Another example of the stock terra cotta you could once find in a catalog. Here we’ve got the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company’s finest gothic panels on this former furniture store. It’s always a nerdy good time to walk around & point this stuff out to family & friends who absolutely do not care 1/2 - ThreadSky

ladytophamcatt.bsky.social • 98 days ago

Another example of the stock terra cotta you could once find in a catalog. Here we’ve got the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company’s finest gothic panels on this former furniture store. It’s always a nerdy good time to walk around & point this stuff out to family & friends who absolutely do not care 1/2

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chicagohistorypod.bsky.social•98 days ago

Lady Terra Cotta for the WIN!

ladytophamcatt.bsky.social•98 days ago

lol! I swear if I ever have to flee this platform I’m changing my name to that.

ladytophamcatt.bsky.social•98 days ago

All of this is sitting on the former People's Furniture Store. Decisions Were Made about those huge windows that once lured in shoppers, but one can still squint & imagine a time when folks without their own radio might congregate here to take in the heavyweight fight being broadcast from NYC. 2/2

feely.bsky.social•98 days ago

This is amazing

goodhart1989.bsky.social•98 days ago

Oh, dear (top windows!). I notice your U Haul has life-size cardboard cutouts standing at the windows, which surprises me--for years our U Haul (a single story bldg w/large glass windows) had a life-size Spock and Kirk staring out at people stopped at a stop light. Corporate policy??? Wild!

pattiwestside.bsky.social•97 days ago

Old thatre in KC in wrong neighborhood.

johnlarson.bsky.social•98 days ago

Very cool!!!

tymcbray.bsky.social•98 days ago

I love to read good cornice. Seriously,😳 a lot of detail and information.

goodhart1989.bsky.social•98 days ago

This is absolutely beautiful. I love how you love this stuff!

busterkeatongifs.bsky.social•98 days ago

Impressive!

tudorgrrrl.bsky.social•98 days ago

I love this shit. I love walking around cities and noticing these architectural details that are high up.

ladytophamcatt.bsky.social•98 days ago

Right?! Shit that’s been sitting there forever being its gorgeous self, but over the past century has somehow become visual white noise. Then one day you just look up & realize there’s an entire world up there you never noticed before.

tudorgrrrl.bsky.social•97 days ago

Yeah absolutely. I was in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago and it’s full of old buildings with amazing detail. So is Sydney really. Someone designed that and likely it had meaning to the people who built it or lived there.

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