Painted Bricks: October 2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

Library, Port Arthur Texas

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

John Fett Building, Port Arthur Texas

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.

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.

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.

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.