This is probably the most visually interesting building I’ve found here in Roanoke, Virginia — the Roanoke Typewriter Sales Company on Campbell Avenue. It’s just past the east edge of downtown, on the other side of the tracks, in the shadow of the overpass. It has a quasi-wedge shape that’s hemmed in closely at the rear by adjacent train tracks, and at its top is a billboard like a great, garish tiara.
If this isn’t the setting for a short story, I don’t know what is.
(May 2025.)
Warner Home Video. The original program aired on television between 1952 and 1958.
Actually, it’s been out for a while now. It again makes use of Rudyard Kipling’s “Boots.” (I do mean the poem by that title; none of the actors are wearing the man’s actual boots.)
Fox.
Thanks to AluMeredith for the image. 🙂
DC Comics.
People are funny. This is admittedly a terrible picture, but what you see is a nocturnal lone trombone player tonight in the parking level of Virginia Tech School of Medicine building (by Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital).
Hey, man — more power to you. Practice your art wherever you can.
DC Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 