(repost from February 2012)

According to Wikipedia, I live in the county with the third-highest median income ($104,259) in the US, and immediately to the West and East are #2 and #1.  We don’t have the income highs and lows of other parts of the country, so there’s a certain boring homogeneity in the neighborhoods and buildings.  It’s almost all nicely-groomed houses and standard corporate architecture….as the Quay Brothers said when visiting a doll museum, “it lacks pathology.”

Luckily there’s a strip about two miles away from my house that’s downmarket, a bit quirky, and to me at least, much more interesting.  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! 

Two interesting buildings:

. . . one showing a bit of Art Deco influence:

-R