Yesterday’s Clippings looked at a Wells newspaper - sorry, the Wells newspaper, since it had Borged all the others. Now let’s look at the town itself.

I’m so sorry this happened to you

The mask turned it into an open-mouthed robot.

When he built the addition, there was just no way to make it all balance out. There just wasn’t.

Not an OUMB now, but it may have been.

Looks like it’s yelling at the trees.

Three approaches to modernization.

One of them got it right.

I am entirely and completely confused.

A combination movie theater / civic building?

It was a 1959 design, finished in 1960, and it replaced a theater that had burned down. The owner had a contest for a new name, and Flame won.

The awning does the building a favor by bifurcating it, so no one blames the top for the bottom. It’s an entirely different set of ideas up there.

And not good ones, to be honest; those columns up top at the end look ridiculous.

I can make out . . . E. F. Gohde.

. . . E. F. Gohde.

No - it’s F. F. Gohde.

Born in Wells, Minnesota, USA on 04 Jan 1885 to Henry C Gohde and Louise Weden. Fred Frank Gohde had 3 children. He passed away on Jun 1967 in O Brien, Josephine, Oregon, United States of America.

Take your choice: the battered, weary, peeling citizen on the left with the wonderful cornice, or the sleek, cohesive, and unfriendly one on the right.

There was something on the side, once, adding a note of color to the street.

Absolutely classic! The breezy California styles made it all the way up here.

Many questions. So they removed a projection on the second floor in the middle, obviously.

But why was the right side so ornate?

The Roman Embassy.

It is no longer forging ahead.

I like this, for its size and confidence:

Quite the monumental structure, for a town of this size.

Looks like someone had grand plans for the retail side. Perhaps a 80s Benetton Museum.

You know, I don’t entirely hate it.

You know, I do. Hate it. Entirely.

When was the last time anyone was upstairs?

You got a touch of Cornice Droop there, friend. Too bad Eishchens isn’t in roofing.

Modernistic! A nice curve there, and a fairly recent Champion sign.

By “recent” I mean, oh, 1968.