • MT, Glasgow-U.S. 2 Town & Country Furniture Store Neon Sign by Alan C of Marion,IN
  • The Circus Girl by plaisanter~
  • To My Valentine postcard (1909) by Tommer G
  • Tintype of Solemn Little Girl with Ringlets and a "Whatsit" Square Object by Photo_History
  • ZCMI Department Store by NYKID10014
  • After christmas Ydrehammar 1965 by annkarlstedt
  • Satire by Pete Zarria
  • Vintage Interior With Two Women, Possibly Twins by dlundbech
  • Pump Islands in the Jet Age, 1964 by Roadsidepictures
  • Christmas in Denmark by Dr. Hemmert
  • christmas at tivoli 00. by mayhem&miscellany
  • PC240014.JPG by FarinaB
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    flamenconut says:

    "Her passion for, and knowledge of, the Arts shines out from this lady's photostream. She has fascinating collections of all kinds of wonderful things, and, luckily, chooses to share them with us all! With unfailing good taste she picks out goodies to stimulate our eyes, and our interest. Thanks for giving me so much food for thought!"

    14th May, 2009

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    army.arch says:

    "Ellie has such a wonderful mix of photographs and information on her photostream. It's joy just to wander through it."

    2nd March, 2009

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    Picture Books says:

    "One of my first flickr friends, Ellie is just a SweetiePie! My first view of many vintage books is thanks to this lady. I adore her Mother Goose group. From a huge grand opera of a family, she must have learned sharing & caring from the get-go AND we on flickr get to enjoy the fine legacy of her upbringing in her many and beautiful posts and comments :-)

    If I ever get out west, she'd be the first person I'd want to meet (and not just because of her library :-)

    (I wish this lady lived in Baltimore so I could borrow her books Award :-)"

    31st December, 2008

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    Dania Hurley says:

    "Ellie has great taste in both music and the visual arts, the two things that make me happiest. She posts pictures of the most architecturally interesting buildings, the most fun and exciting googie signs, the most beautiful illustrations, and the covers of great albums - if you follow along, you'll get a great education and a bit of excitement from each of her posts."

    27th January, 2008

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    gem66 says:

    "I can't believe that I am the first person to write a testimonial for this wonderful art enthusiast. Going through her photostream and her many sets is like going back to a more glowing and lovely era. Perhaps I enjoy her photos so much because the things she is interested in are the things I am interested in. Please take a tour through her wonderland of photography. You won't be disappointed."

    13th October, 2007

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Ellie
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