Portland, Oregon

22 Jun 2015

The canopy recalls the architecture of strip clubs. It is thought not to be necessary to include an area code with the phone number: This is Wichita Falls and you already know what the area code is. Stars are not often gray.

The building is from 1950. According to historical roadside and satellite imagery at Google Streetview and Google Earth, the canopy structure was completed sometime between February 2018 and May 2020.

The absence of protective bollards around the support piers of the canopy is an invitation to motorists to spectacularly crash their cars into them.

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In downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, on February 14th, 2023, at A to Z Bail Bonds on the north side of 7th Street, east of Lamar Street, during a duststorm.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, a mixed-use building (built in 2005) at the northeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue.

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A sidewalk or signicade sign are lightweight and portable, and bring attention to what you're selling!

O'Signs, Inc.

325 N. Hoyne Avenue

#C326

Chicago, IL 60612

(312)8883386

Just for context really. Someone must be looking after it, as it has been vandalised in the past.

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Go in and tell them to style you a hairdo that looks like a merger of siding and awning.

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In downtown Sturgis, Michigan, on April 21st, 2024, on the east side of South Nottawa Street, south of East Chicago Road.

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Levi's Overalls

"Let's make it black on yellow," went the decision.

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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, on the south side of Pine Avenue (U.S. 62 Business Route) between 28th Street and 29th Street.

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Sporting a FOLDED PLATE CANOPY with plants on top was the Freeport Glass Company.

Real estate websites such as "Spokeo" and "Xome" assert that there's a building from 1932 in there, behind the 1950s-1970s-looking façade.

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, the Freeport Glass Company on the north side of East Main Street, east of South Adams Avenue.

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SignQuest

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Here, see a picture of the building in 1999, at which time it was occupied by "Don's Rent-All."

According to Google Streetview, it got the stucco (or EIFS) and the blue paint sometime between October 2007 and October 2011.

Are you pleased by the building's appearance.

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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, Universal Wireless at 2930 Pine Ave (built in 1945) on the north side of Pine Avenue (U.S. 62 Business Route), opposite 30th Street.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, a view of the west elevation of the north end of the "Grow Block" at the northeast corner of North Ball Street and West Exchange Street, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the historic district's documentation, the first floor of this part of the building was built between 1894 and 1900, as an extension of the original building, which was built in 1890. The second floor of the extension was added between 1900 and 1908. The building was occupied by a Montgomery Ward store from approximately 1930 to 1980.

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I bought a microwave oven with a recessed plastic dial knob.

This is in Three Rivers, Michigan, far from a shoreline. The lighthouse illustration is in reference to a miniature lighthouse of fieldstones displayed in a park nearby.

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In downtown Three Rivers, Michigan, on April 4th, 2021, on the east side of Railroad Drive north of West Michigan Avenue, in the Downtown Three Rivers Commercial Historic District, 82004472 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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