Tag Archives: history

Thursday Doors – Downtown Ames

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Dan Antion

During our recent visit to Ames, Iowa to visit my brother, Faith was on a mission to find a store that she remembered shopping in earlier this year. As we tried to figure out which cross street would give us … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer Service, Family, Thursday Doors | Tagged Ames, coffee, Dinky, Doors, Historic building, history, Iowa, Pub | 64 Comments

Thursday Doors – Station Square

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Dan Antion

We all arrived in Pittsburgh on Friday night, for a Sunday church service and my mom’s funeral on Monday. That left us with some free time on Saturday. Faith and I drove to Station Square, the old Pittsburgh & Lake … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Thursday Doors, Travel | Tagged gateway clipper, history, P&LE, Pittsburgh, Railroad, Station Square | 53 Comments

Thursday Doors – St. Augustine Lighthouse

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Dan Antion

As I mentioned yesterday, a brief meeting in St. Augustine, bracketed by flights in and out of Daytona Beach, FL left me with little time for sightseeing. I did manage to collect a bunch of photos that I will share … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Thursday Doors, Travel | Tagged Florida, Fresnel lens, Historic building, history, light keepers home, Lighthouse, St. Augustine | 82 Comments

Thursday Doors – The Building Museum

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Dan Antion

I mentioned this museum in an earlier blog post, but not an earlier Doors post. I’ll be the first to admit that the doors are unremarkable, as was the entire museum experience. Unlike a lot of Washington, D.C. museums, this … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Thursday Doors | Tagged Building Museum, Capitol, Congress, history, National Registry of Historic Places, Pension Bureau, Preservation, Washington DC | 75 Comments

Thursday Doors – Doorsumptions

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Dan Antion

Remember Sesame Street? “♫One of these things is not like the others.” Well, that’s how my doors research went this week. Two buildings that I have long thought belonged together, are completely different things. Different, but interesting. Once again, I … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Thursday Doors | Tagged Cathedral of Learning, Dippy, history, Log Cabin, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Academy, Thursday Doors, University of Pittsburgh | 75 Comments

ten slang slung plus one

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Dan Antion

Originally posted on itkindofgotawayfromyou:
clinger : a female dancing very close to her partner (1890) cossack : a policeman (1850s) pull the devil by the tail : to take a risk of ruin (ca. 1750) the devil’s guts : a…

Posted in Humor, Reblog, Uncategorized | Tagged blogging, fun with words, history, humor, Prompt, slang, words | 18 Comments

Thursday Doors – St Patrick’s Cathedral

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Dan Antion

St Patrick’s Cathedral and I have not had a great history when it comes to photos. The one time I was actually inside, I didn’t have a camera. That was back when Faith was a low-number teenager and it was … Continue reading →

Posted in New York, Photography, Thursday Doors | Tagged construction, Doors, Gothic, history, photography, St Patrick’s Cathedral, terrorism | 62 Comments