Category Archives: Greek statues sitting in front of 1960s apartment buildings

Rebecca and Hebe

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

Never forget how much you can learn about a thing just by poking around it, inspecting it, examining it up close from every angle. You might even find the solution to a mystery. So it was when I decided to … Continue reading →

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Friday Photo Special: Greek Statues again

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

Wouldn’t you know it? The very day the post on Midcentury Grecian statues goes up, I happen to make it back out to the O’Hare neighborhood, where the whole thing started. Here’s a few closeups of the strange and intriguing … Continue reading →

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Greece in a Box

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

While photographing the northeast corner of my much-beloved O’Hare neighborhood, I started to noticed something funny. An inordinate number of the 1960s apartment buildings prominently featured a Classical-styled sculpture hanging out in front of them. It was one of those … Continue reading →

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