Preservation – Documentary Shooters

October 22, 2023 No Comments

Jean’s Gams, El Paso, Texas, 1975

Photo and Text by Bruce Berman

All the signs are gone, or gone to a hipster bar somewhere in America. The Funk is sanitized. Hosiery bar? Really? How un Gucci.
For me that era was a treasure chest waiting for me to open it and when I did… TREASURE!
You got anything to compare to this, now?
Somehow the Walmart Women’s section just doesn’t have the juice.
Is there anywhere on this planet now that isn’t manufactured?
I think there is.
Not sharing. Going. My soul needs authenticity. I guess everyone’s does. We’re on our own.

NO THROW AWAY

Text by Bruce Berman, Editor

Whether you play guitar, do not play guitar, have no interest in playing guitar or don’t get enough sleep because you can’t stop playing the guitar, this is one of the most soothing videos we have ever seen.
It’s about more than the guitar.
Craftsmanship still exists. Everything is gone if it doesn’t. And there is nothing that should be thrown away except from our petroleum-based, plastic mess that our “stuff” is now mostly made of.
Watch as he repairs and brings this back to life -for another 100 years?- without ruining its acquired character.
In a throw-away world there is hope for a quality existence.

JEAN’S GAMS, EL PASO, TEXAS

NO THROW AWAY