Scenes from the A Train. Is it art, or graffiti?

Union Station. Arrival of the A Train

Scenes from the A Train. "Love this City".

Mural on business along Denver's A Train.

Scenes from the A Train. Murals

Some sort of decorated building in Denver, as photographed from the moving A Train.

Scenes from the A Train. Sugar Warehouse, Denver Colorado.

Old sugar warehouse as taken from a moving train, the Denver RTD A Line.

Shoshoni street scene

A recent street scene from Shoshoni, Wyoming.

The lumber and furniture stores are closed, and the mural of an Indian family, on a building in this tiny town which borders the Wind River Reservation, is not only probably offensive but clearly from a bygone era.  The bar remains open. The big red building used to be the legendary Yellowstone Drug Store, famous for its malts, but its relocated down the street in a location that borders the highway.  I haven't been in it since it moved.

Geronimo Mural, Shoshoni Wyoming

To say that the small Wyoming town of Shoshoni has seen better days would be to be exaggerating to the positive.  While the town hangs on, the old downtown district is a mess.

I don't know the vintage of these declining and fading murals, but they're well known to Wyomingites. They're flaking off and the buildings are collapsing, truly existing in a highly dangerous state, so these scenes will undoubtedly disappear soon.

Painted Bricks: Today In Wyoming's History: The City of Casper pon...

Painted Bricks: Today In Wyoming's History: The City of Casper pon...: Today In Wyoming's History: The City of Casper ponders closing Fort Casper Mus... :  I've photographed Ft. Caspar a zillion times, b...

The council determined not to close the Fort fro the winter months.



Good for them!

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Lex Anteinternet: The Corner Store. . . .isn't there.

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Paws

Holscher's Hub: Spirals

Holscher's Hub: Spirals

Lex Anteinternet: Happy Centenary! Things or rather places, that ar...

Lex Anteinternet: Happy Centenary! Things or rather places, that ar...: I've been meaning to post this forever but just wasn't in any big hurry to do it. Then it suddenly dawned on me that if I didn't...

The Gaslight Social Club, Casper Wyoming, at night.

One of several new eating and drinking establishments in Casper Wyoming, the Gaslight Social Club occupies what had originally been the American Nuclear building, and thereafter part of the Houston Plumbing Supply Company, at which time its upper floor was converted into an apartment, one of the very first older buildings in Casper to see such a conversion.

The interior of the building features Prohibition Era speakeasy murals.

Slightly out of focus. . . the egg beater

Hmmm. . . .a not very good photo of one of the purported "Seven Wonders of Casper", the dysfunctional Wells Fargo Bank "egg beater".

Built by what was then Wyoming National Bank, it originally, and indeed up until fairly recently, held a time and temperature sign.  Structural problems lead to that being removed, which were followed by howls of protests when it appeared the odd shaped structure itself would come down.

It hasn't, but it sort of serves as a sad reminder of a different time.