{"id":49,"date":"2009-02-03T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:36:22","slug":"john_ades_carrot_peeler_dead_at_75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/john_ades_carrot_peeler_dead_at_75\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ades, Carrot Peeler, Dead At 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/real-estate\/john-ades-integral-part-union-square-landscape-dies\">I always wondered who this guy was<\/a> &#8212; I saw vegetable peeler-purveyor John Ades\/took pictures of him two different times.  The pictures sat on the hard drive for a while &#8212; What was it? Who was he? How do you classify it? I tried googling it but what do you google, &#8220;peeler guy manhattan&#8221;? In retrospect, I should have googled the Daily News clip in the background with the headline &#8220;A Slice of the Street Action&#8221; . . . I would have come across <a href=\"http:\/\/flickriver.com\/photos\/49135144@N00\/2877750056\">this<\/a>. Then one day I just finally labeled a page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/pitch\/index.htm\">&#8220;The Pitch&#8221;<\/a> under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/index.htm\">&#8220;Curiosities&#8221;<\/a> and uploaded the pictures there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/03\/nyregion\/03ades.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">John Ades passed away last Sunday, February 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is in Lower Manhattan probably about 3 years ago (I think &#8212; I can&#8217;t quite remember):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/pitch\/02pitch.jpg\" alt=\"The Pitch, Broadway, Lower Manhattan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here he is in Union Square in September 2008:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/curiosities\/pitch\/03unionsquare09-19-08.jpg\" alt=\"The Pitch, Union Square, Manhattan, September 19, 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah &#8212; I always wondered who this guy was &#8212; I saw vegetable peeler-purveyor John Ades\/took pictures of him two different times. The pictures sat on the hard drive for a while &#8212; What was it? Who was he? How do you classify it? I tried googling it but what do you google, &#8220;peeler guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}