Painted Bricks: September 2017

Friday, September 29, 2017

Railroad side buildings, Greeley Colorado

Railroad side buildings in Greeley, Colorado. Unfortunately, I can't read the signs.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Lex Anteinternet: Some things don't bear the test of time

Lex Anteinternet: Some things don't bear the test of time: The former Budget Inn in Rawlins, Wyoming. It was probably pretty modern looking when built, I'd guess in the 1950s or early 1960s. ...

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Bicycle Path, Casper Wyoming

I know what it means. . . but for all the world it looks like an insignia for Corporal of Bicycles.

Painted Bricks?

As we noted in our very first post on this curiously named blog, this blog started off as an effort to photograph and document the painted "ghost signs" on buildings in Casper, Wyoming.

It has since expanded, as we have photographed most if not all of those, into one that captures generally interesting older buildings anywhere, while still recording painted signs on buildings where we run across them. It is one of a series of photograph blogs we have, including our main site, Holscher's Hub, our site dedicated to churches in our region, Churches of the West; our similar site on courthouses, Courthouses of the West; our railroad site, Railhead; and our site dedicated to war memorials, Some Gave All.

In a way, however, this site is a history site, attempting to record a bit of the history of the West through the depiction of its buildings of a certain era. We have a couple of history sites as well, including Lex Anteinternet and Today In Wyoming's History. This one mostly lacks text, unlike those other two, with the buildings speaking for themselves.