The Flickr Louisvillejeffersoncounty Image Generatr

The blue glass building is from 1998. Hostas are very nineties so they are historically appropriate to the architecture.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, outside the John L. Huber Building, the headquarters of the Louisville Water Company, erected 1998, at the northwest corner of South 3rd Street and West Chestnut Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Jefferson (county) (1002516)
• Louisville (7013915)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• beds (site elements) (300239937)
• blue (color) (300129361)
• colored glass (300380332)
• windows (300002944)

Wikidata items:
• 1990s architecture (Q6463205)
• Buildings and structures completed in 1998 (Q8318795)
• Downtown Louisville (Q3038338)
• Hosta (Q623347)
• Louisville Water Company (Q6689549)
• March 1 (Q2393)
• March 2014 (Q7131137)
• ornamental plant (Q199182)

Be cool and classy. Don't let on you're eager.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, at the northeast corner of South 1st Street (U.S. Route 60) and East Market Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Jefferson (county) (1002516)
• Louisville (7013915)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• fast food restaurants (300005191)
• logos (300028715)

Wikidata items:
• Downtown Louisville (Q3038338)
• March 1 (Q2393)
• March 2014 (Q7131137)
• shrimp (Q7504001)
• U.S. Route 60 (Q409952)
• White Castle (Q1244034)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Advertising—Food (sh85001125)
• Chain restaurants (sh86001038)
• Food containers (sh85050271)
• Fried food (sh85050243)

"It reminds me of the Mississippi River kind of," I could hear the guy on the left saying.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, the Ohio River and the Louisville Riverwalk as viewed from the 2nd Street Bridge (the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, U.S. Route 31).

There is the Ohio Falls Bridge, completed in 1868.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Jefferson (county) (1002516)
• Louisville (7013915)
• Ohio River (7014265)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• overlooks (300008186)
• railroad bridges (300007893)
• riverfronts (300008343)
• rivers (300008707)
• truss bridges (300007870)
• turbidity (300375724)

Wikidata items:
• 1870s in transport (Q8116472)
• Bridges completed in 1870 (Q8311534)
• Downtown Louisville (Q3038338)
• Fourteenth Street Bridge (Q5475935)
• George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge (Q12058467)
• March 1 (Q2393)
• March 2014 (Q7131137)
• overcast (Q1055865)
• U.S. Route 31 (Q409352)

After I finished taking pictures I removed the cushioned sheaths and ran off with them. I've got them here in my apartment as I write this.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, on the west side of South 3rd Street, south of West Main Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Jefferson (county) (1002516)
• Louisville (7013915)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• bollards (300001993)
• driveways (300008280)
• gates (300002916)
• parking garages (300007807)
• sheaths (cases) (300198733)
• yellow (color) (300127794)

Wikidata items:
• Downtown Louisville (Q3038338)
• Federal Signal Corporation (Q1400073)
• March 1 (Q2393)
• March 2014 (Q7131137)

I bounded energetically up them and I didn't need a handrail.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, in an alley off the west side of South 3rd Street, south of West Chestnut Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Louisville (7013915)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• alleys (streets) (300008248)
• downspouts (300052560)
• graffiti (300015613)
• stairs (300003228)

Wikidata items:
• Downtown Louisville (Q3038338)
• March 1 (Q2393)
• March 2014 (Q7131137)
• roof drainage (Q41902561)

In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, Interstate 64 and the Ohio River as viewed from the east side of the 2nd Street Bridge (George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, U.S. Route 31).

There are the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge on Interstate 65 (completed 1963) and the Big Four Bridge (completed 1929).

