Eight thousand souls. Wikipedia says "Prehistoric people occupied the Richfield area for more than 7,000 years" and I'm sure that's so. If they made a main street, the evidence is scant.

That’s a mod sign.

I don’t care for it much, but I’d join any group that wanted to preserve it.

Oh now come on, Gary.

Pride and promotion is all well and good, but don’t try to pass off the building as something you started in 1958.

I love this little thing to death.

Not that it’s a great design; it’s not. But the thin brick, the angled window, the modern metal facade, the two-tone look - it’s perfect post-war jet-age swank.

Don’t you want to examine the bricks closely to see if that’s an addition on the left side? Otherwise, what were they thinking?

The sign’s nice. The Buckaroo awning takes away 20 points from the overall appeal.

Well, that’s fantastic.

HUISH?

Cinematreasures’ note just miiiight be written by someone with a monomaniacal take on projectors:

Built in 1938, this large, single-screen theater has an unusually large balcony.

A new Simplex projector and Super 80 Lamphouse and DTS digital sound system were recently installed. The Simplex is only the second projector to grace the Huish’s projection booth. The theater’s original E-7 projector is now on display in the lobby.

As you probably know by now, I like this stuff. I do. An entire downtown covered like this isn’t good, but the occasional example is nice, and surviving examples are instructive.

But often depressing as well.

“Name on the deed says ‘Harvey Dent.’”

That’s nice: you can stand up and observe the downtown and perhaps get a heads-up if any torch-bearing mobs are headed your way.

Which makes its predecessors the Older Blocks, of course.

This is an interesting case study. No, really!

You think it’s a rehab, a brick job on an old 20s building that left the details exposed.

But I don’t think so. A previous view:

I think it looked like that when it was built.

I like the building on the left: it’s different. Stylized entrance, very 40s, in a way I can’t prove. Not crazy about the OUMB.

Alas:

Seems like a lot of effort to get the same effect.

They needed the parking, I guess.

OUMB from the polyester-suit-with-big-thick-knot-ties era:

We’ll end here.

Past trips by the google car showed the awning had cloth in 2015, but it’s been like this for a very long time.

Someone’s inside, though.