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WHAT IS HEARTBREAKING IS: Per G. Streetview the sign used to charmingly read Displays Displays Displays in a comical mid-20c style. That is now lost!

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In Lorain, Ohio, on July 8th, 2018, on the east side of Elyria Avenue, south of East 20th Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Lorain (7015732)
• Lorain (county) (1002607)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• power lines (300008603)
• roadsides (300003889)
• rust (300213355)
• signs (declatory or advertising artifacts) (300123013)
• streetscapes (300249570)
• urban blight (300163405)
• urban landscapes (300132447)
• utility poles (300006446)
• vacant lots (300122264)
• white (color) (300129784)

Wikidata items:
• 8 July 2018 (Q45920729)
• Greater Cleveland (Q5600502)
• July 8 (Q2692)
• July 2018 (Q29110086)
• Northeast Ohio (Q7057945)
• Rust Belt (Q781973)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Pavements—Cracking (sh87003617)
• Weeds (sh85145920)

In the small towns of the U.S. people have been thinking that their traditional ways of life — which had been dependent on the "videotan" business model (combining UV tanning with VHS movie rental) — are DOOMED because of changes nobody around here asked for. "Paperback books might get us by for a few more years but what then?"

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In downtown Clinton, Iowa, on December 29th, 2011, "'No Sweat' Tanning & Paperback Book Exchange" on the south side of 4th Avenue South, west of South 3rd Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TT958 Tanning salons—United States—Pictorial works.
Z286.P35 Paperback bookstores—United States—Pictorial works.
GT3911.A2 Shop signs—United States—Pictorial works.
HD2346.U6 Small business—United States—Pictorial works.
HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.
NA4133 Metal buildings—Pictorial works.
F629.C6 Clinton (Iowa)—Pictorial works.