The Flickr Owossomichigan Image Generatr

The white and black paints (or white paint and black Sharpie) have been superbly effective at legibilizing [sic] the numerals.

I'm a big fan of the handrail up the stairs.

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In Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, was a datestone at a former church at 318 E Oliver St, at the southwest corner of East Oliver Street and North Hickory Street.

A dilapidated sign on the building reads "Owosso Church of God." The building is identified as a Church of Christ on this 1915 fire insurance map. From circa the 1990s until circa 2015, it was the site of the Owosso Movie Museum.

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U.A.C. = Unaltered Augsburg Confession, by which the Kirche's clergy and congregants express their rejection of revisions made in the 1540s to the language of Augsburg Confession (1530), the written creed of the Lutheran Church.

Maybe you already knew that but it was new to me. Now that I know, I worry I won't remember.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, was a datestone at Salem Lutheran Church at the southeast corner of North Washington Street and East Williams Street, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The ones with internet access needn't wonder any more: Digital pictures of the Shiawassee River are readily available online. For instance!

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, the Shiawassee River as viewed from the south side of a bridge on West Main Street (Highway M-21).

The Shiawassee River converges with the Tittabawassee River to form the Saginaw River, which flows to Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron.

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A Huron & Eastern GP40-2LW sits on display during the rail festival in Owosso, Michigan, in July 2009. The unit was built for Canadian National. (Scanned from a slide)

"Urban plantlife on a summer morning," I whispered in rapt wonder as I took pictures.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, off the east side of South Park Street between East Main Street and East Comstock Street.

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A parking lot traffic island hosts an ailing tree with sparse foliage, surrounded by overgrown landscaping plants.

"Nobody alive can remember what year the lampposts that line the streets of downtown were installed, nor by what process their design was selected," I dramatically asserted. Probably falsely!, but not by much.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, on the east side of South Park Street, south of East Main Street.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, 122 N Washington St (the Knill Block or Burhans Block, built in 1868, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of North Washington Street and East Exchange Street.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, on the west side of North Ball Street, north of West Main Street.

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Actually it's "RadioShack" but I have always rejected that spelling. "I'm here to buy some microphones," I used to announce as I walked in the door.

This picture is from 2020, and the store closed in 2022.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, on the north side of West Main Street, east of North Water Street, at the backside of 216 W Main St.

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That's a bunch of beige-'n'-tan!

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, at a 1969 expansion of 200 E Main St (built 1955-1956 as the Owosso Federal Savings and Loan; expanded in 1969; later Charter One Bank; a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southeast corner of East Main Street (Highway M-21) and South Park Street.

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It's nice to see people still like one another!

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on June 28th, 2020, on the south side of West Exchange Street between North Ball Street and North Washington Street.

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Unprotected and vulnerable, past parking lot after parking lot, in dusty spring sunlight.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, the west side of North Park Street as viewed to the north from its intersection with East Mason Street.

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In no city or town have I ever once felt joyous about these sidewalk treatments.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, on the east side of North Water Street, south of West Exchange Street.

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It is the Schlieder Building, according to the official documentation of the Owosso Downtown Historic District, which goes on to explain that the left half was built in 1899 and the right half was built circa 1914.

I would like the building more if it had all been built at the same time, so I could point at it and announce one single year without a bunch of fussy explanation.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, the Fortune House Restaurant on the north side of West Main Street (Highway M-21), east of North Water Street. The building is a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Flagg Coal Company No. 75 was among the steam locomotives on display and in steam at the 2009 steam festival in Owosso, Michigan. (Scanned from a slide)

Flagg Coal Company No. 75 was among the steam locomotives on display and in steam at the 2009 steam festival in Owosso, Michigan. (Scanned from a slide)

Steam billows as Viscose Company No. 6 puts on a show during a steam festival in Owosso, Michigan, in July 2009. (Scanned from a slide and converted to black and white)

These shadows of tree branches are shadows of spectacular fireworks, cast upon a wall of brown brick veneer and light brown sheet metal.

From its appearance, you probably won't be surprised to learn that the building was built in 1982.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, at the Owosso Senior Center (built in 1982 according to municipal records at bsaonline.com; owned by the Shiawassee Council on Aging) at the northeast corner of North Washington Street and East Mason Street.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, a view of the west elevation of the north end of the "Grow Block" at the northeast corner of North Ball Street and West Exchange Street, a "contributing property" in the Owosso Downtown Historic District, 14000126 on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the historic district's documentation, the first floor of this part of the building was built between 1894 and 1900, as an extension of the original building, which was built in 1890. The second floor of the extension was added between 1900 and 1908. The building was occupied by a Montgomery Ward store from approximately 1930 to 1980.

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In downtown Owosso, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, in an alley between East Exchange Street and East Main Street, east of North Park Street.

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