Charm on Judson Street, Philadelphia

Philadelphia City Hall, August 6, 10:48 a.m.

This photo was taken from the east side of Philadelphia City Hall. It's an old building, so they apparently had to use window air-conditioners.

A weathered red brick building features a rusted metal door, with two bricked-up windows and an air-conditioning unit on its wall. Near the building's corner, there is an overgrown patch of grass, and in the background, a blue pickup truck is parked alongside urban structures.

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Write me a song called "The Building is from 1959." No don't.

The teal panels and the pale green glazed bricks and the rounded corners of selected windows are attractive even yet. The awful plastic films on the windows are very unattractive, really really bad-looking.

The venetian blinds and vents and air conditioner are neither attractive nor unattractive.

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In downtown McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on July 1st, 2019, outside the McKeesport Muncipal Building (completed 1959 and designed by Celli-Flynn, site of city hall from 1959 to 2006), at the northwest corner of Lysle Boulevard (Pennsylania Route 148) and Blackberry Street.

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Hey the building was erected in 1915 as the Ocala Knitting and Manufacturing Company, a Black-owned manufacturer of cotton underwear.

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In downtown Ocala, Florida, on March 6th, 2019, at the southeast corner of Southeast 1st Avenue and Southeast 3rd Street.

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new york city

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the puck building

295 lafayette street

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Repeating Elements

This residential building is one a row of three closely-spaced, detached brick houses with Gothic details on Claflin Avenue, between Eames Place and W. 195th Street in the Bronx, New York City.

Based on a brief item in the NY Times, dated 24 October 1925, it appears this group of houses was designed by Horace Ginsberg (who later changed his name to Ginsbern), a prominent Bronx architect. The text in the paper: "Claflin Avenue, west side, 79.04 feet north of Eames Place - Three 2-story brick dwellings, 30 x 54.4 feet. Keliman & Rosen, owners. Horace Ginsbeg, architect. $25,000"

Ginsberg/Ginsbern is better known for his work designing apartment houses, including the Art Deco style Park Plaza apartments on Jerome Avenue, which is a NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the "Fish Building," on the Grand Concourse.

Claflin Avenue takes its name from the Claflin Estate, a large property in the northern Bronx which was one of the last large properties sold when it was subdivided and put up for auction in 1919 as the area urbanized with the extension of subway lines providing service to Manhattan. H.B. (Horace Brigham) Claflin was a "merchant prince of New York" and when his former estate was put up for sale, an ad for the auction, alluding to his mercantile background, stated that "Real Estate is Merchandise." See: digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83acfcf0-69ca-0131-665c...

new london, connecticut

1974

chester bragaw house

183 williams street

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

July 1, 2017 - We are now heading to dinner on a busy night in Hong Kong. Today is the 20th anniversary that Hong Kong was returned to Mainland China and after dinner we walked through Temple Street known for shopping followed by a ride on the subway since our bus was stuck in traffic. We then met up with our bus and drove up Victoria Peak to watch the celebratory fireworks display.

"If it weren't from 1946 I wouldn't care about this building at all!" I exclaimed as I took pictures.

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, an office building on the north side of 5th Street between College Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue.

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The staircase users are happy to be indoors, I bet.

Wow this siding looks great when it gets RAKED BY SUNLIGHT on summer evenings.

Six mailboxes.

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In downtown North Tonawanda, New York, on June 9th, 2021, the side of a commercial building with upstairs apartments at the northwest corner of Webster Street and Tremont Street.

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"Mim's Bar" used to occupy the downstairs. Do you think Buick LaCrosses are beautiful?

A funfact about this building from my family history: In 1966 my parents met and fell in love when they were trapped in the upstairs apartment with several other people for an entire night. Their romance didn't last but here I am!

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In downtown Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, 331 Merchant St (built 1923, a "contributing property" in the Ambridge Commercial Historic District, 100005420 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of Merchant Street, north of Duss Avenue.

