Ninth Street Q Line during True False Film Festival

This is the first time the Nightview blog has posted a color image.  The image in question was a panoramic taken during the True False Film Festival, as the queue line formed outside of the Blue Note and along Ninth Street.  The panoramic method I am using, which is probably the most unstudied and least rigorous method I could employ, involves multiple photographs from several different positions along the street.  The result is a kind of time-delayed fragmentation.  The image is not completely true, but interesting. 

One Booches, hold the cars

It's not often you see Booche's without any cars parked in front of it.  This was taken a few years ago during that fortuitous juncture between the end of spring semester and the beginning of summer school. 

Glenn's Cafe

Glenn's Cafe, when its neon still illuminated the curtained, second floor windows of The Missouri Press Clipping Bureau, on the northwest corner of Ninth and Cherry.  Glenn's old space is now home to Kaldi's...I'm not sure what happened to the Missouri Press Clipping Bureau.  The non-conformist graffiti and the shadow-casting tree were here for many years before this corner got renovated.

Booches Front Window

Booches on a Sunday night, through the front window.

Acorn, Dawson, Salt

A view of south Ninth Street in Columbia, around fifteen years ago.  Before the enormous expansion of the Missouri theater, this block used to house Acorn Books, Dawson Shoe Repair, and Salt of the Earth Records.  Taken on a rainy June night, this is a slice of what Ninth street used to be.  I have a feeling that this nostalgic theme will persist through the next several posts.

Barber Shop at Night

Like any photographer who peers into the windows of a darkened barbershop at night, I was fascinated by this scene.  To me, it is almost as magical as Sendak's Night Kitchen...but Sendak didn't have an antlered deer in his imagination.  On ninth street, downtown Columbia.

Last Winter...

Get Lost bookstore, on Ninth street, during the meteorological magic that was last winter.  Alas...

Missouri Theatre in Snow

This was the Missouri Theatre before the facelift and interior renovations which transformed it a few years ago.  The sign and its space-age font, albeit dated, has a certain, vintage appeal.  To our left of the theatre, at the time, were a shoe repair shop and Acorn Books.  I believe that the shoe repair shop has moved over to 8th street, and Acorn Books is now located out in the Marketplace off I-70.  Salt of the Earth Records used to be in the same row of shops.

Columbia Art League Opening

True False Film Festival

The opening night of Buck, at the Missouri Theatre during this weekend's True False Film Festival.  This is the festival's eighth year in Columbia...for a list of movies, see the festival's website at www.truefalse.org.

Biker on Ninth Street

One of the few brave enough to bike during last night's storm.

Heidelberg in snow, Ninth Street

This was the Heidelberg as I fondly recall it, before the fire and the nearly to-the-letter rebuild.  Now it is much taller, but a little less rustic.  It's hard to replicate 50 years of cigarette smoke, grease, and spilled beer.  Taken when Osama's coffee shop still held sway over south ninth street.

Ninth Street in fog

Another view of the Peking neon that once graced Ninth Street, after closing time.  This particular stretch of Ninth really lost some magic once the sign came down. 

Peking Palace, 9th Street

Most residents of Columbia will remember Peking Palace, a Chinese restaurant downtown.  Sadly, Peking closed its Ninth Street location in the late 90's.  Too bad, its neon was a fixture and a beacon in downtown Columbia.