of this guy?

I came across this photo taken by Esteban Diacono (who, BTW, has some great photos) the other day when I was browsing through Flickr.

But, I’ve seen this guy before late one Sunday night when Ceci and I were sitting in La Academia on Callao. He was dressed exactly the same but without the hat. Then he got up to leave and, with a flick of the wrist, out came the top hat! I hadn’t seen him since, so it was a fun surprise to see this photo on Flickr. The guy looks like quite a character so I was just wondering if anyone knew his story.

Following-up to the post about trendy stores coming into San Telmo is this photo of the words “This is not Palermo” scrawled on the wall of the new Puma store just off Defensa.

See a previous post about real estate in San Telmo for a stencil on the same topic.

Meanwhile, also spotted in San Telmo was this scribble on a wall along Defensa with the reminder: Let’s treat the tourists well.

Few people venture along the side streets behind Constitución station but there are some pleasant surprises (and I’m not talking about the transvestite prostitutes, though there are indeed plenty of trany hookers - or is the word “transy”?).

If you walk around the area on a bright sunny day you’ll see that it’s not so bad, hardly the red light district that some imagine. There’s actually some interesting architecture in the area and this post continues my series on the city that fades away.

This photo, taken late last year, is of a building facade on a street named 15 de Noviembre de 1889 that starts just behind the train station.