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"Oh my goodness what an abundance of anchor plates!" I said gaily as I lifted my camera to my face.

I am attracted to that style of graffiti between the two roll-down doors.

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In downtown Los Angeles on April 23rd, 2019, a building (erected 1925) at the southwest corner of East 3rd Street and Wall Street.

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During fallout emergencies will the freemasons be required to refrain from inflicting their creepy rituals onto the gathered shelterees. Ha ha the "raining missile" graphics on fallout shelter signs look like Trivial Pursuit gamepieces don't they.

I am architecturally sad to have the full expression of the fascinating grid of ornamental Xs be interrupted by a bulky and cumbersome air conditioner but I can understand that people would want to try to be cool in summer.

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In downtown Ironton, Ohio, on January 2nd, 2011, a Masonic Temple erected in 1917, on the west side of North 3rd Street (a pedestrian plaza), north of Center Street.

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Sent from my stoopid iPhone

The latticework of the upstairs porch is likely never again to feel a resting ass pressed up agin it is it. Those old days ended. Nobody's ever gonna trust any piece of it to support any part of them.

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In downtown Hundred, West Virginia, on July 15th, 2010, a building on the east side of Wetzel Street, south of Pennsylvania Avenue (West Virginia Route 69).

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During the Florida East Coast Railway Society 2008 Convention in Miami, there was a Bus Trip on September 27, 2008 to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. The GCRRM is located at 12450 South West 152nd Street, next to the Miami Zoo. All of the FECRS Members, who attended the Convention Bus Trip, were given a CAB Ride on the FEC E8A, which Railfans affectionately refer to as a Covered Wagon.

This photo shows Florida East Coast (aka: FEC) Railway Maintenance of Way (aka: MOW) Car renumbered Number 1996 inside the Train Shed.

new london, connecticut

1974

chester bragaw house

183 williams street

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

During the Florida East Coast Railway Society 2008 Convention in Miami, there was a Bus Trip on September 27, 2008 to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. The GCRRM is located at 12450 South West 152nd Street, next to the Miami Zoo. All of the FECRS Members, who attended the Convention Bus Trip, were given a CAB Ride on the FEC E8A, which Railfans affectionately refer to as a Covered Wagon.

This photo shows Florida East Coast (aka: FEC) Railway Maintenance of Way (aka: MOW) Car renumbered Number 1996 inside the Train Shed.

Also in this photo is part of US Army Hospital Car Number 89436; notice the Red Cross Logo.

I am happy to report that this charming duplex was built in 1996, according to various real estate websites. Wonderful!

Hey why don't you fling open those shutters this pretty day! Haha I'm just kidding they don't open.

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In downtown Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on June 30th, 2019, a duplex at the northwest corner of East Otterman Street (Pennsylvania Route 130, the Lincoln Highway) and Wilson Avenue.

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If I pay real real close attention to photocomposition I will maybe start to understand my surroundings better?, that's what I'm trying to think.

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In south Minneapolis on March 1st, 2010, "Signe Burckhardt Manor," a Minneapolis Public Housing Authority assisted-living facility erected in 1966, at the northeast corner of 1st Avenue South and East 26th Street.

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Bumper poles stop so-called Accurate Dumpsters from rolling off the slopey sidewalks and out into traffic. The commingled brick and asphalt surfaces of Cuthbert Street's driving lane exhibit the effects of a long long history of heaving and settling.

The "the" in "The Chinese Noodle Factory" implies the presence of a silent and invisible "REAL" or "ONE AND ONLY GENUINE" after it.

This picture is OLD!, it's from last March, so the upper right-hand is possibly an enclosed residence by now.

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In Chinatown in Philadelphia on March 25th, 2011, "The Chinese Noodle Factory" on the north side of Cuthbert Street, east of North 10th Street.

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Appliance Repair Staten Island

303 Buel Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10305

(646) 200-5806

appliancerepairstatenisland@gmail.com

www.appliancerepairstatenisland.net

Appliance Repair Staten Island has been around since 1992 servicing New York's commercial and residential HVAC needs. We are your full service air conditioning, heating and ventilation contractor. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and installation.

