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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.
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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 :>))
The changing rooms and ticket stall at the Astoria Park Pool complex still the original lettering, glass block, design from the 1936 WPA build :>))
Do you know I love streamline moderne art deco design? So imagine my joy at finding this architectural gem on our travels from Corona to JFK:>) It does have some negative management, staff experiences associated with it :>(
"Located in the Forest Hills section of Queens. The RKO Midway Theatre (named for the famous Battle of Midway) was opened on September 24, 1942.... (It) was designed by Thomas W. Lamb Associates, which included S. Charles Lee. Following a year of construction (1997), the Midway Theatre reopened as the UA Midway 9 and is now one of Queens' best performing movie theaters.
Sadly, the theater’s original interior appearance was mostly lost during the conversion, but its exterior remains a familiar Queens Boulevard landmark."
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
Seafront view from the Midland Hotel, Morecambe, UK, across Morecambe Bay to the peaks of the Lake District.
Entrance Lobby of the Midland Hotel, Morecambe, UK, with reproduction rug originally designed by Marion Dorn.
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.
A 1930 Deco building designed by Charles Holden.
The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s.
This sculpture was designed by Eric Aumonier, and points south to Archway