Okay, so my dear blog has taken a beating of late due to a pesky little thing called full-time employment getting in the way. However, while you wait for new and exciting posts from me, check out Lost City: a blogspot for old New York City vestiges that are spotted, photographed, posted, before they're almost always torn down and erased from history.
I like old stuff. Old signs, old neon, old buildings, old cars, old photographs, old crap. I was inspired to do some research this morning on the old Jade Mountain Chinese Restaurant on Second Avenue because when I passed by the place this weekend, I sadly noticed a For Sale/ Lease sign covering it's fantastic neon sign. For years, the small unassuming building with the decorative Chinese Temple-style portico was a beacon of pink and red--and a speck of green, I believe--lights which touted CHOW on one side of the sign and MEIN on the other. Jade Mountain has been around since the 1930's, I never visited the inside of because someone told me over ten years ago that it was the worst Chinese food they'd ever had. Now I'll never know if that is true, as apparently the owner died in September, and the family has sold the place.
Sigh.
But please peruse Lost City's blog. Unlike Lost New York, the most depressing book on the planet (which consists entirely of photographs stuff which doesn't exist anymore...boo) with Lost City, there's still time to see some of the unique places posted there before their spaces are sold to ubiquitous chain stores and banks.
1 comment:
Thanks for the nice words about Lost City. It broke my heart to track the death of Jade Mountain. But that's what New York does these day: break your heart, on a regular basis.
Nice blog you have.
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