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
F516 Ohio River—Pictorial works.
HE356.I564 Interstate 64—Pictorial works.
TE23 Express highways—United States—Pictorial works.
HE355.3.I58 Interstate Highway System—Pictorial works.
NA9053.W38 Waterfronts—United States—Pictorial works.
QC921.3 Cloudiness—Pictorial works.
HE356.U531 United States Highway 31—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

"That's a nice building back there, designed by a thoughtful architect commissioned by an admirable corporation," I said.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, on the west side of South 4th Street, south of Guthrie Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TA448 Pipe, Plastic—Pictorial works.
TS198.6.P3 Pallets (Shipping, storage, etc.)—Pictorial works.
HE336.R63 Road work zones—Pictorial works.
TE220 Streets—Maintenance and repair—Equipment and supplies—Pictorial works.
NA6212 Commercial buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

Now the childlike delight that the architect had hoped we would feel upon seeing the repetitive pattern of his or her Surface Creation is getting ruined by the hostility of this effort to control our movements.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, outside the Spalding University Library on the west side of South 3rd Street (Kentucky Route 1020), north of West Breckinridge Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA3503 Decoration and ornament, Architectural—United States.
NA4125 Concrete construction—United States—Pictorial works.
NK1570 Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
N8217.C297 Circle in art.
NA2760 Geometry in architecture—United States—Pictorial works.
NA4125 Concrete walls—Pictorial works.
NA2940 Exterior walls—Pictorial works.
LD5171.S22 Spalding University—Pictorial works.
KF1272 Trespass—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

Do utilities workers recognize a coded meaning in the three colors of the guywires' plastic covers?

Nightly the happy owner of the parcel of land on yon side of the fence drifts smilingly to sleep with his head full of imagery of people being grievously injured by his skin-shredding razorwire installation. "Ah, these trespassing wretches, their bodies bleeding on the ground, ah, I love it," he sighs. "And plastic privacy slats in the chainlink."

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, on the north side of West Main Street (U.S. Route 31W) between North 10th Street and North 9th Street, beneath the overpasses of the 9th Street/Roy Wilkins Avenue exit from Interstate 64.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TA777 Guy anchors—Pictorial works.
TK3242 Electric lines—Poles and towers—Safety measures—Pictorial works.
TG425 Elevated highways—United States—Pictorial works.
TE280 Sidewalks—United States—Pictorial works.
TH9732 Wire fencing—Pictorial works.
HD255 Real property—Security measures—United States—Pictorial works.
TH9720 Burglary protection—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

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NASA thesaurus term:
• guy wires

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• chain link fences
• slats (object genres)

This unites our understandings of the notions of bald eagles in flight, of cabbages, of bushel measurements, of Florida, of Lake Okeechobee, of freshness, of garbage.

"Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town" is one of my favorite Bob Dylan lyrics.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, at the northeast corner of West Market Street and South 7th Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TS198.B6 Boxes—Pictorial works.
TS198.3.P3 Corrugated paperboard—Pictorial works.
TD788 Refuse and refuse disposal—United States—Pictorial works.
SB331 Cabbage—Pictorial works.
HD9235.C3 Cabbage industry—Pictorial works.
SB129 Farm produce—Storage—Pictorial works.
HE199.5.F3 Farm produce—Transportation—Pictorial works.
NC1002.L63 Logos (Symbols)—Pictorial works.
N8217.E25 Bald eagle in art.
N8222.M375 Maps in art.
HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus term:
• cardboard

Here was a wonderful old-fashioned public library bookdrop, in the style so many of us remember from our childhoods. I remember when the interiors of nearly every urban public library in the U.S. were covered with strips of shiny wood. These historic interiors are disappearing.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, inside the north building (erected 1969) of the main branch of the Louisville Free Public Library, on the north side of York Street between South 4th Street and South 3rd Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
Z733.L895 Louisville Free Public Library—Pictorial works.
Z682.2.U6 Public libraries—United States—Pictorial works.
Z684 Book drops—Pictorial works.
NK2115.5.W66 Wood in interior decoration—Pictorial works.
TA666.5.P83 Paneling—Pictorial works.
E169.12 Nineteen sixties—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

