The Flickr Pigmentedpavement Image Generatr

The sidewalk builders stirred red food coloring into their concrete mix!

Consulting firms expensively pretend to be adamant that EVERY RIVERTOWN IN THE U.S. needs a cute visual reference to a flowing river on the sidewalk pavements of the main commercial street in its central business district, and here was the Moline Illinois version.

The vacant lot at the right was occupied by a portion of the former Moline Dispatch building, demolished in 2022.

Per Google Streetview, the sidewalk ornamentation was installed sometime between August 2011 and September 2015: See it before and after.

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In downtown Moline, Illinois, on May 21st, 2023, at the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and 18th Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Moline (7014089)
• Rock Island (county) (2000528)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• concrete (300010737)
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• red pigment (300013533)
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• streetscapes (300249570)
• stripes (300010230)
• urban beautification (300055429)
• urban landscapes (300132447)
• vacant lots (300122264)

Wikidata items:
• 21 May 2023 (Q69306806)
• 2010s in transport (Q97500663)
• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)
• May 21 (Q2580)
• May 2023 (Q61312956)
• Quad Cities (Q1660598)
• tactile paving (Q884259)
• Treaty of St. Louis (1804) (Q28433157)
• Treaty of St. Louis (1816) (Q28433158)
• Western Illinois (Q14925128)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Rivers in art (sh96011971)
• Streets—Illinois (sh88002225)

The roadworkers stirred red food coloring into their concrete mix!

Imagine how bleak and awful we might perceive this area to be, if the crosswalk weren't pink.

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In downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on May 22nd, 2023, a view of overpasses on Interstate 380 and Iowa Highway 27 ("Avenue of the Saints") from the south corner of A Avenue NE and 2nd Street NE.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Cedar Rapids (7013565)
• Linn (county) (2000617)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• crosswalks (300003838)
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Wikidata items:
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• Treaty with the Sauk and Foxes, 1837 (Q119518273)

The lamppost-style streetight makes me want to feel elegant as I stroll the area. The pigmented concrete shapes are of the same kind that young people walk upon in cities, toward cafés and gallery openings.

"Terrace Plaza" yonder was erected in 1978 and has three elevators.

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In downtown Muskegon, Michigan, on May 28th, 2013.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
NA6232 Office buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA9074 Sidewalks—United States—Pictorial works.
HE371.A3 Street signs—United States—Pictorial works.
E169.12 Nineteen seventies—Pictorial works.
F574.M9 Muskegon (Mich.)—Pictorial works.