Part of the cool animated sign at the old McDonald’s stand in Downey, CA, a location so old that it actually predates Ray Kroc’s involvement with the company. Not a very good pic today, I shot it lazily from inside my car and it’s not even in focus. Oh well, one pic a day, good or bad, right?
I should get better pics of this later since I live right next to it. Although I did also shoot the picture that’s on wikipedia — but I’ve been wanting to improve on it with a nice “magic hour” shot. And it’s not like I haven’t had plenty of opportunities.
I also have this clip of this sign in motion which was originally shot on Super 16mm a few years back when it was in good working order:
Whenever I see the “500” it always makes me feel like I’m inside of an episode of the Price is Right or something.
-Bryan
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No pic of the day for today but I did take some time to make a slight modification to the blog software. Before the category pages would show a minimal view of each entry that didn’t include pictures which made the Pic of the Day category page pretty much useless since it had no thumbnails or anything. So I modified the software a bit to make it so that it shows the same preview as the main blog index page.
One of these days I’ll un-lazify myself enough to redo the top banner images so they are the same width as this template. Those images were originally made to go with a different template. I guess I should get some newer images into the rotation while I’m at it.
I’ve also been thinking about putting all these pics of the day up on smugmug or something so people could get prints if they wanted. Hmm maybe.
Pioneer chicken locations have all but disappeared but there are still a couple around, like this one at Florence and Garfield in Bell Gardens that I frequent. Let me tell you, I love fried chicken with a passion and there is no crispy, crunchy, juicy, delicious fried chicken skin like Pioneer. The secret is the artery-clogging fat they fry it in, one of the last bastions of the old way of doing things before anybody heard of trans fats or “good cholesterol”
The obligatory “flowers ‘n’ bees” shot from my new Canon S90. So far I love this camera. I love the way the ring selector thingy works. This camera is quick to operate in manual mode. I should save the full review for a dedicated post. Yeah. OK. Also since I missed the last like… week or more of pics of the day, here’s another one, also from the back yard:
