David Harmantas

Photographer | @TheDailyIowan Alum | US Army Veteran

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@GlomarResponder I always preferred this version:

Way up north on the Chattahoochee
Up by the Upatoi
Stands a lonely red brick schoolhouse
The Benning School for Boys

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@SeanBannion Every self respecting Gen-Xer is 20/20. Question is, how many are you *still* good for in the current year?

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@GlomarResponder USMC was still bad about that in 04-05 (Army got religion faster). Our ANGLICOs got in trouble for fabricating racks for their air to ground radios—“unauthorized modifications”, don’t you know. Apparently they were supposed to let them slide around the HMMWV.

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@GlomarResponder Thought we’d left that mentality back in the 90s.

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@upstatefederlst Charisma’s a dump stat though. Need to be running guys who are STR 18/00 and CON 18.

Not that I, uh, know what any of these abbreviations and numbers mean, of course.

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@Chris_arnade Reminds me of all the posts about the new BART gates from a few days ago. While I get the point, I’m not so sure making it so that entering a subway station feels like entering a secured facility is quite the ‘win’ it’s being made out to be.

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@CrownMaybe

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https://t.co/QCggYz5V86

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Saddened to hear about the passing of Pete Kastanes—in his honor, here's one my earliest photos from when I started documenting my own version of a vanishing Chicago.

Chicago, Near North Side, 2006.

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@JCrouchPhoto @shagbark_hick Thanks. Hate to think of this as "bygone" (but you're not wrong). FWIW, most of these were shot roughly 2008-2016 or so. Honestly, I never thought Chicago would actually have replaced their sodium lights so fast—I'd still be shooting this otherwise.

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@jarvis_best Military's been calling it that for decades, tbf.

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@CrownMaybe Hey now, Crimson Fists are definitely the good guys. To wit, I always try work some white into a mini of them so that way they’re red, white, and blue. Which, of course, equals the good guys.

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@CrownMaybe Reasonable. It's the whole "RG marines have to look like stunt doubles from The Crow" that put me off.

Semi-related, while I enjoy my Crimson Fists and Black Templars, my dark horse chapter would have been the Aurora Chapter. Another Kill Team idea I'll never get to.

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@Gormogons @aelfred_D Seems like he’s leaving the chat.

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For the life of me, I don't understand why the city doesn't just update its sign ordinance rather than keep losing these things.

Uptown, 2016

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ANOTHER Chicago Neon Sign Lost! (A 2015 Chicago 7 Most Endnagered )

Chicago Loses Another Classic Neon Sign As Foremost Liquors Marquee Comes Down

"The sign for Uptown’s Foremost Liquors — with yellowed neon bulbs that lit up the historic Argyle Street for 70 years — was sold to an Indiana collector and taken away Tuesday as the business prepares to move across the street.

"It’s the second Chicago classic sign moved out of the city by private collectors in the past month, as local preservationists scrape to find solutions and incentives for small business owners to keep up them as bright odes to mid-century history.

“The bureaucracy of the city was too slow to save it,” McClellan said. “There’s no system set up to save these signs.”

"Manaa-Hoppenworth said the city is exploring ways to update laws to strengthen protections for classic signs.

"'We worked with Foremost Liquors and [business development group] Uptown United to do everything we could to save the sign,” Manaa-Hoppenworth said.

"'[W]hile I’m sad to lose this piece of history in Uptown, we’re very glad that this legacy business is able to stay on Argyle.”

https://t.co/qkVVeJqZy7 via @BlockClubChi

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@CrownMaybe 1. Oh, no worries.
2. Many such cases (I’m actually rereading the omnibus right now)

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@CrownMaybe I’m envious of painting minis—I’m currently grinding through terrain trying to finally finish my board before 11e drops.

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@CrownMaybe I think the space Smurf hate is pretty dated and just (mostly) a meme now—and how is space Rome never going to be cool?

(Of course, as a Crimson Fists enjoyer, I prefer the OG poster boys)