We are Staten Island’s premier HVAC installation and service contractor specializing in air conditioning installation and service, including ductless mini-split systems, heating systems, furnace and boilers repair and installation, and hot water heater service and installation.

Appliance Repair Staten Island is a full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor. We have grown in every year in size and scope of service because of our commitment to timely and thorough customer service, communication, and most importantly, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient operation of your HVAC system.

Our service technicians have many years of experience in the HVAC trade, and we invite our customers to ask questions and seek to improve the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in their homes and offices. Nothing makes us happier than providing our customers with the peace of mind that their families will be comfortable in their homes and their business will not be interrupted with HVAC-related breakdowns.

We diagnose, repair, maintain, and install portable air conditioners, window air conditioners, and home air conditioning systems, air cleaner filters, home air purifiers, whole house humidifiers, room humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers, home programmable thermostats, hot water heaters, boilers, furnaces, furnace filters, and ventilation systems.

No I'm just kidding about the house, it's actually the majorly historic "John Frissell House." It is office space nowadays, part of it at least.

The oldest part (the tall part at the back, I think) is from circa 1835. Holy shit!

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In downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, on December 23rd, 2019, the Dr. John Frissell house (a "contributing property" in the Wheeling Historic District, 79002597 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of 14th Street, east of Chapline Street.

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Appliance Repair Staten Island

303 Buel Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10305

(646) 200-5806

appliancerepairstatenisland@gmail.com

www.appliancerepairstatenisland.net

Appliance Repair Staten Island has been around since 1992 servicing New York's commercial and residential HVAC needs. We are your full service air conditioning, heating and ventilation contractor. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and installation.

We are Staten Island’s premier HVAC installation and service contractor specializing in air conditioning installation and service, including ductless mini-split systems, heating systems, furnace and boilers repair and installation, and hot water heater service and installation.

Appliance Repair Staten Island is a full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor. We have grown in every year in size and scope of service because of our commitment to timely and thorough customer service, communication, and most importantly, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient operation of your HVAC system.

Our service technicians have many years of experience in the HVAC trade, and we invite our customers to ask questions and seek to improve the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in their homes and offices. Nothing makes us happier than providing our customers with the peace of mind that their families will be comfortable in their homes and their business will not be interrupted with HVAC-related breakdowns.

We diagnose, repair, maintain, and install portable air conditioners, window air conditioners, and home air conditioning systems, air cleaner filters, home air purifiers, whole house humidifiers, room humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers, home programmable thermostats, hot water heaters, boilers, furnaces, furnace filters, and ventilation systems.

Appliance Repair Staten Island

303 Buel Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10305

(646) 200-5806

appliancerepairstatenisland@gmail.com

www.appliancerepairstatenisland.net

Appliance Repair Staten Island has been around since 1992 servicing New York's commercial and residential HVAC needs. We are your full service air conditioning, heating and ventilation contractor. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and installation.

We are Staten Island’s premier HVAC installation and service contractor specializing in air conditioning installation and service, including ductless mini-split systems, heating systems, furnace and boilers repair and installation, and hot water heater service and installation.

Appliance Repair Staten Island is a full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor. We have grown in every year in size and scope of service because of our commitment to timely and thorough customer service, communication, and most importantly, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient operation of your HVAC system.

Our service technicians have many years of experience in the HVAC trade, and we invite our customers to ask questions and seek to improve the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in their homes and offices. Nothing makes us happier than providing our customers with the peace of mind that their families will be comfortable in their homes and their business will not be interrupted with HVAC-related breakdowns.

We diagnose, repair, maintain, and install portable air conditioners, window air conditioners, and home air conditioning systems, air cleaner filters, home air purifiers, whole house humidifiers, room humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers, home programmable thermostats, hot water heaters, boilers, furnaces, furnace filters, and ventilation systems.

