Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey

Tag: USA

Florent

New York, New York, USA

Closed 2008

Henri Bendel

New York, New York, USA Closed 2019 The Disappointed Tourist: Henri Bendel, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Since Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor’s flagship store closed, I’ve been seeing a lot of nostalgia for the giant old department stores. Larissa M. Henri […]

Howard Johnsons

Henderson, Kentucky, USA Closed 1990 It’s not the sign that is important to me, but what it stands for. Not so much a bygone era but more representing the overall aesthetic of Howard Johnson’s and the way it defined an period in American history and the American landscape. For instance, they hired Jacques Pépin in […]

Idora Park

Oakland, California, USA Demolished 1929 My grandparents always talked about this theme park and going there as children. Chrissy H. Idora Park was an amusement park constructed by The Realty Syndicate in 1904 in Ayala Park and leased by the Ingersoll Pleasure and Amusement Park Co. In addition to several roller coasters, the park also had […]

Kim’s Video

New York, New York, USA Closed 2014 My DVD movie bookshelf was purchased there! Anon. Kim’s Video and Music were a group of video and music retail stores in and around New York City, known for their esoteric titles and knowledgeable if haughty staff. The owner, Yongman Kim, opened the first location inside his laundromat at 85 […]

Madison Square Garden II

New York, New York, USA Demolished 1926 This isn’t my own memory, but I interviewed the novelist Louis Auchincloss years ago, and he was endlessly nostalgic not only for the New York he used to know (he was born in 1917) but for the New York he had heard about from his grandparents. “I think,” […]

Mars Bar

New York, New York, USA

Closed 2011

Masonic Temple Building

Chicago, Illinois, USA Demolished 1939  I love the idea of a skyscraper that is also a temple of masons! Anon. The Masonic Temple Building was an early Chicago skyscraper designed by the firm of Burnham and Root, completed in 1892. With 21 stories, it was the tallest building in the city until the 1920s. It was […]