January 27, 2005
Using A9 to photoblog the Kennedy Fried Chicken chain
A9, Amazon's search engine, added photos to their new Yellow Pages service today. They drove around in trucks and took millions of GPS-tagged images, and then correlated them with addresses in their listings. Amazing.
Last month, Mike at the NYC photoblog Satan's Laundromat posted a bunch of photos of various Kennedy Fried Chicken stores around the city.
The Kennedy Fried Chicken phenomenon has interested me for quite a while, so I thought it would be funny to combine A9 with Mike's idea: use A9 to assemble a photo catalog of Kennedy Fried Chicken storefronts. Unfortunately, A9's photo survey didn't cover a lot of the neighborhoods where the stores are. Of the 20 "KFC" stores, only 3 (almost 4) are pictured.
Anyway, here's what I came up with:
A9 says there is another one at 536 E. 14th in Manhattan, but the photos of that area show only a palm reader and a Chinese take-out place. (You have to "walk left" to find the proper address.) Update: Thanks to Lia, who tracked it down on A9, it's now pictured above.
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posted by adm at January 27, 2005 06:15 PM
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You seem very angry
Posted by: Sharon Creamer at April 29, 2005 09:24 AM
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I did the "walk left" thing and found the Kennedy Fried Chicken on E 14th but it's mostly hidden from view by tree branches, alas. Great idea!
Posted by: lia at March 21, 2005 09:44 PM