Green Ridge in the 1930s--My Great Grandfather's Gas Station

I think the title says it all...or most of it.  This is an old, family photography of Green Ridge, Missouri in the early 1930s.  Out if front of the service station is my great-grandfather, William Fine Kendrick.  I guess by this point in the depression, farming was just not paying any longer, so he went into the gasoline business.  I don't think the building is there anymore...pity, as service stations no longer possess this much style or grace. 

Bella Hess, Ninth Street

An old storefront sign was exposed when the ninth street strollway was redone a few years ago.  Evidently, a store called Bella Hess once occupied a spot on ninth street where Columbia Photo now resides.  I was intrigued not only by the vintage appeal of the antique signage, but by the pale yellow on turquoise color scheme. 

Flowers in the Ozarks

Somewhere down in the Ozarks on one of Oliver Schuchard's photography classes through the Extension Department. 

The Bull Pen Cafe at night

I was only lucky, or smart enough, to have eaten here twice before they closed.  I had a roommate who ate a brain sandwich here for breakfast one snowy morning in January.  I preferred the biscuits.  I took this one poignantly atmospheric fall evening in October.

Ozarks in spring

Summer in Columbia

Summer.  That should be all I need to say.  This was taken in a neighborhood a couple blocks away from my old house on Glenwood Ave.   Just beyond the top of the fence a hammock is visible in the backyard, beckoning, waiting, inviting.