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An Ann Arbor News Photo, undoubtedly by Eck Stanger -- from the Ann Arbor District Library's OLD NEWS website.
The "Neon Signs" business, and the Ann Arbor Fluff Rug Co., together occupied what is now Ann Arbor's oldest commercial building, which had been erected in 1834 by Anson Brown, onetime Ann Arbor Postmaster, and the activist kingpin of "Lower Town" Ann Arbor -- the portion that lies north of the Huron River -- also long known as the Fifth Ward. That building is now occupied by the the St. Vincent dePaul resale store, which has been there for decades.
The four-story building attached to it in 1937 had had its windows removed in anticipation of a drastic remodeling that removed the two upper floors. In the mid-19th century this had been the Medical Works Building, owned by the clairvoyant physician, Dr. Daniel B. Kellogg. It is a pity that the upper floors were lost, because there were rumors in town, no longer susceptible to confirmation, that Kellogg had a system of speaking tubes and wires concealed in the walls, that could be manipulated by his relatives to simulate ringing bells and ghost messages -- designed to satisfy the doctor's clients that he was in two-way communication with the Spirit World.
Dr. Kellogg's advertisement in the 1872 Ann Arbor City Directory: www.flickr.com/photos/70251312@N00/5906585871/
Steve Stricklen, 64, tells me that Wurster Dairy (at right) went bankrupt in 1938, and that his parents took over the building, which became the HQ of their Cloverleaf Dairy. In 1966, Stricklen's father told him to remove the building's false front (visible here), which was coming apart. (The front had been constructed for Wurster Dairy "on the cheap" by a contractor named Hilbert. It lent a cachet of modernism to the building, which had been a homely-looking automobile repair garage.) The Dairy building is now the location of the Northside Grill -- successor to the Cloverleaf Lunch, which moved to the NE corner of Liberty and Fourth Avenue.
[September 2012].
I have no idea if this is even close to being old, but nowhere around it was something even resembling a "Dairy Way."
Beverly, Chicago. I'd seen it before but maybe not at night, and got food there for the first time--chili cheese dog and pineapple shake
Ramsay Sign Co. installs the historically replicated "candlestick" neon blade sign on the historic 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam, WA. This is a replication of the original sign from 1928 which was on the building for less than 20 years.
PA, Campbelltown PA, Rising Sun.
I've never eaten here before, but when I stopped to snap the pic the food smelled AMAZING. I will try it some time. Two entrances, one for bar and one for dining. In Campbelltown, Pennsylvania.
Photographed from an open topped double decker bus during an evening tour of central Las Vegas, Nevada in the USA.
Love to shoot neon signs, they always offer such cool colors and awesome contrast
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On the north side of Highway 26 just east of the downtown district in Prineville, Crook County, central Oregon.
To anyone thinking of visiting Vancouver BC, this is the part of the city with the most character. The heart of East Van is Commercial drive, aka 'The Drive".This part of the city Is a very blue collar, down to earth place and home to the world famous, 'Lower east side.'
The building is 1923, the Vitrolite storefront is 1934, and the sign/clock is 1956 (as I later learned from the 2004 book _Art Deco in Detroit_)
Graham: "This sign makes it look like they sell paperbacks about double-penetration."
Some Kid: "DOUBLE PENETRATION!"
Graham: "IT'S NO FUN IF YOU DON'T ASK FOR IT"
Etc.
Cow Town USA
To my Flickr friends:
I'm going to give Flickr a try again. I'm still upset with the company for many reasons. My photos are still blurry on my photo page. But others have said they look just fine to them. Here's a link to the problem I'm dealing with:
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But I still have so much I want to do here on Flickr that's it's impossible to stay away. I just got back from a 3 week road trip where I took over 6,000 photos. I want to share them. Plus, I still haven't published thousands of other photos from numerous other trips. I'm really itching to continue. So I'm going to delve in again. I'm far from a happy camper now, but, for better or worse. I'm back. For the time being, at least.