{"id":38406,"date":"2022-08-02T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38406"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:22:31","slug":"inside-bills-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/inside-bills-no-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Bill&#8217;s No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bill's No. 7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77967494@N08\/52253239297\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52253239297_dce6cb087c_c.jpg?resize=507%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bill's No. 7\" width=\"507\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here\u2019s another scanned 35mm negative in the <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-photo-elective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Photo Elective<\/strong><\/a> category. This one was from the interior of a fantastic old diner on Main Street in downtown <em>Willimantic, Connecticut<\/em>. Through the window you can see Willimantic&#8217;s famous foot bridge.<\/p>\n<p>All sophomore students majoring in illustration at <em>The Philadelphia College of Art<\/em> were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. I lived in and shot photographs around the school\u2019s downtown Philadelphia campus, but I had my camera loaded with Tri-X in tow when I returned to Willimantic for a visit. It&#8217;s probably Thanksgiving 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another scanned 35mm negative in the Photo Elective category. This one was from the interior of a fantastic old diner on Main Street in downtown Willimantic, Connecticut. Through the window you can see Willimantic&#8217;s famous foot bridge. All sophomore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/inside-bills-no-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[31,3113,2093,700,3340],"tags":[446,355,158,988,333,393,685,3425],"class_list":["post-38406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photo-restoration-2","category-photography-2","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-the-photo-elective","tag-446","tag-35mm","tag-analog","tag-black-and-white","tag-connecticut","tag-diner","tag-new-england","tag-willimantic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38476,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/07\/the-counter-at-bills-no-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":38406,"position":0},"title":"The Counter at Bill&#8217;s No. 7","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is another scanned 35mm negative in the Photo Elective category. We're back inside Bill's No. 7 which was on Main Street in downtown Willimantic, Connecticut. I must have been in there between the breakfast and lunch rush. At its peak, it had a huge customer base, and it would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Counter at Bill's No 7","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52257717710_bb198079ac_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38956,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/18\/black-and-white-and-read-all-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":38406,"position":1},"title":"Black and White and Read All Over","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"September 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Newsstand in the vicinity of 15th and Locust circa 1981. The Photo Elective All students majoring in illustration at\u00a0The Philadelphia College of Art\u00a0were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images and make prints. I lived in and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sunday-paper.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sunday-paper.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sunday-paper.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38520,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/21\/17th-and-walnut\/","url_meta":{"origin":38406,"position":2},"title":"17th and Walnut","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot taken of a reflection in a florist's window in the vicinity of 17th and Walnut in downtown Philadelphia, PA. I took this photograph as a sophomore at The Philadelphia College of Art. The Photo Elective All students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"17th and Walnut 1981","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52277690351_80869e93b5_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18101,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/02\/03\/an-afternoon-in-1981\/","url_meta":{"origin":38406,"position":3},"title":"An Afternoon in 1981","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. As I\u2019ve said before, all sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. 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As I've said before, all sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. 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