In the spring of '21 in West Allis, Wisc., you could buy a McChicken and a McCheeseburger for merely $2.50 for both.

(Plus 14¢ in combined state and county sales tax.)

 

Those must have been happy times. But what were they putting in those inexpensive burgers!

 

Meanwhile at a laundromat was a wall of rusticated concrete blocks in lime green paint, 60 feet long. Those must have been happy times!

 

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In West Allis, Wisconsin, on April 28th, 2021, the "Greenfield Ave. Washing Well" at the northeast corner of West Greenfield Avenue (Wisconsin Highway 59) and South 86th Street.

 

The building is from 1925. According to Google Street View, the green paint was applied sometime between 2011 and 2015, replacing white paint.

 

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