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This one is going to be the cover of my book Cultural Landscapes of the East Branch Black River.
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In Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the west bank of the East Branch Black River as viewed from the north side of Broad Street.
The East Branch Black River flows to the Black River, which flows to Lake Erie.
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"Serve my eyes these puddings forever, as digital pictures, forever," I prayed as I took pictures.
I started to say "These waters are puddings" but was unable to finish: I slipped into a falsetto glossolalia and dropped to my knees.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the East Branch Black River as viewed from a scenic overlook on the East Falls Riverwalk in Cascade Park.
The East Branch Black River flows to the Black River, which flows to Lake Erie.
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If these thickly tan waters could manage to clear themselves, and/or if the riverbed's shales could either be sunk completely underwater or lifted above the water level entirely, it would look less weird.
Pervy local preachers get a sex thrill from baptizing people in this.
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In Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the West Branch Black River as viewed from a pedestrian bridge on the north side of 2nd Street.
The West Branch Black River flows to the Black River, which flows to Lake Erie.
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There flow the waters of butterscotch pudding, o'er their shale.
The Black River was named in honor of the notion that butterscotch puddings are commonly said to be "black" in color.
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In Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the West Branch Black River as viewed from the south side of 2nd Street.
The West Branch Black River flows to the Black River, which flows to Lake Erie.
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Trace the screen with your finger and read it aloud with me now: Brandau Jewelers Customer Parking Only.
The cursive "Customer" is by far the best part of the sign but I do like the blue and gray "JEWELERS" blob and the stripe. The white-on-white "BRANDAU" at the top and "PARKING ONLY" at the bottom are much too hard to see.
A cursory websearch reveals that Brandau Jewelers closed sometime between 2004 and 2012.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, on the west side of Chapel Street between Broad Street and 2nd Street.
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What might we infer about a town or a county, by the expansiveness of its adult probation parking lots?
I wish popular songwriters would write more songs about adult probation.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the parking lot of the Adult Probation Department of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas on the south side of Broad Street between Middle Avenue and Chapel Street.
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Very very comfortably familiar phenomena!
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, off the south side of Broad Street, west of Chapel Street.
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See the EVIDENCE OF FORMER STAIRS: A handrail!, mounted onto that wall of rusticated concrete blocks.
Google Streetview shows the ENCLOSED PORCH that used to be here, prior to PORCH REMOVAL.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, two commercial buildings on the north side of 2nd Street between Chestnut Street and West Avenue.
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"Ah, my connoisseurship of these kinds of things," I said happily as I took pictures.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, off the north side of Broad Street, west of Court Street.
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Google Maps says the name of the sign business is "Graphic Signs" but I do not know where in the hell they are getting their information at [sic]. The shop signs clearly say the name of the business is either "Signs, Vehicle Wraps & All Signs," or "Signs, Vehicle Wraps, Neon, Awning."
People come downtown to get their vehicle wraps!, that is weird.
I found an assertion that the blue façade is from circa 1960. I am willing to believe it!
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, the Robinson Building at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue.
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It is starting to peel at the top and the bottom: It is just about getting to be time to repaint this.
I feel that we ought to just go ahead and paint over the glass block window.
Reserved parking space number 17, lower left.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, off the north side of Broad Street, west of Court Street.
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The siding infill and vertical blinds of the remodeled/reduced windows are no worse-looking than the pilasters and pediment, which are no worse-looking than the white-orange-white-red-white-gray stripes of AutoZone.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, a building on the west side of Cedar Street, north of Wurst Court.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, a building on the west side of East Avenue, north of 2nd Street.
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Wow at the left I love the long shadows being cast by those stone squares at the centers of those pilasters in this sunlight today.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, an alley on the east side of Middle Avenue between 2nd Street and 3rd Street.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, on the south side of Broad Street, east of East Avenue.
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Vape City is an evape city and vapejuice city.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, a building on the west side of Cedar Street between Broad Street and Wurst Court.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, a building on the west side of West Avenue between Broad Street and 2nd Street.
Per a comparison of Google Street View and aerial imagery on the Lorain County Auditor website, the building was erected in 2017.
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This old wall has been holding up this old railbed for too long. I feel that we need to bring in a civil engineer to look at this.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, along an elevated portion of Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line, formerly the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, on the north side of Tremont Street, west of Kerstetter Way.
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This is to prevent the tracks carrying all of the freight trains and Amtrak trains between Chicago and Cleveland from collapsing in a landslide, even throughout many decades' worth of freeze-thaw cycles and conditions of extreme soil wetness.
The giant crack is shaped like a bay at the mouth of a river. Delaware Bay, for instance.
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In downtown Elyria, Ohio, on July 7th, 2018, along an elevated portion of Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line, formerly the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, on the north side of Tremont Street, west of Kerstetter Way.
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