Rock-n-Roll ... by auntietk
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Description
I've been having a great time playing in postwork. (Can you tell??)
This is the Rock-n-Roll McDonalds on Ontario in Chicago. It's sort of next door and across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe, but the thing I like best about this place is that it's five blocks from Reza's. :D
Some day I'll be done posting photographs from my Chicago trip (and I'll stop talking about Reza's every other day), and you'll all faint from shock. That day hasn't arrived yet! What's the point of going on vacation if you can't make your friends look at all your pictures when you get home? :P LOL!

Comments (33)
very cool shot... retro,flashback... reminds me of my lost youth...nicely done!
Wonderful photo and great postwork! about the time you finish talking about your vacation, someone else will pick up where you left off and talk about theirs
This rocks!!! (sorry!! lol) I keep going back to those fotos as well, half the time I just can't decide what to do, so I don't do anything. LOVE the postwork!!
this is cool me eyes smiled bright love Micky D's I sure do wish they still have them fried apple pies mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good they were
Good one. A B&W in low light. And you are following precedent...you went in September...I went in June and am still digging around in my Chicago files:) This pic tonight is special for another reason...this is the original architectural design of McDs dating back to store #1 in Des Plaines, Illinois, April 1955. A fun digi-fiddle.
Very well done on the postwork - so much movement too! Great mood created. Cheers, Clive
nice shot...
Very beautiful and interesting work. Congratulations for the author.
This takes me back. I can remember when the signs they used to have said '1000's served'. Wonderful post work.
You even manage to make McDonalds look attractive...you have achieved the impossible! (But I still wouldn't put what they sell near my face.)
Certainly looks better than our outlets on this side of the globe!!! Great PW and a lovely image Dierbaar! :)
HAHA! You are completely right. No fun having vacation without taking shots to show the friends. ;-) Wonderful postwork play Tara. I like it very much. :-)))
Great photo in B/W! :)
excellent capture!!
excellent b/w my friend
great shot!
Excellent shot and postwork! Looks like the old McDonald's from back in the late 1950s to early 1960s when I was little. But they weren't three stories high. Wow! :D
That is a huge MacDonld.... Nice shot. Aloha
an rock n roll mac donalds .. looks really great !!!!
Great image!!
excellent in B&W
LIke this one a lot, Tara, it's so dreamlike and somewhat futuristic at the same time
In your face and fun, like Rock-n-Roll. Love the motion of the cars and the strong contrast between bright lights and dark night. Great effects!
WOW! I remember Corey and I standing there, amazed that they'd changed the place! Shows how often we get to that part of downtown. What I notice is the fact that for all of its updating and expansion, it DOES recall the shape of the classic McDonalds, especially the very first McDonald's ever. It's in Des Plains and serves as a museum, what's funny about it is the fact that it's across the street from...well...from McDonalds. The post work is fantastic here. It really makes this place look authentic, which I guess is what the architects had in mind...but you've gone one step beyond that and brought back some of the giddy fun that McDonald's used to represent, way back in a more innocent, less media-saturated age. Wonderful work! I love it.
Wow! Looks cool in b&w and it looks like you are having Tara. I can image you going to South America and burning up your camera taking pictures!
I think your pics are great ..for a small farm town girl like me ..that biggg of a mac's?? Fantastic!!
FREAKY! When I first saw this in thumbnail I thought it was a sci-fi space ship. And even after I figured out what it was it STILL looked like a sci-fi space ship. Was Ray Krock from outerspace? Spreading his world conquering seed-pods all over the place and turning the Human race into willing slaves jonsing for ever more " special sauce " ? Have you ever tried to get a McDonald's employee to tell you what the EXACT ingredients are in " special sauce "? Hmmmmmmmmm. Makes one wonder. But I digress... This is a wonderful shot, compelling and other-worldly. The b&w is a nice touch and as Chip says adds to the general aura of original authenticity. There's a nice drama as well that reminds me of nocturnal shots of New York City in the Fifties, or something in the background in an episode of Naked City. Wonderful work. And what's wrong with vacation pix? I made so many shots while you guys were visiting that at the rate I'm presently posting, they'll probably be strung through other posts until at least 2015. Great work.
Great shot, of the original design, for McDonalds. I was driving a semi in those days. Dana
Cool shot neat in B&W also.. nice work on this, very well done!!
This is a great shot and I love the postwork.