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MID-CENTURY DREAM: August 2005
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Friday, August 19, 2005. There are worse things they could do. News from my neighborhood: The Southside location of Rizzo's is gone! The venerable Italian restaurant has vacated its digs on Chippewa, and a new Turkish/Mediterranean joint is about to open in its place (which, I was sad to learn today, was. Sonic Atroph...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: March 2007
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Thursday, March 01, 2007. Webster Groves: Giant fruit advocacy starts here! Though nobody seems to ever sit in them- blame their propensity for collecting rainwater that then sits for days upon days- the "apple chairs" are a distinctive feature of Webster Groves' "Old Orchard" neighborhood. Gotta wonder if the apples ...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: September 2006
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Sunday, September 24, 2006. Now here's something you don't see every day- at least not in the last 15 or 20 years.A Woolworth's sign. After our morning coffee, we had to get a daytime shot of the old Ritz Theater- which is now a dance studio—and this great old bar sign just down the block. We had a long drive ahead, b...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: December 2007
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Monday, December 17, 2007. Stickin' It to the Mansard. Sunday, December 02, 2007. Remember when I was discussing the opening of Aya Sofia. Just a couple of years ago? Just across Chippewa (at Lansdowne), Lion's Choice. Dunno why, I just do.). A little farther east, eulogies for the St. Louis Hills Office Center. Nearb...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: October 2007
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Sunday, October 14, 2007. Free to a Good Home. King Pin was originally a Brunswick facility, and I think these seats still have the Brunswick logo on them somewhere. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Free to a Good Home. TOBYBELT: If you like this blog, you'll love Toby's.
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: April 2006
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Thursday, April 06, 2006. Defendant pleads Robble Robble. In Beckemeyer, Illinois- between Carlyle and Breese- there used to be a drive-in theater called the Car-Breeze. But in its place stood something pretty wonderful:. His torso was found several paces away. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). When I'm not investigating al...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: July 2006
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Wednesday, July 12, 2006. See, it's not just me. Since I brought it up a few months ago, I was pleased to see that a sorta-well-respected music site is with me on the Sufjan thing: Check out Stephen Thomas Erlewine's well-considered article at www.allmusic.com. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: May 2006
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Friday, May 26, 2006. Is leading a Broadway revival. When I first saw and photographed the Marquette in the mid-‘90s, it was at its lowest point. Through the dusty glass doors I saw a once-proud lobby littered with dirty mattresses and other debris, and the neon signs were broken and rusty. Articles and possibly exagg...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: November 2007
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. A lazy afternoon in Columbia, IL. You can't spend a 73-degree November day indoors, though, so I took a nice walk up and down Main Street in relentlessly-pleasant Columbia, IL. I stopped for a burger and a Boulevard at Tiny's Pub and Grill. I peered into the windows of Greenfield's. Above),...
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MID-CENTURY DREAM: February 2007
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Mission: To preserve, catalog and celebrate the signage, architecture, and graphic sensibilities characteristic of the period from around 1930 to 1970. And to have a good ol' time doing so. Friday, February 16, 2007. Beardstown, Illinois: January 2007. Let us now dig Beardstown, an Illinois River town that’s faded some since its heyday but is still holding its own. Beardstown has had a bowling alley at 218-222 West Main for over sixty years (it appeared in the city directory in 1943, but not 1939), and i...