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Original - Randy's Donuts of Inglewood, California, constructed in 1954.
Edit 1 - sRGB conversion, color balance adjusted, selective NR.
Reason
After scrounging the Library of Congress archives for cultural icons of Southern California, heaven help us--this turned up. Edited from the original slightly damaged scan, per upload notes. Somewhere there's got to be a good shot of a Frank Lloyd Wright building to balance out the karma. Until then, have a laugh.
Articles this image appears in
Randy's Donuts, Novelty architecture
Creator
Carol Highsmith
Yeah, but this is an old photo from the NPS.
I don't know what the NPS is, but the photo was (apparently) taken in 2005. Maedin\talk 17:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
According to this edit it dates from 2009-03-12 (personal grumble on continuing misinformation on image pages). And even if it was old - so what? Maedin's point was basically that the building still exists in this same form and could easily be retaken, so we don't need an old photo of it. --jjron (talk) 10:54, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well that is just the date of the derivative work as uploaded by Bilderbot. The original is a film scan and only has a digitization date. Mfield (talk) 15:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Original image page clearly says "Donut sign from 1954, photo taken in 2005". Given the photographer was born in 1946 according to the same image page, I doubt she took it when she was 8 (yet more grumbles about misinformation on image pages). --jjron (talk) 08:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yea, these image pages were in rough shape. I've cleaned them up, but I don't know the source. No link on the page sent me explicitly to the source of the image. Does anybody know? ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 16:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support Edit1 It's a beautiful picture, but too bad a small part of the building on the right is cut off. This could have been easily corrected by the original photographer. The edit is nice, but there's still some vignetting in the upper corners. I don't find the shadows to be distracting, since they don't obscure a lot of detail and are not abundant. It comes to my attention that a lot of users on FPC are "over obsessed" with shadows... --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 23:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support edit 1 per Massimo. Would be a full support if the corner wasn't cut off. Matt Deres (talk) 00:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Randy's donuts1 edit1.jpg MER-C 08:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    • I was about to oppose this, but got an edit conflict. It needs vertical perspective correction and there is a lighter band down the LHS for some reason. The photoshop-applied graduated ND effect has left banding in the sky too (fairly subtle). Noodle snacks (talk) 08:47, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]