{"id":17666,"date":"2014-11-11T03:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T08:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17666"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:41:10","slug":"the-photo-elective-murphys-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/11\/11\/the-photo-elective-murphys-tavern\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photo Elective – Murphy’s Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we did pretty well with a visit to The Mardi Gras Club<\/strong><\/a> and were actually graced by the presence of the<\/span> Miss Vicki<\/a><\/strong>. Over on the Facebook<\/em> pages for Westville<\/strong><\/a> and Gloucester City<\/strong><\/a> there was a lot of back and forth between folks there offering their memories of the place and time. Somebody mentioned Murphy’s Tavern<\/em><\/strong> which brings us today’s post.<\/em>
\n\"Murphy's<\/a>
\nAs I said before I had a photography course in art school, and I recently uncovered several plastic binder pages filled with the negatives. I don’t remember what the assignments entailed, but being that I lived in Westville and commuted to school, I shot pictures in Westville. My fellow art students lived in dorms, student housing and apartments in Philly and shot every square inch of Center City Philadelphia. At the time, I thought my photos were lackluster compared to the other kids’ cosmopolitan shots of glass and brick and steel in the big city. Now that I’m looking at my shots with fresh eyes, they’re not that bad. I wish I shot ten times as much!<\/p>\n

As always comments, questions and anecdotes are welcome, and feel free to leave them below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we did pretty well with a visit to The Mardi Gras Club and were actually graced by the presence of the Miss Vicki. Over on the Facebook pages for Westville and Gloucester City there was a lot of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,120,3340],"tags":[148,158,155,284,5,156,122,118,480,336,121],"class_list":["post-17666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-the-photo-elective","tag-148","tag-analog","tag-bar","tag-booze","tag-joe-williams","tag-liquor","tag-new-jersey","tag-photography","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-westville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4AW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17899,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/the-photo-elective-king-richards-tavern\/","url_meta":{"origin":17666,"position":0},"title":"The Photo Elective – King Richard’s Tavern","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a course in photography. 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