From Bartender of Manhattan I mean Bartender’s Skills with a Manhatten comes a wonderful selection of pictures. Perhaps depressingly, many of the pictures he may be providing as worsts, particularly of the Bryant Park area look wonderful and we would be glad to have them in Perth, but first here’s some genuine worsting from The Hudson River Valley. I hope that’s a genuine US freedom style bullethole Bartender. Bartender says,
“To give your readers a bit more info, the Hudson River Valley is unique in being an area colonized by Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers prior to English settlement, and is also the location of significant Free Black and later Swedish and New England Yankee towns and sites. This has resulted in a delightfully polyglot history with a fair bit of tolerance for anything (provided it resulted in good living) and has also insured that classic Anglo-American-style “good taste,” they had it not, for 400 years. Not complaining: Gomez and Morticia Addams were always more fun than John and Abigail. 
The Worst of Perth 
Alas, that’s a metal screw holding the beer bottle sign to its pole. There’s a certain YEE-HAW element in the Valley, but not quite that much.
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Oh you could have pretended! You don’t find shot signs closer than half an hour out of Perth. Actually that would be a good project – find the closest shot sign to the CBD. Maybe Bakers Hill? Maybe still too close.
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Baker Hill too close? My money’s on Belmont.
Beautiful Worsting, Barkeep. I would’ve liked to see more pickups, though.
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Tip of the iceberg, folks. I was tearing my hair out with frustration realizing how many of the best worsts (and worst bests) are difficult to photograph, being located at the end of long driveways, along narrow, parking-hostile roads or directly behind someone with a restraining order and a bullwhip.
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Pray for us Bartender… pray for us in the Church of Van Loan…
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some fine worsting barkeep, aided by some suitably grim looking skies.
a tourist destination to rival midland dontcha think?
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Oops. I thought you meant the UK midlands. No experience with the WA version.
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consider yourself lucky barkeep.
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Most of your pics looked too good. Manhattan worst is depressingly better than pert best.
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depressing? i would have thought that international vindication of our worstness would have been cause for rejoicing.
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At least we didn’t have to pay bead one for Midland which puts us ahead of Manhattan. Wait no it doesn’t. That’s worse.
Strange, Outrage is in town but no ones on strike. The journalistic standard has fallen though.
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Outrage. Drinking Qingdao and eating peoples food (Chinese) around corner from yer hotel. Come down. How long can “as unionists were fucked and as journalists we’re even fuckterd” take?
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I did provide some bests in both cases for context (although some of the bests might double as worsts–the Late Victorian period was very unnerving in this region). The Hudson River Valley as a landscape is paradise compared to the Midlands, but Port Ewen gives anywhere you’d care to name a brisk run in the ugly derby.
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Looks almost as frightening as Wundowie……
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And yuh spelt muh name wrong.
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Bit more background: image #1 and image #3 are of the same place, a beer store on the edge of Port Ewen. Image #2 is of Lindy’s, which was a diner on the edge of the edge of Port Ewen. It closed perhaps 35 years ago and has been slowly rotting ever since. My pic does not do justice to the graffiti, but perhaps conveys the delightful thrill of 12 degrees Fahrenheit.
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I wonder what became of Lindy
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As I recall, she wound up in a lawsuit with the town board about selling her property to a developer who was decidedly unpopular with the area. She shuttered her shop in protest and has since popped her clogs. The Hudson River Valley: WHERE NIMBYS KILL.
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That bottleshop is fugly enough to be worthy of Perth. Getting decent worst shots can be a challenge, there is a fantastic front lawn (if it was registered the whole thing would be epic) on my daily commute I want to submit, but I’d have to stand on a roundabout for the best composition. Not exactly subtle.
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If I am brave enough I will try to get a snap of the sham Tudor castle erected by an insane contractor up the street from the bottle store. His neighbors moved out in protest and he promptly bough their house AND ACTUALLY INCORPORATED IT INTO HIS OWN. For a while the town regarded the project as some sort of Gothic Revival version of The Blob – an alien and sinister mass that would one day consume us all. Nope. Just two houses, the bark yard and a lot of WTF skid marks on the street from passing drivers jamming on the brakes to make sure they weren’t flashing back to Woodstock (also up the street).
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sholaa, you just have to develop an insouciant attitude and snap away.
subtlety is hardly a required criterion for this blog.
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Here’s how it’s done.
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The shot of the German fucker bus should also inspire. Also your all night vigil at Tankmaster Bento.
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Get amongst it Sholoa. Sublety not required.
See here
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Snap Mr Bento…
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Fine worsting, BSwaM. If you’ve got a spare star picket handy, you could add some mischief to the beer bottle sign.
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