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Started by roadman65, November 21, 2024, 05:51:55 PM

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The School District Office looks more like a car dealer Lot.

I wonder if it ever was a car dealer. GSV shows it always as a school district facility.

How man others look more like something else than what they are.
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Every urgent health care center that is in a former Pizza Hut or Friendlys?

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Most modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.

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ND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:

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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 06:54:44 PMMost modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.

The giant fences a Cali thing? Schools around me from brand new to mid-20th century have no fencing at all, where as older (like back to late-19th century) sometimes have brick fencing that matches the building.

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Quote from: SectorZ on November 21, 2024, 07:12:04 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 06:54:44 PMMost modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.

The giant fences a Cali thing? Schools around me from brand new to mid-20th century have no fencing at all, where as older (like back to late-19th century) sometimes have brick fencing that matches the building.

I think it is a west coast thing.  I first noticed the giant perimeter fences being a regular staple at newer schools in Arizona.  Most of these facilities were built this century.

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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 07:13:21 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 21, 2024, 07:12:04 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 06:54:44 PMMost modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.

The giant fences a Cali thing? Schools around me from brand new to mid-20th century have no fencing at all, where as older (like back to late-19th century) sometimes have brick fencing that matches the building.

I think it is a west coast thing.  I first noticed the giant perimeter fences being a regular staple at newer schools in Arizona.  Most of these facilities were built this century.

That is weird. Glad I don't see that around the northeast.

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Quote from: roadman65 on November 21, 2024, 05:51:55 PMhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/qbKLLfhmPfXqye7J6
The School District Office looks more like a car dealer Lot.

I wonder if it ever was a car dealer. GSV shows it always as a school district facility.

It has all of the hallmarks of a 1980s-1990s car dealership; giant glass paneled front facade for new cars, a smaller out-building for used vehicles, garage doors along the side, gates/barriers all the way around to deter vehicle theft, and partial upstairs section for accounting/manager/parts inventory. I can't figure out who and what it was; many car franchises didn't need to have similar appearances and branding other than a logo or two until around the 2000s, so color-coding of buildings' facades and stylistic differences between marques was left up the whim of the owners. Franchise agreements are much more restrictive nowadays. Manta.com says a Ford dealership was originally located a few blocks north (It's a very large True Value store with semi-gated parking), so it was likely and Chevrolet or Dodge dealership, as this town is probably too small and remote to even bother with imports, and a huge risk to build a non-franchised store of that size. Who owned it before? Not sure if I care to dig deeper.

Usually the auto dealership in most towns and cities started out in the downtown, just a few blocks from the town square. As inventories and demand grew, the more successful ones needed more space and cheap land was easier to find just outside the center of town. So they put it on the Bypass of US 71...which doesn't have a lot of business. Sometimes that worked out if the rest of the commercial areas spread out, but sometimes...well, the population of Waldron, Arkansas dwindled, according to Wikipedia. In this case, it probably failed in the mid-2000s. Street View shows the same School Board tenants as far back as 2008, which pre-dated the Major Domestic Dealership Collapse of 2008-2009 which shuttered about one thousand stores in the US (about 750 were Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep franchises), especially in small towns.

Rothman

Quote from: Big John on November 21, 2024, 06:59:00 PMND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:


See Louisiana's, too.  And Florida's.
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Or the detached single family houses and other similar structures that are in fact disguised pumping stations, power substations, oil drilling derricks and so forth.  There are many larger cities where rail transit stations are totally something else at first glance.

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Quote from: Rothman on November 21, 2024, 07:36:55 PM
Quote from: Big John on November 21, 2024, 06:59:00 PMND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:


See Louisiana's, too.  And Florida's.
Dang the State Capital Building looks like its a building meant for Rockefeller  Center and looks like it was intended to be in New York if you look at the building at first glance. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Center


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Quote from: bing101 on November 21, 2024, 07:58:27 PMAnd here is Walk Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

This one reminds me of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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Quote from: Rothman on November 21, 2024, 07:36:55 PM
Quote from: Big John on November 21, 2024, 06:59:00 PMND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:
....

See Louisiana's, too.  And Florida's.

Alaska's arguably looks more like a low-rise hotel (picture from Wikipedia because it shows more of the building than my own pictures do):

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Quote from: 1995hoo on November 22, 2024, 08:13:28 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 21, 2024, 07:36:55 PM
Quote from: Big John on November 21, 2024, 06:59:00 PMND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:
....

See Louisiana's, too.  And Florida's.

Alaska's arguably looks more like a low-rise hotel (picture from Wikipedia because it shows more of the building than my own pictures do):



Been there, too.  At least it's got the American Neo-Roman pillars on it.
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Quote from: Big John on November 21, 2024, 06:59:00 PMND state capitol. Looks like a non-descript high-rise.:

Hawaii' State Capitol don't look like a capitol either.  Looks government like, but like a specific bureaucracy office.
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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 06:54:44 PMMost modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.



I present for your consideration Monroe High School of Monroe, Washington.  Built next to a prison complex in a similar looking building.

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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 07:13:21 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 21, 2024, 07:12:04 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 21, 2024, 06:54:44 PMMost modern schools resemble prison complexes to me.  The giant fence lines are what sells it to my eye.

The giant fences a Cali thing? Schools around me from brand new to mid-20th century have no fencing at all, where as older (like back to late-19th century) sometimes have brick fencing that matches the building.

I think it is a west coast thing.  I first noticed the giant perimeter fences being a regular staple at newer schools in Arizona.  Most of these facilities were built this century.

It's common down here in the southeast too, especially for newer campuses.
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