The Flickr Partysupplybusiness Image Generatr

Here was a vinyl banner at an absurd 2001 specimen of postmodern architecture in Montréal, with spikes of antipigeon.

This being Montréal and me being an anglophone a-hole/d-bag tourist, I was surprised that the banner had not been mandated to read "MDR Centre des fêtes."

And yes I was laughing loudly but inside I was panicking because I was physically unable to stop laughing. Has that ever happened to you?

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In Montréal on May 31st, 2018, outside the "Forum de Montréal," formerly known as the "Pepsi Forum," at the northwest corner (locally the "northeast" corner) of Avenue Atwater and Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest.

The Forum de Montréal was formerly the Montréal Canadiens' hockey arena, closed in 1996, remodeled and reopened as the Pepsi Forum in May 2001.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Montréal (7013051)
• Montréal, Île de (1008205)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• architectural ornament (300378995)
• balloons (toys) (300264568)
• banners (300195679)
• capital letters (300055061)
• columns (300001571)
• doors (300002803)
• doorways (300002767)
• entertainment buildings (300007206)
• multicolored (300252256)
• polyvinyl chloride (300014513)
• Postmodern (300022208)
• shop signs (300211862)

Wikidata items:
• 31 May 2018 (Q45920470)
• 2000s architecture (Q7160155)
• all caps (Q3960579)
• Atwater Avenue (Q2873527)
• bird control spike (Q337490)
• Buildings and structures completed in 2001 (Q9413382)
• LOL (Q2134)
• May 31 (Q2591)
• May 2018 (Q27952528)
• Montreal Forum (Q367272)
• party supply store (Q47519648)
• postmodern architecture (Q595448)
• Saint Catherine Street (Q391)
• Shaughnessy Village (Q3481558)
• streetcorner (Q17106091)
• Urban agglomeration of Montreal (Q2826806)
• Ville-Marie (Q247123)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Business names (sh85018315)

Much to look at!

Numerous licensed cartoon characters, licensed licensed licensed!

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In Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 25th, 2010, on the north side of East Charleston Boulevard (Nevada Route 159) between South 17th Street and Hillside Place.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
HF5469.654 Party supplies stores—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6227.S64 Specialty stores—United States—Pictorial works.
NK2195.S89 Store decoration—United States—Pictorial works.
NA6225 Storefronts—United States—Pictorial works.
NA3503 Color in architecture—United States—Pictorial works.
NK1570 Stripes.
NC1764 Cartoon characters.
HF5429.255 Licensed products—Pictorial works.
HD2346.U6 Small business—United States—Pictorial works.
HD69.B7 Business names—United States—Pictorial works.
F849.L35 Las Vegas (Nev.)—Pictorial works.

I wish that the names of U.S. municipalities wouldn't all've gotten settled generations ago, to suit the bland tastes of long-dead well-to-do, because I'd like for there to be a municipality called Partyport. Ideally, the city of Partyport would be a county seat.

This old business is in Jackson, Michigan, which is totally landlocked with no water running through it but for an itty-bitty creek, so it's a demonstration of the far-flungedness of humans' wandering imaginations that somebody in Jackson of all places was thinking about ports of all things. Maybe the owner had long dreamed of being or marrying a stevedore.

Or is 'party port' a wordplay of 'portapot.'

The lettering looks like it predates the times by which the word 'port' in its hi-tech sense could've ever reached widespread usage in Jackson.

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In downtown Jackson, Michigan, on March 26th, 2012, in an alley between West Michigan Avenue and West Pearl Street, east of North Jackson Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA6227.C66 Convenience stores—United States—Pictorial works.
HG3766 Business failures—United States—Pictorial works.
GT3911.A2 Shop signs—United States—Pictorial works.
GT3911.A2 Brick wall signs—United States—Pictorial works.
TA432 Bricks—Painting—Pictorial works.
NA3010 Doors—Pictorial works.
TS1124 Kraft paper—Pictorial works.
F574.J14 Jackson (Mich.)—Pictorial works.