This is one of my favorite buildings in all of Florida but if it ever gets cleaned up and given a fresh coat of paint I will not like it anymore.

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In Gainesville, Florida, on December 31st, 2017, the backside of a commercial building on the south side of West University Avenue (Florida state roads 24 and 26), west of Southwest 10th Street.

The building was erected in 1964.

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• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)

You are in luck if you need to run errands to each of these businesses, because they're all right here handy and adjacent; and also because you're probably not hurting for money if you're patronizing these businesses, are you.

Reflexologists believe that the application of pressure to different places on a patient's feet will cure his or her misc ailments — but only provided that the ailments were codswallop to begin with.

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In south Minneapolis on October 22nd, 2010, at the northwest corner of Chicago Avenue South and East 54th Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

RM723.R43 Reflexology (Therapy)—Pictorial works.

RZ999 Healing—Pictorial works.

GV1589.4 Dance schools—United States—Pictorial works.

NC1766.U52 Goofy.

GT3911.A2 Signs and signboards—United States—Pictorial works.

HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.

F614.M56N65 Nokomis Community (Minneapolis, Minn.)—Pictorial works.

F614.M543 Minneapolis (Minn.)—Pictorial works.

It was erected in 1917 and demolished in December 2010, following a fire the previous month.

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In downtown Logan, West Virginia, on July 23rd, 2010, the Aracoma Hotel at the northeast corner of Main Street and Cole Street.

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Library of Congress classification idea:

NA7840 Hotels—United States—Pictorial works.

F249.L6 Logan (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.

The signs "Del-Rich Co." and "Neat Stuff" would have us think that there are two businesses here, but no it's a single pawnshop named "Del-Rich Loan & Neat Stuff Antiques." Each pawned antique you buy will come with an implied sad story of the poverty and desperation for which the U.S. is renowned.

The building is from 1901 according to the official documentation of the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District, which also identifies the ahistorical surface treatment on the upper floors as parge, applied over the building's original masonry.

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on May 20th, 2023, the Weinecke Block (a "contributing property" in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District, 100005546 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of Brady Street (U.S. 61 Business Route), south of West 4th Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Small business (sh85123568)

'16 '16 '16!!

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In downtown Philadelphia on January 23rd, 2020, the "Juniper Place" apartments (erected circa 1916) at the northeast corner of South Juniper Street and Irving Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Apartment houses—Pennsylvania (sh2013001539)

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Appliance Repair Staten Island

303 Buel Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10305

(646) 200-5806

appliancerepairstatenisland@gmail.com

www.appliancerepairstatenisland.net

Appliance Repair Staten Island has been around since 1992 servicing New York's commercial and residential HVAC needs. We are your full service air conditioning, heating and ventilation contractor. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and installation.

We are Staten Island’s premier HVAC installation and service contractor specializing in air conditioning installation and service, including ductless mini-split systems, heating systems, furnace and boilers repair and installation, and hot water heater service and installation.

Appliance Repair Staten Island is a full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor. We have grown in every year in size and scope of service because of our commitment to timely and thorough customer service, communication, and most importantly, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient operation of your HVAC system.

Our service technicians have many years of experience in the HVAC trade, and we invite our customers to ask questions and seek to improve the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in their homes and offices. Nothing makes us happier than providing our customers with the peace of mind that their families will be comfortable in their homes and their business will not be interrupted with HVAC-related breakdowns.

We diagnose, repair, maintain, and install portable air conditioners, window air conditioners, and home air conditioning systems, air cleaner filters, home air purifiers, whole house humidifiers, room humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers, home programmable thermostats, hot water heaters, boilers, furnaces, furnace filters, and ventilation systems.

Appliance Repair Staten Island

303 Buel Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10305

(646) 200-5806

appliancerepairstatenisland@gmail.com

www.appliancerepairstatenisland.net

Appliance Repair Staten Island has been around since 1992 servicing New York's commercial and residential HVAC needs. We are your full service air conditioning, heating and ventilation contractor. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and installation.

