I can remember when I was at school there was a similar shop a couple of minutes walk from my Grandmother’s place and two somewhat smaller a stones throw from the house in the opposite direction. The smaller ones went first (the shop facilities deleted and now purely private dwellings). The bigger establishment lasted until the sub-post offices in the area were “rationalised” as being too close to the GPO in town (by some tw@ looking at a nice flat map, and having no conception of the impediment to OAPs trying to collect their pittances presented by steep hills). Then the GPO was replaced by a kiosk in a stationary shop…
Some small progress today, laid out the pavement in front of the shop, this includes a pavement borrowed light. Not sure how often these are seen today, but Tom’s reminisces reminded me of seeing them around town when I was a callow youth, .
I think they’re all gone now, but I remember walking through downtown San Diego and seeing blocks with sets of pavement lights every ten feet or so, mostly greened by age or replaced with concrete patches where a glass had broken, with the occasional pair of doors for a sidewalk elevator lift, usually welded shut. As blocks were redeveloped, the underground areas that were lit by the deadlights were redone, and the sidewalks were replaced with ‘ordinary’ pavement. The last ones I remember were in front of the Hotel San Diego, but that was demolished more than a decade ago.
A bit of a tedious stage, trying to build the entrance, . The ‘blast tape’ is really stretching my patience, it’s proving a tad difficult with my stumpy little fingers, .
Just about finished cobbling together the external element of the shopfront, . Once I’ve given it an undercoat I’m sure there’ll be some fine tuning required, .
. I especially liked Tom’s trip down memory lane, 
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. The ‘blast tape’ is really stretching my patience, it’s proving a tad difficult with my stumpy little fingers, 
. Once I’ve given it an undercoat I’m sure there’ll be some fine tuning required, 
