Painted Bricks

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Vita Sana Olive Oil Company, Casper Wyoming

These are paintings on the side of the Vita Sana Olive Oil Company in Casper, Wyoming. The speciality food store sells more than olive oil, but its focus originated with that, as one of these paintings depicts.

Monday, August 24, 2020

Antelope mural, Laramie Wyoming

Somehow I missed this mural in downtown Laramie when I was otherwise photographing the excellent set of murals there. This one depicts Wyoming scenes very skillfully, along with a state map, on the side of a building.

It also contains a sketch of the mythical Wyoming jackalope and a quote from D. L. Moody. The quote depicted with the jackalope is; “Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”

Friday, July 31, 2020

Elk Mountain Trading Company. Elk Mountain, Wyoming.

This is the Elk Mountain Trading Company building in the tiny town of Elk Mountain, Wyoming. Built in 1932, the building and business name is presently used by a restaurant.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Graffiti Records Mural, Rock Springs Wyoming

This is a mural on the side of Graffiti Records in Rocks Springs, Wyoming.A fox and a jack rabbit adorn the buidling.

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.