steveb leatherworks: the blather

Scene:                      the Lake Erie waterfront, Dug’s Dive, Buffalo NY Situation Analysis:  small boat fire, owner running for fire extinguisher, police on scene Spectator:                Wiz Immediate Assessment: no big deal, this will be out in 10 minutes…… Part 2 […]

Overbaked by my standards, but still a pretty piece o chrome arn, I saw this stinker at the Sycamore one afternoon. Funny, I was standing there looking at it, camera in hand ready to award it the Coontail award of the day, thinking to my superior self, “oh man, he must a paid some heavy […]

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faces tell alot about the world a person lives in..some faces are 10 miles of hard road and others are babes like, full of innocence and wonder. In the workaday world in NYC, often the only break you get from your routine is if you “run down” for a smoke. I know that I looked forward […]

What would we do without pictures of the people we love, of the people that are gone – but certainly not forgotten. I think these visual reference points are important, I know they help me keep my sail filled with wind, even in the doldrums- and my compass set. 

Umberto’s is a pretty good clam house, often in the dog days of summer they set up a oyster bar  right on the street so you can pick up a ncie cold refreshing oyster or clam, right there for $2-4 ea. niiice!  An added bonus is that their cocktail sauce has so much horseradish in […]

Lame, ridiculous, excessive, unnecessary…but in some twisted way…. useful.. I am ashamed to say i kinda dig it. I hear the snickers….Bad enough i drive a garbage barge, but to add crap like this to it seems like unecessary buffoonery. I know, I know – but if youve ever been on the road trying to […]

Even in this day and age – they cant give this POS away. Come an get ’em!!!

visit 45dgree to get the nitty gritty on this chilly visit

NYC never sleeps, it rests when it has to, but it really doesnt get true shuteye.

Freddy and I spent some time toolin round the outer boroughs of NYC today. We saw some questionable style in regards to the chrome helmeted metric rider. Chrome Domes are sooo yesterday…ya know.

One of the things l like best about old towns is that they have history just about everywhere, if you care to look. Personally, I like to look, and found these pavement markers embedded in some quality sidewalk concrete in Buffalo. Amazing to think that these sidewalks have lasted so long given the weather extremes […]

Well after some pretty major rebuilding in the Spring , the TR6 has been back on the road and I must pay Freddy big props for doing it right. We’ve not gotten stuck or had a breakdown once this season. ha, now we’re screwed, eh? Anyway, Freddy’s had a TR in the family for years […]

Pupkin threw his annual July 4th party this year, as one could predict, it being an annual event an all. I captured some nice images of the local fireworks… and thought now would be a nice time to share and enjoy now that summer is nearly in the rearview. This summer flew by, holy shit. 

Ya know what they did? They tried fecking up Freddy and mine favorite shot and a beer joint the Duck – by showcasing it on TV, yes they did – but they DID NOT succeed.  Guy Fierie seems like a nice enough guy but when his “Diner, Dives & joints, whatever…” showcased one of my […]

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American hero, a bit of a nut, he was brilliant,  he was an iconic architect and notably  he was a  designer. This is a guy who is a national treasure. This house, The Martin House is worth seeing if you are ever in the Buffalo area. Don’t be a know-nothing, […]

I had an experience I wanted to share…check it out here…. Here’s a little backstory. I was out tooling around “the Valley”. It was a beautiful day, I felt like busting out of the shop for a bit so i grabbed my camera and beat feet. I really didn’t have a specific agenda and didn’t […]

I love seeing things like this pull out of peoples garages. It gives me hope that America still has some of what made things like this possible: craft, ingenuity, pride, money and love.

Back about 10 lifetimes ago, I worked at a bar call the Continental. This place was the epicenter of punk rock, cheap drinks and a good rowdy time in Buffalo, NY, a place i called home . My best friends at the time worked and/or partied there and it was 2 floors of nuttiness… Bud, […]

I have got to have a good Italian bakery near where i live… and lucky for me, I do. Welcome to DiMare bakery. The make it all folks, even my super special most favorite of all deserts, Italian Cheesecake – made with Ricotta, rather than Cream Cheese.  They even fresh fill my cannoli’s right there […]

I grew up with cars like this. They ruled the roost. In NYC, where I grew up we had alot of urban hot rodders. Most of the fast baddass cars we young male teens all boned for, were like this beauty sitting here. I dont recall many  of the old style cut downs, slammed, chopped […]

More random images from my rambles through Manhattan. Grand entrances, mysterious/odd store fronts and the absolutely normal, as ingested every day seen through my lens. Hope you enjoy these utterly common and mundane images as much as I do….a celebration of our ecosystem.

When this man isn’t installing floor coverings for a living, you can find him here selling some fine dogs. The truck is clean, the kraut and mustard fresh and tasty and the buns soft – perfect.  And he’s got cream soda!