NYC: January 2005 Archives
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.
