Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

Oy, my eyes!

Saturday, July 12th, 2008 by tanya

It just occurred to me that the past few posts are like a wall of words. That shows how remiss I've been in supplying the site/blog with fresh photographs. Please don't go away, there will be more pictures soon, I promise. I have a new 4x5 of ...

CalFed (now Citibank) at Central Avenue and San Diego St

Saturday, January 12th, 2008 by tanya

Many thanks to Myrtle for these pictures of CalFed. They were taken in 2000, before the current owner made major alterations. On the horizon are pictures of modern showrooms still standing at Riverside Auto Mall, a profile on Milton Caughey (designer of some of Riverside's best postwar elementary ...

A kindred spirit

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 by tanya

I've been a bit hesitant to speak out in support of keeping our Main Branch Library mostly because as a preservationist I understand the pain of the previous generation's struggle to save the Carnegie Library. I remember in particular a snapshot where the Main Library towers behind the ...

Broken Camera.

Friday, November 16th, 2007 by tanya

I'm lagging on adding new properties to ModernRiverside.com because my digital camera broke last week. Sure, I *could* haul out the view camera, but a) I'm out of polaroids and my spotmeter needs a rare battery, and b) It takes me about 20 minutes just to set up one ...