I liked the Real Estate Photographer strips. I’ll have to give this a try.
There was a Julius Knipl radio show on NPR for a while. Really, just a segment. I forget when it ran. Jerry Stiller was on it, maybe some other old time radio guys.
The lost urban environment mention reminds me of a place my father told us about. The ancient gas stove at our shabby old vacation cabin - really a hunter’s shack - had a broken cast-iron fitting. My father brought it to NYC when visiting a friend. They somehow found a warehouse / parts outlet in a modering old brick building in an industrial part of Brooklyn. (The kind of place that is probably a gentrified loft by now.) Behind the front desk was and old guy who looked at the part for a moment, then shouted to someone bak in the dark, looming towers of shelves. Paraphrasing: “Hey, Manny! Get me a left hand Knordler plate for Nordge model 18!”
Another old guy showed up a few minutes later with the part.
I can totally imagine Knipl showing up at such a place.
