My dad used to travel internationally for business when I was a kid. He’d get these liquor bottles while flying KLM. He’d bring them home and my mom would line them up on the bookcase in the living room. This cute white and blue miniature street getting longer every few months, making a miniature world, sitting right next to the books placed side by side which are also in their way miniature worlds. I thought photographing these little Dutch houses against the backdrop of North Beach would be charming. Later, I looked these tiny liquor bottles up and found that not only does KLM still make these, but they keep track of them and that, of course, there’s even an app for them. Anyway, blah blah blah, I think what we have here is (from left to right) #44 which was once part of an orphanage; #16 which is the sort of house that becomes wider toward the rear; #43 which, I guess, has had a lot of work done? Looking good, #43, looking good. Then we have #12 which is, maybe, an imaginary house based on actual houses; and #63 known as Keizersgracht 407 which I looked up on Google and saw the actual house on the actual street and discovered that there’s also a lovely actual canal too. Wow.
Finding these on the internet and being able to look at the houses and “be” on the street and zoom around was wonderful fun. Sometimes I like the internet. Sometimes.