The ghost sign for Beebe & Runyan Furniture Northwest is located at 2014 9th Ave. in Seattle’s Denny Triangle. Now a Cornish College of the Arts building, this was once part of a company whose veritable empire spanned Omaha, Kansas City and Denver.
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Ellipses in the Key of Blue by Oakland-based artist Randy Colosky is a temporary mural in the South of Market area of San Francisco, covering the site of the Yerba Buena/Moscone BART station, currently under construction. It is on view until May 2015.
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Designed by Willis Polk, completed in 1914 and now celebrating its centennial, the Hobart Building is located at 582 Market St. on the edge of the Financial District in downtown San Francisco.
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Something about a dentist… I spotted this ghost sign in Kansas City, MO on East Truman St. between Prospect and Montgall Aves. Actually, the best part of this find is the amazing building that houses the old signage!
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Northside’s CoSign Initiative Could Become a National Model after Landing New Grant: awesome, awesome news for CoSign [but next time, please ask for repro rights; WTF?].
Cincinnati’s Gorgeous Attempt to Woo Visitors, Circa 1933: some of the glass mosaic murals from the Cincinnati Union Terminal currently live at CVG and will hopefully find a new home soon.
Suburban Blight in Kansas City: just that, in words and pictures.
The New York City Filming Locations of The Warriors: only one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen on the Internet.
City Walk: The Show Is Afoot!: a TV show about walking through cities like LA and NYC; sounds pretty cool.
Warby Parker Gets All Coney Island with New Collection of Specs: this video is a hypnotic bunch of hipster douchebaggery, set on the Coney Island boardwalk.
Animal Commuters: Strangest Creatures Found on Public Transit around the World: bizarre but kind of awesome.
The Commons is an alleyway that runs West from Baltimore Ave., between 10th and 11th Sts. in downtown Kansas City. It’s a public meeting and resting place whose design elements recall the landscape before the encroachment of people.
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Located at 423 Central Avenue NW, the KiMo Theater is one of Albuquerque’s most famous landmarks, designed by Carl Boller in 1927. It is an elaborately decorated three-story stucco building in the Pueblo Deco style.
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The Lensic Theater is located at 211 West San Francisco St. in Santa Fe. It was designed in a pseudo-Moorish, Spanish Renaissance style by the Boller Brothers, a Kansas City-based architecture firm that specialized in movie theaters and vaudeville houses. The theater opened in 1931.
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Peck’s [actually the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company Building] is located at 1044 Main St. in Kansas City, MO in a former shopping area known as Petticoat Lane, in what is now the West Ninth Street-Baltimore Avenue Historic District.
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The Baker-Vawter Building, designed by Hoit, Price and Barnes, is located at 915-917 Wyandotte St. in Kansas City, MO. It is now called Lofts at 917, but the ghost sign on the side and the name on the front façade remain. Those windows are amazing.
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