We are Staten Island’s premier HVAC installation and service contractor specializing in air conditioning installation and service, including ductless mini-split systems, heating systems, furnace and boilers repair and installation, and hot water heater service and installation.

Appliance Repair Staten Island is a full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor. We have grown in every year in size and scope of service because of our commitment to timely and thorough customer service, communication, and most importantly, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient operation of your HVAC system.

Our service technicians have many years of experience in the HVAC trade, and we invite our customers to ask questions and seek to improve the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in their homes and offices. Nothing makes us happier than providing our customers with the peace of mind that their families will be comfortable in their homes and their business will not be interrupted with HVAC-related breakdowns.

We diagnose, repair, maintain, and install portable air conditioners, window air conditioners, and home air conditioning systems, air cleaner filters, home air purifiers, whole house humidifiers, room humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers, home programmable thermostats, hot water heaters, boilers, furnaces, furnace filters, and ventilation systems.

In Brooklyn, New York, on September 5th, 2018, on the west side of Bedford Avenue between Willoughby Avenue and DeKalb Avenue.

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Wikidata items:

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In downtown Cairo, Illinois, on July 20th, 2014, outside the former "Fat Boys Bar & Grill" on the east side of Commercial Avenue, north of 8th Street, in the Cairo Historic District, 79000815 on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to satellite imagery on Google Earth, the building was demolished sometime between May 2015 and November 2016.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Alexander (county) (2000496)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

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• Commercial buildings—Illinois (sh89006915)

• Lost architecture (sh93000146)

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Is the inside comfortable?, but it's definitely neat to look at from out here. Pieces of woodland seem to "butt" against its backside, and I can see where siding was applied to a first-floor door there on the corner. People don't look like they lack for tv channels. That's a whole lotta balcony to have to safely support.

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In downtown Hundred, West Virginia, on July 15th, 2010, the "Maybert House" at the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue (West Virginia Route 69) and Wetzel Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

NA6212 Commercial buildings—United States—Pictorial works.

NA7861 Apartment houses—United States—Pictorial works.

NA3070 Balconies—Pictorial works.

F249.H94 Hundred (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.

Riverview Tower on West 25th Street, just west of downtown Cleveland, Ohio USA and in the Ohio City area. A low income, senior high rise operated by Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority. Built in 1964. 15 floors. 498 one-bedroom apartments with a window air conditioner in each unit. Two laundry facilities (thank goodness Depend® Products are disposable) • 2014

iPhone 4s. Photomatix Details Enhancer tomemapped HDR from a single JPG image, plus an AikenHDR-44 preset. Photoshop Elements.

There are red ← PARKING PARKING → explanations upon the American Legion wartime veterans' organization sign. Be careful not to scrape your truck's sideview mirrors against the eastern façade of that bldg. What's the soft-looking mitt-shaped bowl-shaped thing mounted up there: Is it a cozy for a hornets' nest.

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In downtown Cameron, West Virginia, on July 15th, 2010, the northwest corner of Main Street and Park Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

D570.A1 American Legion—Pictorial works.

NA6212 Commercial buildings—United States—Pictorial works.

TE23 Streets—United States—Pictorial works.

F249.C22 Cameron (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.

Weird doesn't mean bad. The bldg's top and bottom are funny together in a way that I enjoy to see.

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In downtown Port Byron, Illinois, on December 29th, 2011, "Dueys," a/k/a "Duey's Corner Tap" per the internet, at the northeast corner of North Main Street and Cherry Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

NA7852 Bars (Drinking establishments)—United States—Pictorial works.

GT4988 Christmas lights—Pictorial works.

NA3008 Awnings—Pictorial works.

F549.P84 Port Byron (Ill.)—Pictorial works.

GT3911.A2 Signs and signboards—United States—Pictorial works.

HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.

CS2309 Names, Personal—Pictorial works.

F549.Q33 Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)—Pictorial works.