{"id":38476,"date":"2022-08-07T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38476"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:25:07","slug":"the-counter-at-bills-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/07\/the-counter-at-bills-no-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Counter at Bill&#8217;s No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Counter at Bill's No 7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77967494@N08\/52257717710\/in\/dateposted\/\" 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\/52257717710_bb198079ac_z.jpg?resize=518%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Counter at Bill's No 7\" width=\"518\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Here is 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. We&#8217;re back inside <em>Bill&#8217;s No. 7<\/em> which was on Main Street in downtown <em>Willimantic, Connecticut<\/em>. I must have been in there between the breakfast and lunch rush. At its peak, it had a huge customer base, and it would have been tough to find a seat unlike this photograph.<\/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 and make prints. 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 was probably Thanksgiving of 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another scanned 35mm negative in the Photo Elective category. We&#8217;re back inside Bill&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/07\/the-counter-at-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_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":[31,3113,2093,3340],"tags":[33,355,158,988,333,393,1372,6,480,336,3660,3425],"class_list":["post-38476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photo-restoration-2","category-photography-2","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-35mm","tag-analog","tag-black-and-white","tag-connecticut","tag-diner","tag-scan","tag-tina-garceau","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-willceau","tag-willimantic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-a0A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38406,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/inside-bills-no-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":38476,"position":0},"title":"Inside Bill&#8217;s No. 7","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"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's famous foot bridge. All sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art\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":"Bill's No. 7","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52253239297_dce6cb087c_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38520,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/21\/17th-and-walnut\/","url_meta":{"origin":38476,"position":1},"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":38956,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/18\/black-and-white-and-read-all-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":38476,"position":2},"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. 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Illustration majors at the school formerly known as The Philadelphia Collage of Art were required to take a photography elective where students would shoot 35mm film; process the film and make prints from the negatives. 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