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I know a different Mike 'n' Debbie who express their love in elegant lettering at classy sites, but this Mike 'n' Debbie do it trashy-style, in garish colors, at dirty places such as the undersides of rural bridges in the U.S. south, among stenches of roadkills.

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In Lowndes County, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, at a bridge across the Withlacoochee River on Clyattville-Nankin Road, on the grounds of the Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA).

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Lowndes (county) (2000383)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Does Georgia the country have sandy parking lots at the public boat ramps in its southern regions? Maybe it does!

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In Lowndes County, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, at the Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA), along the Withlacoochee River, off the south side of Clyattville-Nankin Road.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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A: Oh it was.

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On the boundary of Brooks County (left) and Lowndes County (right), Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the Withlacoochee River as viewed from the north side of Clyattville-Nankin Road.

The Withlacoochee River flows to the Suwannee River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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"This pretty river can get withma-coochee anytime it wants!" I wisecracked to my companions in the Creeks and Rivers Picture Collectors' Club.

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On the boundary of Lowndes County (left) and Brooks County (right), Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the Withlacoochee River as viewed from the south side of Clyattville-Nankin Road. The Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp is at the left.

The Withlacoochee River flows to the Suwannee River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Baldcypress (sh88022590)
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We ask because we have only ever seeen [sic] the Withlacoochee River in autumn, never any other time of year.

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In Lowndes County, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the Withlacoochee River as viewed from the grounds of the Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA). Brooks County, Georgia, is on the opposite riverbank.

The Withlacoochee River flows to the Suwannee River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Brooks (county) (2000305)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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This place is so pretty, why, I believe the U.S. federal government ought to seize many thousands of acres of land for a national park here: the Withlacoochee River National Park in southern Georgia, America's newest national park. Pay off the landowners and seize their land and put in a national park.

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In Lowndes County, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, cypress knees along Withlacoochee River on the grounds of the Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA). Brooks County, Georgia, is on the opposite riverbank.

The Withlacoochee River flows to the Suwannee River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Brooks (county) (2000305)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In Lowndes County, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, cypress knees along Withlacoochee River on the grounds of the Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA). Brooks County, Georgia, is on the opposite riverbank.

The Withlacoochee River flows to the Suwannee River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Business routes were a 20th century thing that linger among us now. Surely the habit of designating them and maintaining their expensive signs will die away soon, right?

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, on the south side of West Hill Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38), east of North Oak Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Ordinarily I would expect roadside muffler shop signs to be significantly taller than streetcorner walk-don't walk signals, but this day I was in ridiculous Valdosta.

A two-row letterboard is available: START USING IT AGAIN.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, at Advance Muffler Shop at the northeast corner of West Hill Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38) and North Oak Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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I treated the word "parking" as a plural noun ("parking are") and seemed to equate a parking sign with a parking lot (the "parking [is] discolored"). Between those absurd details, my carefully correct use of plural possessive, the little-used adverb "brownly," my verbification of "all-caps," and my gleeful othering of the culturally dominant Baptists ("their bibles"), I thought I was being hilarious.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, on the south side of West Central Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38), east of North Oak Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, on the west side of North Lee Street, north of East Hill Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Trees in cities (sh85137261)

My favorite things about Georgia are: 1) the numerous opportunities to specify which Georgia one is referring to; and 2) the yellow flowers that form huge piles to greet the Novembers of the years that pass.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, in a parking lot off the north side of West Central Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38), east of North Toombs Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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I was 100% certain I was in the U.S. and not any other country.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, a view to the south on South Toombs Street from the southwest corner of its intersection with West Savannah Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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Send this picture directly to the Lowndes County Historical Society. They're gonna want it later so you might as well go ahead and send it over to them now.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, a view to the west from the south side of West Savannah Avenue, west of South Patterson Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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I still remember that sofa!

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, on the east side of North Toombs Street between West Valley Street and West Central Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Lol at this town.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, a view of Central Alley toward the Lowndes County Courthouse (built 1904-1905, designed by Frank Milburn, 80001110 on the National Register of Historic Places) from the north side of East Hill Avenue (Interstate 75 Business Loop, U.S. Route 84, U.S. Route 221, and Georgia State Route 38), in the Valdosta Commercial Historic District (83000234 and 02001633 on the National Register of Historic Places).

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Milburn, Frank (American architect, 1868-1926) (500242197)

These warehouse twins' respective cutenesses ought to be driving you gaga. More and more nowadays, wall-dwelling plantlife are calling the warehouses "home."

The building's record in the GNAHRGIS database declares its architectural style to be "Spanish Colonial Revival." Okay!

That same database record also variously says the building was erected circa 1907 and circa 1900-1915, and identifies it as the "Sineath Wholesale Grocery Co.-Office of M. L. Strong." Meanwhile, the official documentation of the Valdosta Commercial Historic District says it's from circa 1900 and identifies it as the "South Ashley Street Warehouse."

Well, *I* have looked at the Library of Congress's online collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps, and *I* have determined that the building is from circa 1912: It is absent from the 1911 map, and is first depicted on the 1912 map, labeled "from plans" and identified as a warehouse for the National Packing Company. It is shown on the 1921 map as the United Grocery Company, a wholesale grocer. Thank me for my research $$$.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the "South Ashley Street Warehouse," a/k/a the Sineath Wholesale Grocery Co. (a "contributing property" in the Valdosta Commercial Historic District, 83000234 and 02001633 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the east side of South Ashley Street, south of East Savannah Avenue.

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In what ways has this treatment— rampant brick infills of windows, of this and many other buildings— affected local residents' understandings of how buildings, generally, are supposed to look? OUR RESEARCH WILL REVEAL.

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, a telephone exchange owned by BellSouth Telecommunications doing business as AT&T Georgia (originally built circa 1952 by Southern Bell, according to the GNAHRGIS database) at the northwest corner of West Valley Street and North Toombs Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Lowndes (county) (2000383)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Telephone stations (sh85133431)

BUILDINGS ARE MEMORIES of the years they were erected: 1979, in this case.

Lowndes County, Georgia, is named in white supremacist reverence of William Jones Lowndes, a rice plantation slave-trafficker from South Carolina, who had no connection to the local area. The county should be renamed in honor of someone or something decent!

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In downtown Valdosta, Georgia, on November 21st, 2021, the Lowndes County Governmental Building at the northwest corner of West Valley Street and North Patterson Street (U.S. Route 41 Business Loop and Georgia State Route 7 Business Loop).

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Public buildings—Georgia (sh97006915)

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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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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