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A photo of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock image Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

A photo of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock image Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

An image of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock photo Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

An image of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock photo Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

An image of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock photo Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

A photo of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock image Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

An image of the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan courthouse was built in 1962 and was originally designed by Joseph L. Donofro And Associates. The exterior of the Houston County Courthouse was substantially redesigned between 2001 and 2003, with Wade Parrish And Associates leading the redesign. This stock photo Copyright Capitolshots Photography, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

I have never seen the billboards' fronts and I like the lights. I'm just down here with the only.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, a billboard on the east side of South Oates Street (U.S. Route 231 Business Loop, U.S. Route 431 Business Loop, and Alabama Route 53), north of West Crawford Street.

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This picture — my picture, the one you're looking at — is the only thing I can think of that would justify the effort involved in putting all these ribbons in this tree. Nobody else's happiness at seeing the ribbons is as large as my happiness at seeing my picture of the ribbons.

Which is not to say that my happiness is particularly large. It's just larger than.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, at the northeast corner of North Foster Street and East Troy Street.

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Checklist: wooden doors with windows, which the famous National Park Service dates to circa 1940; additional sliding barn-style door; blue paint; historic stickers from Visa-MasterCard times; 2 concrete bollards; brix from pre-1912 per NPS; January winter sun.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, outside the former T.R. Frith Seed & Hdwe. at the northeast corner of East Crawford Street and South Foster Street. The building is a "contributing resource" to the Main Street Commercial District, 83002984 on the National Register of Historic Places. Per its signage, it was associated with "Trustworthy Hardware," a brand of the United Hardware Distributing Company.

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The color choice was avant garde imo, no matter what year the paint is from.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, the Young Building, a five-story building erected in 1914, at the southeast corner of East Main Street (U.S. Route 84 and Alabama State Route 52) and South St. Andrews Street, in the Main Street Commercial District, 83002984 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Eating and digesting a wire fence.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, off the west side of South St. Andrews Street between East Main Street and East Crawford Street.

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This being the U.S., it figures that a portrayal of Hernando de Soto would neglect to depict the murderous cruelty for which he is best known. "The conquistadors were white supremacists too," say the white Alabamans of popular stereotype, with satisfied smiles.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, the 1993 mural DeSoto's Journey Through the Wiregrass Region, a/k/a Spanish and Indian Mural, by Art Rosenbaum, in Poplar Head Park at the northwest corner of East Main Street (U.S. Route 84 and Alabama Route 52) and Museum Avenue.

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Sentimental bronze statues of idealized elderly on parkbenches are fairly common in small U.S. cities.

This one is conceptually a mess: It is assumed (perhaps correctly, given its location in Alabama) that viewers' sentimentality toward the marketing trope of a gentle and comfortable elderly couple will overwhelm any awareness of the incongruousness of the statue's setting, among a dozen smelly trash bins outside a loading dock.

Does grandma bring her pet lapcat with her to the loading dock? Or do they weirdly have a parkbench in the unseen living room implied by the housecat's presence? Or is the cat a tick-infested feral stray that suddenly decided to curl up on a stranger's lap? Is that a Vogue magazine granddad is reading?

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, off the west side of Museum Avenue, south of North Cherry Street, outside the Dothan Civic Center.

The plaque reads:
William and La Doris Glover
In honor of your
Dedication to Dothan's Senior Citizens
and
SAMC Board of Directors
2010
Given by Larry and Sue Register

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'71 was a big year for brown buildings in the U.S., almost as big as '72, '73, '74, and '75. Is it correct to speak of the protruding attachments as awnings?

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, a 1971 building at the northwest corner of North Foster Street and East Burdeshaw Street.

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Includes a pair of crapemyrtles subject to the severe pruning with which we associate the landscaping tastes of white Republicans in the southern U.S.

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In Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, off Ross Clark Circle (U.S. Route 231 and Alabama Route 210) south of Montgomery Highway, on the grounds of a "Country Inn & Suites By Carlson" hotel.

Ross Clark Circle was named by Alabama Governor Jim Folsom in honor of his otherwise-undistinguished brother-in-law.

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After I finish taking pictures I'm gonna go in and look for snakes.

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In Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, Baccharis halimifolia off Ross Clark Circle (U.S. Route 431 and Alabama Route 210), opposite Prevatt Road, at the shopping center "Cottonwood."

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I had my kids with me for this and I reassured them that the palm would rise up green in the spring.

"It'll rise up green. It looks like cheerleaders' pompoms doesn't it," I said. "Isn't this open area nice?, we can see far." The older one said yes and the younger one was quiet which is not unusual.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, on the west side of Holman Street, north of East Crawford Street.

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This being the U.S. — and Alabama! — I am surprised tbh-tbqh that anybody involved in putting this up would've have the idea to ornamentally slope the fencetop, and the wherewithal to implement the idea.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, in an alley between North Foster Street and North St. Andrews Street, south of East Troy Street, outside the Dothan Utilities bill payment office.

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SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA COMMERICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY 1960s in early January sunshine.

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In downtown Dothan, Alabama, on January 2nd, 2018, the Choice Inn on the west side of North St. Andrews Street, south of East Burdeshaw Street.

My interpretation of the building's county property report is that this part of the building is an addition from 1962, and that the brick corner at the far left is part of the original 1959 building.

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