scott . 45 years old / denver . colorado
i spent a good part of the day with my friend, kristin. after having a tasty bite to eat in a part of town i rarely find myself in, we went looking for a salvage yard of sorts that i had come across many months ago while taking pictures for my other website. we drove to where i thought it was and couldn't find it. we turned around, looking again, but still found nothing. i turned around to make one last attempt and found it a bit further up the road. if you head north on broadway, continue on until it turns into brighton boulevard. i highly recommend going there because it is full of treasures.
i found what i was looking for, or a very suitable version of it anyway, and a lot of other things i had no idea i even wanted. i suppose that is usually the case. where does this desire to accumulate come from? the man working at "queen city salvage" was extremely helpful. he was willing to talk and search for what i was looking for and he let kristin and i poke around and answered all of the questions we could think to ask.
he chatted with us as we were getting ready to leave. the hatch of my car is extremely heavy because the lift supports need to be replaced, so i had kristin hold them up while i loaded an old window into the back. i set the window down and suddenly realized i should ask the helpful salvage man to be today's stranger. he was walking away, so i called after him and took off in his direction, but then realized i left kristin with the burden of the hatch. embarrassed, i called to her that she could set it down, and, fortunately for me, she laughed about it.
i told scott what i was up to and asked him if he would be today's stranger. he confessed that he was indeed strange and agreed to it. i think he found it amusing. he even wanted to help me find a good location for the photos. i gave him my card, which happened to be an old photograph of a two-sided drive-in movie theater in oklahoma. scott seemed to appreciate that. whether he feigned it or his interest was genuine i will not know, but he made me feel good about what i was doing. it was nice that he took a second to ask about the image on the business card. out of the last 439 people, he is one of a small handful that have asked about the photos i use as promotional material.
scott is from the east coast originally: maryland, new jersey, and pennsylvania. he moved to chicago for some time, where he picked up some knowledge about cars (he knew a good amount about mine), and eventually made his way to denver. now he spends his time working several jobs, the salvage yard being his friday work. his friend owns the place and they collaborate as they both have knowledge and stuff to get rid of. scott also runs an alpaca ranch not far away and is a historic building renovation carpenter. he was very easy to speak with and obviously had a lot of experience under his belt. he had a good smile and struck me as a warm person.
it is so very wonderful when the process of finding the day's stranger is as organic as it was today. thank you so much for your time, scott!
i spent a good part of the day with my friend, kristin. after having a tasty bite to eat in a part of town i rarely find myself in, we went looking for a salvage yard of sorts that i had come across many months ago while taking pictures for my other website. we drove to where i thought it was and couldn't find it. we turned around, looking again, but still found nothing. i turned around to make one last attempt and found it a bit further up the road. if you head north on broadway, continue on until it turns into brighton boulevard. i highly recommend going there because it is full of treasures.
i found what i was looking for, or a very suitable version of it anyway, and a lot of other things i had no idea i even wanted. i suppose that is usually the case. where does this desire to accumulate come from? the man working at "queen city salvage" was extremely helpful. he was willing to talk and search for what i was looking for and he let kristin and i poke around and answered all of the questions we could think to ask.
he chatted with us as we were getting ready to leave. the hatch of my car is extremely heavy because the lift supports need to be replaced, so i had kristin hold them up while i loaded an old window into the back. i set the window down and suddenly realized i should ask the helpful salvage man to be today's stranger. he was walking away, so i called after him and took off in his direction, but then realized i left kristin with the burden of the hatch. embarrassed, i called to her that she could set it down, and, fortunately for me, she laughed about it.
i told scott what i was up to and asked him if he would be today's stranger. he confessed that he was indeed strange and agreed to it. i think he found it amusing. he even wanted to help me find a good location for the photos. i gave him my card, which happened to be an old photograph of a two-sided drive-in movie theater in oklahoma. scott seemed to appreciate that. whether he feigned it or his interest was genuine i will not know, but he made me feel good about what i was doing. it was nice that he took a second to ask about the image on the business card. out of the last 439 people, he is one of a small handful that have asked about the photos i use as promotional material.
scott is from the east coast originally: maryland, new jersey, and pennsylvania. he moved to chicago for some time, where he picked up some knowledge about cars (he knew a good amount about mine), and eventually made his way to denver. now he spends his time working several jobs, the salvage yard being his friday work. his friend owns the place and they collaborate as they both have knowledge and stuff to get rid of. scott also runs an alpaca ranch not far away and is a historic building renovation carpenter. he was very easy to speak with and obviously had a lot of experience under his belt. he had a good smile and struck me as a warm person.
it is so very wonderful when the process of finding the day's stranger is as organic as it was today. thank you so much for your time, scott!
2 comments:
What an interesting concept you have here. It seems surprisingly difficult to capture your stranger each day. But it adds to the anticipation.
I really like your blog, as I have said before. It's a great project, I wonder if you could make it into a book one day?
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