D&H Drug on Broadway
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 In early February 2011 Columbia was hit by a blizzard. This storm was not a hyperbolic blizzard, or something that resembled a blizzard…it was a blizzard by definition. Twenty inches of snow fell, temperatures dropped, winds howled…and this photograph was taken during the height of the blizzard of 2011. D&H Drug is…
KOPN
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 Signed Print Available This photograph is as much about the weather as it is about the glow of the neon letters on the other side of Broadway. This was taken in January, during the magically snowy winter of 2011. This was the second or third in a series of snowstorms that eventually…
Broadway Diner in Snow
Broadway DinerColumbia, MO2011 Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 Signed Print Available I started sequencing the images in my 2023 gallery show at Columbia College beginning with this image of the Broadway Diner…if this show were a book, the Broadway Diner photograph would be the first image in the book. The Broadway Diner is a location that…
Heidelberg (2001)
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2001 This photograph was taken some time between December 2000 and February 2001, while standing in the middle of Ninth Street with a Nikon film camera mounted on a tripod, with one eye on the composition, and my other eye watching for oncoming traffic. I had been waiting to discover the correct…
Teller’s on a Snowy Night, Ninth and Broadway
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 There was a time in my life when nights at Teller’s were a weekly institution. If you have followed the posts I make each Friday morning, you might have heard me wax poetic about the beauty and snowy intensity of the winter of 2011. It was a seemingly endless winter of…
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Osama’s Coffee Zone (1998)
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOMarch, 1998 This photograph was taken on the same snowy evening as the image of north Tenth Street that I posted here last week. On Sunday, March 8, 1998, Columbia experienced a particularly wet and heavy snowfall. I left the house with two film cameras and several rolls of black and white film,…
Osama’s In Snowfall
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 In 2011 Columbia enjoyed a long and snowy winter. The snows that year started in mid-January, and lingered, with varying degrees of intensity, until April. This photograph was taken in late January outside Osama’s Coffee Zone, at 11 North Ninth Street, just as a winter storm was sinking its icy teeth…
South Ninth Street in 2011
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 We are back on Columbia’s South Ninth Street again, during a January snowstorm in 2011. While some of my earlier images of South Ninth Street focused on the east side of the street, this photo gives us a view of the west side of the street, including several retail storefronts and…
Quinton’s on a Snowy Night, South Ninth Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO1998 Quinton’s on Ninth Street. I think I only patronized this establishment a rare handful of times…maybe twice. Not that I had any issues with Quinton’s, but it just wasn’t my kind of place. In 1998, when this photo was taken, my kind of place would have been The Heidelberg, Shakespeare’s, or Billiards. …
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Steps to Niedermeyer Building, Cherry Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 These steps belong to a building that has known many names. From a women’s academy serving as the nucleus for Stephens College, to the Cottage Hotel, to the Gordon Hotel, to the Niedermeyer Apartments, and now Rooms on Cherry, this edifice has endured for 188 years in downtown Columbia. This photograph…
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D & M Sound, Corner of Eighth and Locust
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 Tracing the available Columbia Sanborn Fire Insurance maps back to 1902, 1908, 1914 and 1925, the southwest corner of Eighth and Locust was a wood frame dwelling until at least 1914. This means the beautiful brick building that houses D & M Sound and occupies this corner with grace and charm was…
View of 10th Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2002/2003 or 2008/2009 I am posting this image today not just as a retrospective view of this corner of Tenth and Locust but also as a visual moment of peace after a very difficult week. I have posted photographic views of Tenth Street once or twice during this series, and chances are I…
Lamp and Tree, East Parkway
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2008/2009 Since moving to Columbia in the 90s, I have been fortunate to live in several different neighborhoods in our city. When I moved out of the East Campus neighborhood, a friend and I rented a house on McBaine Avenue. This photograph displays a view I saw on an almost daily basis when…
Candy Factory, Seventh and Cherry
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 Columbia’s Candy Factory has been a welcome and delicious feature of downtown Columbia for just over 50 years. Its current location, in this building on the corner of Seventh and Cherry, was once home to a portion of Columbia’s early publishing industry, built in 1946 for the Columbia Tribune. Before the…
College Avenue Car Wash, Corner of College Avenue and Wilkes Boulevard
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO——- This might be the first photo I have shown that was taken on Columbia’s College Avenue. The first house I rented in Columbia was located on College, albeit at the south end. The College Avenue Car Wash was located on the north end of College, a stretch that featured car repair shops,…
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Office Depot, East Broadway
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 This photograph was taken on a busy night for me, as any major snowstorm was a reason for me to be outside photographing Columbia. This also represents another documentation of a Columbia building or structure that has been developed or significantly changed since the photograph was made. In 2011 Office Depot…
Looking North from the Intersection of Locust and South 8th Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 I took this photograph in January 2011 during a heavy snowfall. During this snowfall I took four separate photographs from this location, each in a different direction. The four images are meant to function together, with the title Cardinal Points in a Snowstorm. I don’t often title my images in such fanciful…
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Sake Japanese Bistro, Tenth Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 Unlike some of the photographs I have taken of downtown Columbia since the late 1990s, this view of Sake has not significantly changed since the image was made. Once again, January 2011 was a very productive time for me, and this image was taken on a snowy night, with falling snow…
Tiger Barber Shop, Ninth Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MOJanuary, 2011 With spring truly here, and a very warm weekend approaching, I thought it was an appropriate time to bring us back to the snowy streets of downtown Columbia on a winter’s night. This photo of the Tiger Barber Shop was taken in January 2011. I had been intrigued by the building’s…
Hitt and Locust
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 This is an image that performs better when you don’t enlarge it. I have tried to view this photo as a large image that fills the screen, and as a tiny image that occupies only a thumbnail of space. And its sweet spot is somewhere in between. To enlarge it is to…
Ragtag Cinema, Hitt Street
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2011 When I made this photograph during the winter of 2011, this building on Hitt Street was still a fairly new location for Ragtag Cinema. At the time it also housed the wonderful Ninth Street Video, no longer on Ninth Street, and Uprise Bakery. Two buildings north of this, on the corner of…
Ron’s Country Boy
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2003 I find myself coming back to Columbia’s Sixth Street again, this time the corner of Sixth and Broadway is our focus. When I first moved to Columbia in 1995, this was the home of Ron’s Country Boy. When I left Columbia in 2003 to move to Milwaukee, this corner was still home…
Francis Quadrangle Snowfall
Stephen BybeeColumbia, MO2002 Because the images in my last two weekly posts explored a common theme, I decided to continue working with that theme while I have the material to do so. Much of my night photography revolves around documenting the streets, corners, intersections, structures and vistas of downtown Columbia in a solitary fashion. Every…