The Painted Brick Building Sides of buildings in Wyoming's towns and cities, and sometimes from other areas of the West. An examination of old style advertising. . . as it looks today.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Owl Mural, Pinedale Wyoming
A badly framed image of a building belong, I think, to the Forest Service in Pinedale Wyoming. Nice mural of an owl.
Labels:
Mural,
Pinedale Wyoming,
Wyoming
Location:
Pinedale, WY 82941, USA
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5...
Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5, 2016
Rally for Public Lands:
Join Us!
—WHEN—
Saturday, November 5th
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
—WHERE—
Izaak Walton League,
4205 Fort Caspar Road
—WHAT—
Live music, keynote speakers, food & drinks!
Friday, November 4, 2016
Houston sidewalks
Labels:
Houston Texas,
Other sidewalk features
Location:
Houston, TX, USA
Monday, October 31, 2016
Library, Port Arthur Texas
Labels:
Libraries,
Port Arthur Texas,
Texas
Location:
Port Arthur, TX, USA
Lamar State College, Port Arthur Texas
Somewhat outside of the scope of this blog, but an impressive Southern building, this is a building at Lamar State College in Port Arthur, Texas
Labels:
Education,
Port Arthur Texas,
Texas
Location:
Port Arthur, TX, USA
John Fett Building, Port Arthur Texas
Labels:
Port Arthur Texas,
Texas
Location:
Port Arthur, TX, USA
Friday, October 28, 2016
Abandoned building, Port Arthur Texas
I don't know what this building was, but it must have been a good looking building in its day.
Downtown Port Arthur is undergoing a much needed renovation. It's a bit of a mess right now, but it's being worked on.
Labels:
Port Arthur Texas,
Texas
Location:
Port Arthur, TX, USA
Hotel Sabine, Port Arthur Texas
These photos depict the Hotel Sabine in Port Arthur, Texas. The hotel is an abandoned ruin and has been for decades.
It's a ten story building, built in 1930.
Labels:
Lodging,
Port Arthur Texas,
Texas
Location:
Port Arthur, TX, USA
Refinery Tanks, Harris County Texas
These are refinery tanks located quite near the San Jacinto Battleground. The refinery has painted some tanks with scenes commemorating the battle, a couple of which are depicted here. As these were taken from a moving car, they aren't the best photographs in the world.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Jardine's, Casper Wyoming
Location:
Casper, WY, USA
Welsh Furniture Company Warehouse, Casper Wyoming
Labels:
Casper,
Iphone Photo,
Warehouse
Location:
Casper, WY, USA
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petroleum Club to close...
Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petroleum Club to close...: Founded in 1949 with the purpose to “aid the industrial and productive interests of the State of Wyoming" the Casper Petroleum Club, a...
Saturday, July 16, 2016
First National Bank of Meeteetse, Meeteetse Wyoming.
This is obviously not a painted building, but this small brick building which now serves as a museum does provide a nice example of early 20th Century ornamental brick work. The small bank was built in 1901. It is typical for small town banks of this period.
Labels:
banks,
Meeteetse Wyoming,
Wyoming
Location:
Meeteetse, WY 82433, USA
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: What Are You Reading?
Over on our most active blog, Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading?:
That thread: What Are You Reading?
Stop over and let us know what you're reading!What are you reading?
A new trailing thread, dedicated to what we're currently reading.
And. . . we hope. . . with participation from you.
What are you reading right now? Add it down in the commentary section
__________________________________________________________________________________
June 21, 2016
Give Me Eighty Men
I'm presently reading Give Me Eighty Men by Shannon Smith. It's a history of the Fetterman Fight, and a history of the history of the Fetterman Fight. I'll review it when I'm done, but I'll note that the favorable mention of the book by the authors of The Heart of All That Is caused me to pick it up, even though I'd been inclined to previously avoid it.
So far, I'm enjoying it, and its certainly raising a lot questions in my mind about the Fetterman battle, although I'm reserving my judgment on various things so far.