"WHAT GETS SOLD IN THAT," I bellowed to the empty street as I pointed at the shop.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, a storefront on the west side of South 4th Street, south of Guthrie Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA6225 Storefronts—United States—Pictorial works.
GT3911.A2 Shop signs—United States—Pictorial works.
HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.
HF5429.27 Stores, Retail—Security measures—Pictorial works.
TH9720 Burglary protection—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

Well this'll wow the people on the street won't it!, haha.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 7th, 2014, at the northeast corner of East Main Street (U.S. Routes 31E and 60) and North Hancock Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
QK773 Climbing plants—Pictorial works.
TA455.G73 Gravel—Pictorial works.
QK46 Dead trees—Pictorial works.
TH2243 Brick walls—Pictorial works.
TA432 Bricks—Painting—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus term:
• loading docks

These ramps are more appealing than other kinds of downspouts. All of the waters from the rooftop get accumulated into a waterfall for the flowers to drink up.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 1st, 2014, outside the "Love Boutique" at the southeast corner of South 2nd Street (U.S. Route 31E) and West Jefferson Street (U.S. Route 60).

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TH2493 Roof drainage—Pictorial works.
SB418.4 Plant containers—Pictorial works.
NA4125 Concrete construction—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

This was painted by the California artist Henry Lipkis in 2013, on the Joan E. Thomas, M.D. Campus of The Center for Women and Families.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, on the east side of South 2nd Street (Kentucky Route 1020), between West Breckinridge Street and West Kentucky Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
ND2605 Mural painting and decoration, American.
N8217.H3 Hand in art.
N7666.D68 Doves in art.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

I doubt that there are people who have ever explicitly disliked this, but if there are then those people are on the wrong side of history, because this is where things are headed.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 7th, 2014, on the east side of South Clay Street, north of East Jefferson Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
ND2605 Mural painting and decoration, American.
TK301 Electric meters—Pictorial works.
TH6870 Gas-meters—Pictorial works.
GB2615 Snow—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• bollards
• corners (object portions)

This was my favorite part of the parking lot. What is that broken candlestick-looking thing at the bottom.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 7th, 2014, at the northwest corner of East Jefferson Street and South Hancock Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TL175 Parking lots—United States—Pictorial works.
TE203 Road markings—United States—Pictorial works.
TE270 Pavements, Asphalt concrete—Pictorial works.
NK1570 Stripes.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

Attractive snow in downtown Louisville, next to a building of Centerfold Nude Girls [doing a] Show-n-Tell All Girl Revue.

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on March 6th, 2014, off the northeast corner of South 5th Street and West Chestnut Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
GB2615 Snow—United States—Pictorial works.
TD868 Snow removal—Pictorial works.
PN1949.S7 Striptease—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6215 Central business districts—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus term:
• strip clubs

"What I want is that anytime anybody sees a yellow dumpster in Louisville, he or she will know it's an ANYTIME dumpster without even having to look for the sign."

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In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in March 6th, 2014, on the north side of West Market Street, between South 6th Street and South 7th Street. There is the "6th & Main Garage" operated by the Louisville Parking Authority (PARC), erected in 1987.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TD788 Refuse and refuse disposal—United States—Pictorial works.
HD9975.U5 Refuse disposal industry—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6370.P37 Parking garages—United States—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.

I could feel the crosscurrents of the South and Midwest clashing here and making a mess. Recent weather had wetted the dirt. The historic porch at the left says ALEX'S FEED AND SEED.

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In Louisville, Kentucky, on March 7th, 2014, on the north side of Story Avenue (U.S. Routes 42 and 60) between East Main Street and North Johnson Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA6212 Roadside architecture—United States—Pictorial works.
TE279.3 Driveways—Pictorial works.
TS198.6.P3 Pallets (Shipping, storage, etc.)—Pictorial works.
F459.L86B88 Butchertown (Louisville, Ky.)—Pictorial works.
F459.L843 Louisville (Ky.)—Pictorial works.