Uploads from Professor Bop, tagged americana

Uneeda Cracker ?

nobody@flickr.com (Professor Bop) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:19:08 -0700

I saw this vintage painted ad for Uneeda soda crackers on the brick wall of an old building in Northampton, Massachusetts. Someone came along and painted graffiti over it.

So it goes ....

Mohawk Gift Shop

nobody@flickr.com (Professor Bop) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:50:01 -0800

Professor Bop posted a photo:

Spotted along the "Mohawk Trail", aka Route 2, in Northwestern Massachusetts.

Yes, these places still exist.

No, I don't shop here. This is documentary photography, folks!

Bowling Sign

nobody@flickr.com (Professor Bop) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:48:09 -0800

Professor Bop posted a photo:

A slice of Americana found in the village of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Known pretty much only to New Englanders and those in the Canadian Maritimes, candlepin bowling uses balls more similar to duckpin but with the pins narrow and streamlined like candles. The Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley is one of the very few places I know of that still offer candlepin bowling today and claims to be the second oldest bowling alley in America.