A cautionary tale

[RBSinTo]

Taken in Kensington Market here in Toronto in summer 2016.
I grabbed this shot because I felt it contained all the elements to tell a story.
Converted to black and white in Photoshop.
motorized Nikon f with meterless, eyelevel prism
Nikkor 180 2.8 ED AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
5.6 @ 1/125th

[Frank Fremerey]

Good story telling. He seems to be waiting for an answer.

[David H. Hartman]

The scene above is sadly familiar.

I remember driving past *the* Hard Rock Café, not the chain but the business shown on the back cover of the Doors, Morrison Hotel LP Jacket. The intersection reeked of vomit. I was driving a light delivery truck for a printing company. I tried rolling up the windows on a hot August day but it was no use. This was near the Coke plant just south of Los Angles civic center. The year was probably 1973. Minutes earlier I drove past the Morrison Hotel. I was surprised as I thought the sign on the glass of the album cover was art.

In about 1987 I took a friend to see the Morrison Hotel and Hard Rock Café but the slabs for blocks were cleared for redevelopment so there was nothing to see.

Dave