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Christy looks great in upwardly diagonal cursive, blue-on-white.

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In downtown Archbold, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was a building at H&K Chevrolet, formerly Christy Chevrolet-Buick, before that Christy Motor Sales, built in 1951, at the southeast corner of North Defiance Street (Ohio state routes 2 and 66) and East Williams Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
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See a wire clothes hanger with pink plastic coating, bent somewhat-out-of-shape and littered.

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, at the former Kaw Valley Auto, a/k/a Kaw Valley Motors, built 1967, later Buy Right Auto and Wilson Truck Sales Inc., at the northwest corner of SE 6th Street and SE Branner Street.

Business names are according to past Google Streetview imagery, also per which: The color scheme is from sometime between May 2013 and April 2016.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Color in architecture (sh85028595)
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We know this Ford Probe is from model years 1993-1997 because the gas tank cover is squarish, as compared to 1989-1992 models, which had circular gas tank covers.

Per Google Streetview, the Probe was installed sometime between August 2007 and September 2008, replacing a red convertible. It was not originally burned out and formerly had an orange light mounted on the roof. The decals were installed sometime between September 2008 and September 2012, and it was burned sometime between June 2019 and December 2021. Maybe during the pandemic!

Also per Google Streetview, the building's color scheme is from sometime between May 2013 and April 2016. Per the local government's real esate search website, the building is from 1967.

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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, at the former Kaw Valley Auto, a/k/a Kaw Valley Motors, later Buy Right Auto and Wilson Truck Sales Inc., at the northwest corner of SE 6th Street and SE Branner Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Shawnee (county) (2000748)
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
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Wikidata items:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Color in architecture (sh85028595)
• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)
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If the streamers were removed and the building were relocated to a rural site, I would like to have it for my house.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on October 31st, 2018, the former "New Wheels" used car lot at the northeast corner of South Cedar Street (Interstate 96 Business Loop) and Armstrong Road. The building is said to have been erected in 1945.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Ingham (county) (1002502)
• Lansing (2052433)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• commercial buildings (300005147)
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