The Flickr 1950Scommercialbuilding Image Generatr

Submit this pic to your A.I. and tell it: "Design me a tripartite fireplace in the style of this three-bay service center. Show it in a living room, with three separate fires going."

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In downtown Norwalk, Ohio, on June 16th, 2024, was Ziegler Tire at the northeast corner of Whittlesey Avenue (U.S. Route 250 and Ohio State Route 13) and Ohio Street. The building is from 1955.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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The canopy recalls the architecture of strip clubs. It is thought not to be necessary to include an area code with the phone number: This is Wichita Falls and you already know what the area code is. Stars are not often gray.

The building is from 1950. According to historical roadside and satellite imagery at Google Streetview and Google Earth, the canopy structure was completed sometime between February 2018 and May 2020.

The absence of protective bollards around the support piers of the canopy is an invitation to motorists to spectacularly crash their cars into them.

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In downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, on February 14th, 2023, at A to Z Bail Bonds on the north side of 7th Street, east of Lamar Street, during a duststorm.

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The building was more attractive when Ed Ruscha visited 45 years prior, in 1974. But it was still young then.

Ed Ruscha also visited in 2007, when the building was occupied by a business called Exclusive Caregivers.

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In Los Angeles, California, on April 24th, 2019, LA Rehearsal Music Studios on the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard, east of North Serrano Avenue. The building is from 1957.

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The building's abandonment has been bumming out the local people for many years!

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In downtown Kansas City, Kansas, on March 29th, 2022, the former Winkler's Jewelry Store (1958-199) in a portion of the Barker Building, erected circa 1905 with a remodeled façade from 1958, on the south side of Minnesota Avenue, west of North 7th Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In Lansing, Michigan, on February 4th, 2022, a house (listed as a "new house" in the 1919 Lansing city directory) with storefront attachment (built 1950) at the northeast corner of East Michigan Avenue and North Foster Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In Ocala!

The holey wall is part of a carport! The building with the stylized EKG line is a fitness center. They're both from 1952!

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In Ocala, Florida, on March 6th, 2019, outside "Healthy Harts Fitness" at the southwest corner of Northeast 5th Street and Northeast 1st Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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However, I was astonished by the beauteousness of the ornamental ginkgo and the ornamental grass.

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In downtown Jackson, Michigan, on August 12th, 2018, a building (erected 1951) on the south side of West Michigan Avenue, east of North Jackson Street.

A "Huron Camera" shop occupied the building from who-knows-when until 2005, then it was something called "Image Gallery" until 2008, then it was vacant.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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For instance, here was a carpetseller in a rustbelt building from 1955, with charming pictures of flowers on its windows.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on May 5th, 2019, Carpets To Go on the west side of South Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard (Michigan Highway M-99) between Pierce Road and Reo Road.

The building was erected in 1955.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Do you like the dark bluish green of those decorative shutters, against that beige siding?

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In Lansing, Michigan, on May 5th, 2019, on the west side of South Pennsylvania Avenue, north of Barr Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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The building dates to 1952: wow!

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In Gainesville, Florida, on December 31st, 2017, outside "Sun Surgical Supply" at the northwest corner of Northwest 6th Street and Northwest 3rd Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Wow I would have guessed, "Nineteen forties," but, no, the building is from 1950. Huh!

I wish I could park my damn car here, I get so sick of looking for places to park.

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In Gainesville, Florida, on December 31st, 2017, at the northeast corner of Northwest 2nd Avenue and Northwest 6th Street.

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I think probably the building was not painted intentionally to resemble a partly cloudy daytime sky with high diffuse clouds? It just faded unevenly to that condition, right?

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In Gainesville, Florida, on December 31st, 2017, outside "Sun Surgical Supply" at the northwest corner of Northwest 6th Street and Northwest 3rd Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Per G. Streetview this was formerly the Short Stop Bar.

Per its property record the upstairs is an apartment. The building is reported to have been remodeled in 1983 so maybe the stone veneer isn't from 1953?!

As we closely admire the building we notice traces of some kind of former awnings or ornamentations above the first floor windows and doors.

I was not fooled for even an instant by that phony mansard roof.

I predict that the building will never again be occupied, not by squatters nor anybody.

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In Lansing Charter Township west of Lansing, Michigan, on December 1st, 2018, on the west side of Clare Street, south of West Michigan Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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