Almost 12,000 souls. Its Wikipedia entry suggests it was not home to a substantial number of famous people:
While radio DJ Alan Freed was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Salem. While working at a radio station in Cleveland, he coined the phrase "Rock & Roll.
So . . . yay Salem!
Okay, let's take a stroll.
Oh no
It’s like something made with extruded pieces from a Play-Doh Fun Factory. Love the period stones, though.
Believe it or not, it’s a landmark. A place with a storied past as a motel, if memory serves; I think we'll meet it this year in the Motel Americana section.
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It must have been a welcome sight once, but it’s passed into Addams Family territory. Regrettable bottom floor modernization. Can we see that sign?
There’s a great sadness in long-broken neon signs.
As time goes on:
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More evidence that the latter 20th century did not know a Got-damned thing about rehabbing street level facades:
Rather hard for the son to quit the business.
If he stayed on and took over after his father died, that name block would make his son a bit nervous. Do I hafta?
One Buckaroo’d Awning to rule them all:
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You don’t know if he was trying to be a good neighbor or capitalize on the Masonic building’s rep:
Whenever they do this, it looks like the company actually died.
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Not a lot going on in this part of town now, but once upon a time:
That's a lot of Motie work.
Once it was but two windows.
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Can I jush lean up against you bud I’m pretty hammered right now
Renovation?
Nope.
Later:
I'll have to stop back in a few years and see what's up.
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A fine old bank with the original clock, I think. Couldn’t be anything but a bank.
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Whoa! A little piece of Deco Miami in Ohio, albeit more sedate, because, well, Ohio.
It was originally the Farmer’s National Bank.
Really says "Farmer," doesn't it.
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“BL.”
Bank of Lincoln? Lincoln Bank? Rare mid block bank, if that’s the case.
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A not-entirely-successful design that seems a bit unsettling. Maybe it’s the top.
“Yes, dear, I promised I would.”
She was the wife of the owner, Mr. Zadok Street the Second. Really.
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Good Golly Miss Molly
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