Painted Bricks

The Painted Brick Building Sides of buildings in Wyoming's towns and cities, and sometimes from other areas of the West. An examination of old style advertising. . . as it looks today.

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Lousy graffiti, Casper Wyoming.


 

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Labels: Casper, Graffitti
Location: Casper, WY, USA

Friday, August 22, 2025

Don Juan's alley mural, Casper Wyoming.


 

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Labels: Casper, Mural, restaurants
Location: Casper, WY, USA

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Squatters, Salt Lake City, Utah.





 

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Friday, July 25, 2025

PHOTOS: New elevator parts lifted to roof of historic Con Roy building in downtown Casper

 

PHOTOS: New elevator parts lifted to roof of historic Con Roy building in downtown Casper

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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.
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