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San Francisco, CA, July 2008
This week's Thematic Photographic theme has been signs, so I thought I'd finish off the week with this one from outside my hotel room window. Old brick facades often contain so many layers of history that it's hard to decipher them. Tough as it may be, I could have stood there for hours. trying.
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Your turn: Care to take a shot at what this building might have experienced in the past?
I don't know what it experienced, but it is a really odd pattern of windows!
ReplyDeleteGreat Photo! There's something a little eerie about it.
ReplyDeleteI like that colour tone. Happy WW! :)
ReplyDeleteTotally amazing photograph. I constantly find myself reading the signs of old buildings trying to read the old adverts on them. Great capture!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great shot!!! Very interesting too:)
ReplyDeleteFascinating photo... the lay-out of the windows, the color of the walls and the faded signs - each intriguing. Seems like there's a story in those walls.
ReplyDeleteI like the color of the photo and the odd layout of the windows, great eye on spotting that shot.
ReplyDeleteI love when old paint has faded or been sandblasted off of brick buildings. I see "branch" there and a couple of other words that my tired eyes just don't want to decipher this morning.
ReplyDeleteCool photo. Mine's up as well.
It's amazing how random and isolated the windows look when the paint is stripped away. Exceptional shot.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought they were watermarks. lol! Great catch Carmi.
ReplyDeleteHappy WW!
Echoes from the past, eh? Some things never fade away...
ReplyDeleteInteresting shot, looks very strange the way the windows are.
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Very cool.
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Holly
I feel factory...the old-fashioned one where the bosses were the only ones with the windows, and the people working were expected to keep their heads down and their sewing machines going.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot! Stop by and play
IMPROGGING sometime. We’d love to have you!
I love old buildings. It's fun trying to imagine all that may have happened in them. Faint impressions are all that's left on the side of this one and I agree with the comments about the odd window pattern.
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looks like some sort of factory to me.... with windows too high to see out of...
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ReplyDeleteI've been eading but not posting while I was away. I just made it under the wire with the sign theme.
Come by and see my darling granddaughter as she turned 2.
It's like someone is snatching away the windows as you watch.
ReplyDeleteYou take very interesting photos. I like to read what's on old buildings too. Sometimes at the top they are named for the owner or builder. I can seem to make out the word "Francis" on it. I wonder if it said "St. Francis" at one time?
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