That thread: What Are You Reading?
Sidewalk Compass, Denver Colorado.
Sidewalk compass located near the Brown Palace in Denver. Teh odd angle of the bottom photograph is explained by a desire not to have my shadow in it.
Labels:
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Other sidewalk features
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Barth Hotel, Denver Colorado
I don't know anything about it, other than that the Barth Hotel is located in Lower Downtown Denver.
Labels:
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Hotels,
Lodging
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Friday, June 24, 2016
The ? Supply Company, Denver Colordo
A snapshot, this depicts a building that has a tile sign noting that its a supply company, but I'm not sure what sort of supply company, as a tree obscures that part of thesign.
Labels:
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Iphone Photo,
retail stores.
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Icehouse, Denver Colorado
This old building in Lower Downtown Denver bears a name that is somewhat confusing. With a name suggesting cold storage, the building was in fact built as the Littleton Creamery and Beatrice Foods Cold Storage Warehouse. Now, however, its an apartment and condominium building and it also houses a bar named the Icehouse Tavern.
Labels:
Apartments,
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Iphone Photo,
Lodging
Location:
1801 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80202, USA
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
View House, Denver Colrado
The sign for the View House cites it was established in 1915. I don't otherwise know anything about it, other than that it's right across from Coors Field.
Labels:
1910s,
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
restaurants
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Penn Garage, Denver Colorado
Labels:
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Garage
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Monday, June 20, 2016
Bar, downtown Denver
Not sure of the name, but its next to Wax Tracks in Denver Colorado. An example of a contemporary bar mural, advertising Pabst Blue Ribbon. This place obviously also offers pizza.
Labels:
bars,
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
restaurants
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Saturday, June 18, 2016
The Clyfford Still Museum, Denver Colorado
Most of the signs up here are of older painted brick signs, of course. There are exceptions, and this is one, but this is particularly an exception as I'm going to comment.
Commentary from me isn't unusual, but usually it's on our Lex Anteinternet blog and not here. But I cannot resist.
This is a very large sign skillfully rendering a photo of Clyfford Still into a sign. The big streaks on the end of the sign is a late example of Still's allegedly artistic work, better regarded as junk.
Still was a 20th Century artist who, starting off in the 1920s, had a public art career. Early on he actually painted figures but, starting in the 1930s, his work began to somewhat resemble that of other period modern artists and following that it was reduced to colored blotches such as we see Still, smoking a cigarette, contemplating here. It's ironic that, in order to represent Still to the public, the museum has to use a photograph, rather than one of his crappy pointless blotched up canvasses.
On the side of the photo the following is set out:
The canvas was his ally.Apparently art itself, at least in an intelligible fashion capable of conveying some meaning to 99.9999% of humanity, was also his enemy as the result of the use of his weapons was the slaying of intelligibility. It's complete junk.
The paint and trowel were
his weapons. And the
art world was his enemy.
But then, a lot of "modern" art is.
Well, in that war the guerilla of public indifference is probably the victor, as the big result of stuff like this is the separation of humanity from its artists. So, if any meaning was intended to be conveyed, it's conveyed to a pretty self contained little crowd.
Labels:
Art,
Colorado,
Commentary,
Denver Colorado,
Mural
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Jackson's Sports Bar, Denver Colorado
Mural on the side of Jackson's Sports Bar in Denver, which is right across the street from Coors Field. This was taken from a distance as I was waiting to get into a Rockies game at the time.
Labels:
bars,
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Mural
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Pepsi Cola sign and The Dutch Mill sign, Champa Street Denver Colorado.
Sometimes the photos are just bad. The nature of snapshots, I guess.
Pepsi sign and The Dutch Mill sign, Champa Street, downtown Denver.
Labels:
advertisements,
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
restaurants
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
Friday, June 17, 2016
Storage Building, Lower Downtown Denver Colorado
Labels:
Colorado,
Denver Colorado,
Storage warehouse
Location:
Denver, CO, USA
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