The girls and I have always got a kick out of this vandalised Stop Sign down in East Coulee. It is perched on the corner beside the now abandoned East Coulee Hotel. We were saddened to see that place shut down as we used to get a kick out of going there for an affordable meal. While we took advantage of the discounted Steak Dinner, the girls would have a blast plugging loonies into the old Juke Box and playing tunes. By 8:00PM the place became a licensed establishment and the younger crowd were forced to make way for the old geezers. A mix of bar flys and locals that hung out at the local watering hole. Hopefully someone finds a way to resurrect the old place.
Last spring I finally made time to photograph this old sign. Although nothing about this image suggests at the nostalgia attached to the place just out of the frame, it holds some fond memories for me.
This particular shot was captured with my Ebony SV45TU view camera and a Nikkor M 300mm lens. I used Ilford FP4+ film, processed in Janaury of this year in Perceptol developer diluted 1:1, with a development time of 11:45 minutes at 24C.
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