I just found this photo from the mid fifties of a long gone building in the suburbs of N.O. It looks to be some kind of appliance showroom/cum filling station? How cool is this?! Nothing remotely as interesting there now, I'm afraid.
Petrolane, 1352 Jefferson Highway
from the wonderful reginonal modernism photostream.
Salma Hayek and Francois Pinault at the ‘Fondazione Cini, Isola Di San
Giorgio’ in Venice
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Because there’s nothing we love more in the world than telling billionaires
they have no style. Unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Fashion, aka Francois-Henri
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It's like the LAX of New Orleans.
Ooh ooh ooh. Love it! I clicked that link to the photostream & had to look away! Otherwise I'll be sucked in for hours.
I'm sure that a beige vinyl building would look far better than that! Or perhaps a gray cinderblock building with a red stripe. That architecture of yore just can't compare to the beauty of today's bunkers.
Is this one of Mean Dirty Pirate's "rest stops"?
I drove by there recently. It's STILL a gas station - a now-shut-down-post-Katrina gas station in front of a shuttered Circle K.
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