The Flickr 1941Building Image Generatr

Very midwestern! I see this in all the old midwestern towns.

The buildings are from 1925 (left) and 1941 (right), according to City of Wayne property records at bsaonline.com.

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In downtown Wayne, Michigan, on April 7th, 2024, were 3519 S Wayne Rd and 35006 W Michigan Ave on the east side of Wayne Road, between Sims Street and Michigan Avenue.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Here was 328-330 W 25th St, built in 1941 as a warehouse for the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company. The gable roof was added in 1986 and looks wonderful. 1986 is closer to 1941 than it is to 2023, when this picture was taken.

In 2006, the building was officially recognized by the U.S. government for its historic significance as part of the federally-designated Park Place Historic District.

A garage entrance was partially filled by a metal wall and pedestrian door. A 2020 Toyota Tacoma was partially blocking our view of a half-gazebo porch. An exterior light fixture was caged to protect it from rock-throwing teens of earlier generations.

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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, at the northeast corner of DeBree Avenue and West 25th Street.

Historical details are from the official documentation of the Park Place Historic District, 06000029 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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And it has been ever since!

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In downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, on April 5th, 2023, at the former Fayetteville City Hall (funded by the Works Progress Administration; occupied since 1998 by the Fascinate-U Children's Museum; a "contributing property" in the Fayetteville Downtown Historic District, 99000779 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of Green Street and Bow Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In downtown Kansas City, Kansas, on March 29th, 2022, outside the civil engineering and surveying company BHC, in a former A&P grocery store built in 1941, later a Piggly Wiggly, later the Apple Market, on the north side of State Avenue, west of North 7th Street.

Per Goog. Streetview, the paintjob is from sometime between July 2011 and July 2015.

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Omg haha MSU students live in that. 1941 haha, with quoins and a mansard roof lol. Beige bricks and brown siding with dark red trim around the gabled dormer windows, haha students lol.

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In East Lansing, Michigan, on April 11th, 2020, a house (built in 1941, owned by "GTW Investment Properties LLC") at the northeast corner of Gunson Street and Ann Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Dwellings—Michigan (sh94006015)

SEE THAT IT YET RETAINED slight glimmers of its 1940s-ness as of July 2011, before the windows were replaced and the phony shutters were attached, sometime between then and September 2016. Yea and SEE IT FARTHER BACK IN TIME before it got the slant-roofed addition at the right, before the porch supports were replaced, sometime in the 2000s probably.

But yea the house is a student rental from 1941, owned by "Hagan Realty, Inc."

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In East Lansing, Michigan, on April 11th, 2020, on the west side of Milford Street, south of Ann Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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The corner really comes to life when you learn that it is from 1941. DOESN'T IT!!

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In Lansing, Michigan, on December 8th, 2018, on the west side of North Fairview Avenue, north of East Michigan Avenue.

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Twentieth century GMC vans get driven around on bumpy old weedgrown brick alleyways.

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In downtown Huntington, Indiana, on November 7th, 2015, in an alley connecting Washington Street and East Market Street, between Warren Street and Guilford Street. The building was erected in 1941

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Fortunately for Dwayne my vacuum cleaner and my sewing machine are both lemons, in almost constant need of repairs and replacement parts.

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In downtown Huntington, Indiana, on November 7th, 2015, Dwayne's Vac & Sew, a/k/a Dwayne's Sweeper Shop, at the southwest corner of Warren Street (U.S. Route 224 and Indiana State Road 5) and East Franklin Street. The building is said to have been erected in 1941.

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The depression had ended and people in the U.S. were out building skyscrapers again I guess.

Try not to be such a comfortable aesthete as to forget to associate the building with the distinctive political and social oppression of its time. Anyone with the means to cause a large commercial building to be erected in Georgia in the 1940s should not be presumed to be basically decent, right?

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In downtown Macon, Georgia, on January 5th, 2018, the Willie C. Hill Government Center Annex, built in 1941 as the Bankers Insurance Building and later known as the Southern Trust Building, at the southeast corner of 1st Street and Cherry Street.

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