West Main Street: Then and now
West Main Street: Then and now
In 1979, Chicago resident Duncan Brown was a UVA first-year taking his first photography class. His assignment: take a walk down West Main Street.
"I was definitely out of my element," he recalls. "Nobody ever went down West Main back then."
Brown never became a professional photographer. He dropped out of UVA in 1982 to open a restaurant and arcade over on JPA called Professor Fethers (a reference to Poe's story, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether), worked at GE Fanuc for a time, then left for Chicago to work for a company that, appropriately enough, made pinball machines.
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