#beloit

[unteriors]

Oak Street, Beloit, Ohio.

[vintagepipemen]

Professor Dennis Moore, Beloit College, 1976.

[johnporcellino]

Wow! Three of Chicago's best cartoonists are coming to Beloit College next Monday, November 6 at 4 pm, for a reading and panel discussion moderated by the inimitable Lynda Barry!

Come see Mike Centeno, Keiler Roberts, and Sam Szabo read their wonderful comics in beautiful Pearsons Hall, while Lynda joins them in conversation. I'll be there too, worrying about the tech. Books will be available afterwards for purchase and signing.

This event is free and open to the general public! I hope to see you there!

[thenearsightedmonkey]

What’s on my student’s minds? @beloit_college #beloit #comics https://www.instagram.com/p/CoknIwFuyMW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[existential-cryptid]

you know the sign has been down for awhile. strips of metal lay rusting on the ground where a fence used to be.

do you dare wonder what happened here? the wind picks up, blowing branches in the direction of your car. should you have even come here?

(Beloit, WI /// February 20th, 2022)

[railwayhistorical]

Bad Photo

When out shooting, one can equipment issues, horrible technique, bad processing, and much later on, sketchy scanning. And then one can have all four of these things.

I think this was a trip where I had dropped my camera and afterwards had issues with obtaining normal focus. I think an element must have been knocked loose within the compound lens. Camera shake is evident due to the bad weather and subsequent slow shutter speed. The film development seems to have provided for a color shift (which I tried to remove for the digital version seen here). And ever since I updated my scanning software, I don’t feel that I’m on top of the settings needed to get the sharpest scan.

And yet I still enjoy the photograph. Perhaps this is due to the charismatic locomotive shown, or the equally alluring caboose behind it.

The locomotive is a Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 which was built for the Milwaukee Road in 1954. I believe these were constructed in Beloit, found relatively nearby. (I should say, this unit has been saved and now lives at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio.) And the crummy seen, known as a “rib-sided” affair, is somewhat endemic to the CMStP&P Railroad (if I’m not mistaken). They were first built in 1939 and had long, useful lives on the railroad.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 28th 1977.

[rustbeltjessie]

Lucy’s #7 Burger Bar // Beloit, WI // September 1, 2022

This place has been named one of the top ten burger joints in Wisconsin, and after eating there, I definitely understand why. Their fries and shakes are excellent, too.

[ballparksaroundtheworld]

ABC Supply Stadium, Beloit, Wisconsin, USA