Painted Bricks

Thursday, January 8, 2015

History flows on Poplar

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Engelke Brothers Maker's Mark, 1919, Casper Wyoming.

I posted one of these the other day from the same company, in which the year, 1913, was also stamped in. In this one, it was simply lined in by hand, for a much less professional appearance. Oddly, this one is a few years younger. It's also several blocks away, presumably representing the advancing sidewalks of the town in the teens.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Hedquist Construction Sidewalk Maker's Mark. Center Street, Casper Wyoming

Friday, November 21, 2014

Engelke Brothers Sidewalk Maker's Mark. 1913. Casper Wyoming.

It used to be the custom, and probably at least still partially is, for cement companies to stamp their names in their product. this is an example of a Engelke Brothers mark, in downtown Casper, from 1913.

Many Casper sidewalks were of this vintage in the general downtown area, but in recent years the sidewalks have been torn out and replaced, so these really old stamps are not nearly as common as they once were.

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.