Our second look. Last week (well, two weeks ago) was . . . unimpressive. Surely I clipped a lot because there was some surprising finds, no? We’ll see. I haven’t opened this folder since I set the pictures aside a year ago.

When your courthouse looks like a 1969 McMansion:

Oh dear

Hey, it’s a design element that says “different and modern!” I don't think the set designers who did sci-fi in the 60s thought of something like this. The columns don't even touch the base.

It's almost Flintstonesque.

Hey tree could you GET OUT OF THE WAY

If you look at another version, when the tree isn’t so leafy, you see “Watt Hairston Memorial.”

Watt? I mean, What? The HAIRSTON genealogy page has two pictures, and in each one he’s standing by a car. Must have liked to drive. Died in 1922 at the age of 39 . . . in an auto accident.

I have the sense Mr. Byrd built it himself, and no, he didn’t need no fancy city architect, he knew what he was doing.

Minor buckarooing to bring it up to modern times.

Sometimes in Planet Coaster, when I’m building a structure, the pieces just refuse to align exactly, and a part sticks up, and it drives me nuts. I’ll tear it down and start again rather than live with something that looks off.

The architect of this structure was not bothered by such a situation.

The ol’ Photoshop click-and-option-drag style. I’d call the style of architecture “extrusionism.”

The little lights tell me this was a club of some sort. Eagles, Elks. Maybe a swank 60s supper-club.

I love it. More downtowns need these. Every downtown needs one.

You really might not want to use a bank that seems to say "it's all we could afford."

Sure, it’s covering up an old building, but it does pop, doesn’t it?

Based on an old postcard, I believe it once looked like this.

A bizarre example of the Elephant-Man-Disease facade style.

Usually they didn’t stick on classical elements like the pediment you see here.

Whole new meaning to “make a deposit”

The building itself is mute; the style of the corner and pillar suggests 40s or 50s, but somehow it looks much older. But not excessively remade.

“It’s a college, so we’ll need, like, columns, somewhere.”

The original building can be imagined if you remove the columns and rethink the color of the brick. The lower floor is not contemporaneous with the second.

From the aforementioned postcard: it's in the back, on the left.

It’s WHEE.

They’re still around. I don’t know if they broadcast out of this place, though. Seems a bit underpowered.

Ah, the Stark Contrast I love so much and dump into the Google Street View site.

“And another fir in a planter . . . here. Just so.”

Finally, an old citizen with an old lamp post.

A lot used to happen here; seems those days have passed.