The Showroom...

    

    

I'm back...finally...As I mentioned in my last post, it's really getting harder to pull away to make posts and after giving my ol Nikon point and shoot to my pops for Christmas, I've been shooting less. I'm in the market for a digital SLR and haven't decided on one yet. For the record, the photos in this post are from mid January. After having some work out of town since then, I've been making insane progress on the loft and storage area above the kitchen and bathroom, respectively (the areas are best viewed in the top two shots on this post). I intend to show the progress in a new post by early next week - that's a promise.

I recently befriended and old Hungarian wholesaler who, after conducting business out of this building for more than 28 years, is finally calling it quits. A. Lebovitz is his name, coolest cat; wears a three piece tweed suit and hat daily - his trusty pipe hanging from his mouth. He needed some help moving a few things when I learned he was leaving and offered me to browse his decades worth of accumulation. Wow, what a pack rat's dream - boxes, carts and bolts of fabric - unopened mail postmarked from '72. Crazy! I found a few useful item: wheeled carts i'll use for side tables, misc. light fixtures. But the coolest thing was an old cast iron knitting machine that Lebovitz allowed me to grab. I'll be using the iron stand/legs as the base for a bar height dining table that out of the kitchen area. Cool beans!