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Photography by Ira Gardner

Growing Up

Posted on December 4, 2017
Image of a life size poster of John Wayne and a pinball machine.
Life size John Wayne poster and pinball machine in the Checkerboard Tavern. Spokane, WA January, 2012

When I was a child I had terrible ear aches and eventually had to have surgery to put tubes in my ears.  I couldn’t sleep at night because of the pain.  My mother would let me stay up late and watch old movies. I grew up loving John Wayne movies so I couldn’t resist making this image of his life size poster and the pinball machine at the Checkerboard Tavern.

Camera: Canon 5D
January, 2012

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