{"id":62152,"date":"2023-11-10T03:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62152"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:40:43","slug":"the-door-to-the-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/the-door-to-the-cellar\/","title":{"rendered":"The door to the cellar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found an old postcard of Weybosset Street, showing what must be the entrance door for Lovecraft&#8217;s favourite Providence second-hand bookseller (see my long article on &#8216;Uncle Eddy&#8217; in the <em>Lovecraft Annual<\/em>). Sadly it&#8217;s only a small 600px CardCow picture, with no larger available unless one buys the physical card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1914-ProvidenceRI-Weybosset-Street-Rhode-Island-Blanchard-Young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1914-ProvidenceRI-Weybosset-Street-Rhode-Island-Blanchard-Young.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1914-ProvidenceRI-Weybosset-Street-Rhode-Island-Blanchard-Young.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1914-ProvidenceRI-Weybosset-Street-Rhode-Island-Blanchard-Young-528x341.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>The distinctive dome-roof building on the corner gives the orientation. It can still be seen on Google StreetView.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, even a basic AI-powered enlargement (Topaz GigaPixel AI) makes it clear the entrance door that would have led down to the cellar bookshop, said to have been the largest &#8216;open shelves&#8217; store in Providence. The Dana&#8217;s store was perhaps larger in stock by the time of Lovecraft&#8217;s death, but their two-floor storerooms were not open to public browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Here I&#8217;ve subtly highlighted the entrance door&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/enlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/enlarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/enlarge.jpg 647w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/enlarge-528x567.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found an old postcard of Weybosset Street, showing what must be the entrance door for Lovecraft&#8217;s favourite Providence second-hand &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/the-door-to-the-cellar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62176,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62152\/revisions\/62176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}