Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires

Cosas de Bs.As.

Pictures of some random, "typical" things of Buenos Aires that have caught my eye of late:

El Frutero de la Esquina

Cartel del Inmobilario

All the apartments and buildings for sale have these wedge shaped signs advertising their status. These days, as the economy has gotten better, a lot of them say "vendido" (sold). I don´t know why this building has four signs hanging off it.

Persianas

All the windows here have these exterior blinds (persianas) which roll down and form a nearly light-tight seal--a very useful thing when you come back from the disco at 10am and need to sleep until 4pm.

Cobble Stones

Lots of the streets here in Palermo Viejo still have the original cobble stones. In addition to being charming to look at, they slow down cars to a safe speed. In Manhattan the few remaining cobble stone streets are almost like landmarks. I have only a passing familiarity with the outer neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, but I wouldn`t be surprised if half the residential streets here still had cobble stones.

Medialunas

They call croissants "medialunas" or half-moons. Yummy!

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.