Painted Bricks

Monday, January 11, 2016

Center Street and 2nd, Casper Wyoming, at night.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Silver Dollar Bar & Grill, Cody Wyoming

The Silver Dollar Bar & Grill in Cody Wyomign, which features a painting of Buffalo Bill Cody on its side.

Monday, December 14, 2015

Bank of America Center, Houston Texas

I hardly know what to make of this structure, which is somewhat out of place on this blog. In taking this photograph, I actually wondered if the lower part of this very large building was a church. It isn't, its the Bank of America Center.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Painted Bricks: A Casper Wyoming Plaza?

We reported on the concept of a Casper Downtown Plaza in this post:

Painted Bricks: A Casper Wyoming Plaza?: As reported this past week in the Tribune and in an article in the Journal , the Casper city counsel has given provisional approval to dedi...

The Casper City Council has now approved plans for the plaza, a necessary step in order for it to come about.

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.