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On the side of an old department store, hopeful town branding:
. . . is whether it’s been something other than a gas station for longer than it was a gas station.
I’ll bet a hundred guys around town tried to say this was their old relative.
Jones’ less fortunate half-brother:
Edward Hopper’s last phase is just so depressing:
Philco? Buster Brown? “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” Uh - okay
A glimpse through a door provides mysteries and revelations:
That’s a Coke sign, covered when someone built something next to it. Another old sign on the right.
You can see the state of the building from above.
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Annnnnnnd we all know what this was, right?
It had to be.
If I'm correct, it's Sharp Bros. Welding.
Hard to imagine what it looked like when first built.
This is not a squashed picture. This is a stomped-upon OUMB.
Or at least it was, once, I'm sure.
As I always say - well, not always, sometimes I engage in ordinary conversation that isn't cluttered with my own tics and opinions - every town needs a curved 30s / 40s building.
Pretty sure it was an auto dealership. They were the ones with the big windows, for obvious reasons.
Yikes
The side of the old IOOF building, erased with white paint.
It was not a good idea. It doesn't make them look new. It makes them look like ghosts.
This does not look like a store. It couldn't have been a store.
Home office, perhaps
They made ginning equiptment, I've learned. I wonder if the decoration was pried off, or if it jsut fell off.
The random jumble-o-stone rehab from the midcentury modern style. Adds nothing here, really.
Of course it's a phone company switching station, or whatever they're called. They never had any windows.
Very impressive sign placement there, Frontier.
The old train station has the look of the architectural equivalent of the village idiot:
Nearby, a warehouse by the tracks, smothered by nature's natural defense system:
I'm sure there's more, but I think that's enough. All the good stuff was last week.
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Our second look at Sherman. 
