It’s an odd downtown for 100,000 people. You’d think there would be more. Something big.

Two locals, captured for all time by the traveling panopticon:

A peculiar moment, an ordinary moment. It has the composition of a pre-abstract American painter who's a bit pretentious and wants to show the Real World and the people in it, and their trials and burden, or maybe their empty lives, hollowed out by the Boss class.

Here we have a rather clear demonstration of the virtues of rehabbing vs. modernization, no?

The one on the left suffered a 70s / 80s brick dullification on the ground floor, but as these things go, it’s not bad.

Blind old men.

Looks as if the Getz store occupied both. Eighties marble job on the ground floor. No sign of an old removed metal facade, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Waiting for the ball, or the flame.

Yes! That is one solid building, study and rigorous.

Looks as if it’s been treated with the respect it deserves.

Revisiting our guys.

The metal facade . . . well, I’ve spoken my piece on that.

Well, they tried.

It’s not an OUMB, because it has a nod to the historicity of its surroundings. Its a bit vague and empty, but it tries to speak in the old vocabulary. And at the time, it was a post-modern enough to feel as if it worked among the older brothers.

The glass block doesn’t fit, and I don’t care. It’s a unique note.

I wouldn’t give him any guff and maybe no one else did, either.

Be still my heart

I know, I know. RETVRN. But c’mon. Its magnificent.

THAT is one ill-proportioned MF, but I don’t care. So many buildings like this lost their tower, and while that might have balanced the building better, it’s so idiosyncratic that you have to love it.

Nothing unusual about this. . .

. . . and that’s the problem, isn’t it.

Rarest of the rare: a Moderne Masonic temple.

I mean, I’ve never seen one before, now that I think about it. Did it go against their ethos? Obviously not.

That’s just half. More next page.