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For some reason I never before noticed how lovely the doors on the old Esquire Theater (now converted to an Imax theater) are.
My entertainment this afternoon was to stroll along Worthing Pier taking photos from the point of view of a visiting fish eager for early-evening amusement.
The buildings are rounded, but not quite to this extent ...
This style is often referred to as Streamline Moderne, but it's really a subcategory of Art Deco--every New Yorker's favorite period, thanks to the breathtaking Chrysler Building. Art Moderne can be summarized in two words: sleek and nautical. Designers still felt that they could be artistic and use excess materials--a very pre-WWII mentality. These lights are on a portion of the park area between the Hudson River and Westside Highway, probably around 28th Street.
Facts about the building:
• The J.W. Knapp Co., founded in 1896, built its department store at South Washington Street and Washtenaw Street between 1937 and 1938 and enlarged it in 1949. The five-story, rectangular structure, an example of Art-Moderne style, features a rounded front corner. Its yellow and blue facade is an enameled metal finish.
• Knapp's was bought by L.S. Good & Co. of Wheeling, W.Va., in 1970.
• The store was caught up in the financial difficulties of the parent firm and closed at the end of the day on Saturday, Oct. 13, 1980.
• It was converted to office space for state workers, who occupied it until November 2002.
• The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Source: State Historic Preservation Office and Lansing State Journal
Taken from
www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060218/NEWS03/60...
National Register of Historic Places No. 79000667
US Registered Historic District
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The Miami Beach Architectural District (also known as Old Miami Beach Historic District, and the more popular term, Miami Beach Art Deco District) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on May 14, 1979) located in Miami Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Miami Beach Boulevard, Alton Road and Collins Canal. It contains 960 historic buildings.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach_Architectural_District
I captured 3 of the 4 art deco lettering signs of the Shelborne in this one photo and the 4th in the next one!
The Midland Hotel, Morecambe, UK.
Designed in Streamline Moderne style by architect Oliver Hill, with sculptures by Eric Gill, the hotel was built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway and opened in 1933. It finally closed in 1998 and lay derelict until it was restored in 2006-2008 and reopened as a hotel again.
The bedroom on a Superliner consists of bunk beds, which can be folded up into a comfortable couch during the day. The bedroom also has a sink and a shower-equipped private toilet.
Amtrak Exhibit Train Store No. 85999. This was built for Amtrak by the Budd Company in 1976 as Amclub number 20130. This car featured a “split club” configuration of 18 club seats at one end and 23 coach seats on the other. In 2000, the car was converted to Capstone Café car 85004 for use on the newly branded Acela Regional service. It was stored in 2005 due to an excess of food service cars of this type in the fleet.
The Lake Street facade of the Avalon Theatre in south Minneapolis features a great moderne window surrounded by smooth Kasota limestone.
An Art Deco gem. Still functioning exactly as intended when built in 1936 unlike the Beehive and Croydon airports. A connection with the glamorous era of travel before the war. A touch of exotic Miami on the south coast. You can even park right infront of the building. The purple colour has been artificially added.
A cool (snow cone selling :>) business in the middle of a parking lot with mostly drive up service in a modern (but old?) building -- Who knows more about this?
As you can see from today's upload of 5 photos of the Greystone Hotel on Collins Ave. in South Beach, Miami, I had some fun with shapes and colors and brought out some of the finer deco details by so doing :>)
1941, Harold G. Stoner for the Stoneson Brothers real estate development group
see www.examiner.com/x-26565-SF-Architecture-Examiner~y2009m1...
Harold G. Stoner: www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner
1941, Harold G. Stoner for the Stoneson Brothers real estate development group
see www.examiner.com/x-26565-SF-Architecture-Examiner~y2009m1...
Harold G. Stoner: www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner
A sign outside this bldg. says it is the Juvenile Court Center. It looked to me like a large cruise ship, so it must be Streamline Modern, but I have nothing to base that on than theory.
So decorative yet the discarded can brings you back to the reality of the many homeless sleeping on Miami Beach.
The rain was pretty much clearing - good for me since my timeframe for lots of photography was 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. before heading in the rental car to drive 8 hours to the north of FL to visit my Mom for 4 days.
I knew about these remaining art deco streamline moderne bus shelters from the 1930's because I stumbled upon them near the Royal Pavilion last visit to Brighton in 2007. They were in better shape 6 years ago, maybe they just need some love and a new coat of paint. The one across the street that houses a public toilet soon to be opened is in better condition but is it as old? Here's the photo from 6 years ago to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/518057116
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 138, designed around existing buildings in 1936 by Robert V. Derrah.
The Savannah Theatre is located on the oldest-operating theater site in the United States, with a legitimate theater first opening on the corner back in 1818. The modern Savannah opened 1948 and played regular fare until 1981, when it was sold to a theater group. It appears to be used as a live venue today, but I don't know if any movies are still screened here every now and then. Regardless, the Savannah exists as a fine example of Art Moderne architecture.
Bull Street at McDonough, Savannah.
Shot through a moving bus window caught me almost unawares:>) This building used to be in Ovingdean but now Ovingdean is part of Brighton - anyway, it was a complete happy surprise to me! "Blind Veterans UK opened its flagship training, convalescent, care and holiday centre in Ovingdean, Brighton in 1938. The Brighton centre was one of the very first buildings in Britain purpose-built for those with a disability and every aspect of its construction was specially designed for blind and partially sighted visitors and residents. Shortly after its opening, the Architect and Building News praised the centre’s "magnificent views over the Downs and out to sea", as well as the thought that had gone into making the building ideal for the blind. The centre's residents included World War I veteran Henry Allingham, born 1896, who was briefly the oldest man in the world until his death in 2009." Wikipedia
Classic Sea-View room #118 at the refurbished Midland Hotel, Morecambe.
Designed in Streamline Moderne style by architect Oliver Hill, with sculptures by Eric Gill, the hotel was built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway and opened in 1933. It finally closed in 1998 and lay derelict until it was restored in 2006-2008 and reopened as a hotel again.
Concrete, concrete and more concrete. It wasn't meant to be like that at all, just wooden joists and plasterboard. The excavator was really earning its keep on this job.
Original DSC_6620_2
Train No. 49 (Lake Shore Limited) (New York, NY – Chicago, IL) is stopped at Toledo for passengers and a new engineer.
I photographed until after dark again but some of my dusky photos aren't worth sharing as the wind was almost tropical storm force. This one will give us a little closure for now -
The changing rooms and ticket stall at the Astoria Park Pool complex still the original lettering, glass block, design from the 1936 WPA build :>))