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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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I always have to call it "Laws Furniture No Apostrophe" to remind myself there is no apostrophe.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, Laws Furniture at the southeast corner of West Central Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38) and North Toombs Street.

The building is a "contributing property" in the Valdosta Commercial Historic District, 83000234 and 02001633 on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the building's record in the GNAHRGIS database, it was built circa 1914, and the façade is from circa 1960. According to the historic district's official documentation, the building was a car dealership in the 1930s.

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Pictures of familiar streetscapes are online memorabilia!

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In downtown Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, 7th Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18) as viewed from the northwest corner of its intersection with 15th Street.

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Watch me turn left! The box will not slide off.

I'll be passing beneath a skyway/skywalk/skybridge from 1986, connecting "Bank of America Plaza" to its parking garage.

We all know plazas and office towers are not the same thing, but "Bank of America Plaza" is an office tower. So stupid!

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In downtown Tampa, Florida, on November 23rd, 2021, the intersection of North Ashley Drive and East Jackson Street, outside Bank of America Plaza (built 1986, originally known as Barnett Plaza).

Chrysler Pacifica minivans were first produced in model year 2017.

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I'm running around frantically trying to look at the few that remain before they all get paved over with concrete and asphalt.

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In downtown Athens, Ohio, on July 3rd, 2021, Mill Street as viewed from the southwest corner of its intersection with North College Street.

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Gray with beige trim and brown stairs and black awnings!!

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In Rapid City, South Dakota, on September 7th, 2019, the "Saje Salon" (in a house built in 1942) on the west side of Mount Rushmore Road (U.S. Route 16), between St. Cloud Street and Franklin Street.

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Here one is, to inspire you. Any musical genre is fine but I prefer high-NRG dance songs with wry lyrics.

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In La Vale, Maryland, on June 26th, 2019, a view from the grounds of a Motel 6 on the east side of Winchester Road Southwest (Maryland Route 53).

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I come down here and watch these during windstorms.

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In East Lansing, Michigan, on April 11th, 2020, at the intersection of Albert Street and Collingwood Drive.

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This one on S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd gives especial prominence to an advertisement for some kind of special sale, one of the ten Adavance Auto Parts stores in the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan area, and a swarm of powerlines.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on May 5th, 2019, a view from the northeast corner of South Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard (Michigan Highway M-99) and West Cavanaugh Road.

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Location:
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada

Photo by Dylan Passmore
Taken: March 8, 2020

It was unusual to be up here above the horizontally-oriented traffic lights.

See how the traffic signals' support poles approximately parallel the crosswalk stripes, in a "delight of intersection townscape."

Anything named in honor of the white supremacist John Calhoun must be renamed immediately.

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In downtown Tallahassee, Florida, on March 4th, 2019, a view from a parking garage at the southwest corner of East College Avenue and South Calhoun Street.

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Yon forested mountain the Allegheny Front both improves and weirdens the area.

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In Keyser, West Virginia, on June 29th, 2019, Armstrong Street (West Virginia Route 46) as viewed from the west side of a bridge on U.S. Route 220.

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The lights of New York City at night.

Ah!, l'Ontario, c'est nous tous. Je l'appelle "Lontario, le gouvernement de la lumière".

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In downtown Toronto on September 24th, 2016, 880 Bay Street at the northwest corner of Bay Street and Grosvenor Street.

The building was erected in 1947, occupied by provincial government offices from 1963 to 2013, fifty wonderful years, and demolished in 2016-2017 at the age of seventy. The demolition was documented in a time-lapse video with musical accompaniment.

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During MOSTLY CLOUDINESS.

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In Tucson, Arizona, on October 10th, 2015, a view from the northeast corner of North Oracle Road and West Adams Street.

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The shrubbery is beautiful and reminds visitors of wads of shag carpeting. The left-turn/right-turn pavement arrows in Albany are good.

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In downtown Albany, New York, on August 28th, 2016, a view toward Eagle Street and the South Mall Arterial from the east side of Empire State Plaza.

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Location:
Seattle, Washington
U.S.

Photo by Dylan Passmore
Taken: September 25, 2016

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