(Today feels like an Edward-Hopper-in-the-city day: over-bright and weary.)
(Incidentally, is the building featured in Hopper’s 1913 Queensborough Bridge the same as the “forgotten building under the bridge” (aka Queens Terra-Cotta building) recently spied at Scouting NY? The New York Times wrote an article on the building in question which dates the construction of the building at 1892.)
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i WANTS that building o_O
You better move fast! The Cuffycoat Detective Agency was inquiring about it this morning. Something about the building having a boat launch and a submarine pen.
There’s an old Pure Oil gas station in downtown HArtwell, GA in a similar situation to that building under the bridge. CVS bought the block where the station sits and tore down several non-historic shack types of buildings to make space for the drugstore. However, because the gas station building was part of a historic preservation district, CVS couldn’t (thank goodness) demolish it.
CVS doesn’t seem to be interested in spending the money to renovate the station. Like Citibank, it has left the building to the mercies of time and weather. The local downtown development authority is interested in getting a grant to renovate it and convince CVS to let them use it as a welcome center. It’s a really neat old building. Keep your fingers crossed!
I want to believe that someone will restore the poor building. As it currently stands, it’s quite a depressing situation.
It does look rather magical though, one of those old places you’re certain belched puffs of whipped cream from its smoke stacks and oozed golden carmel inspiration in the “good old days.” (Banana splits, anyone?) All the while, housing the most positively shadowy characters by night, cats melodically yowling from the roof top at the rising sun. All good stories should end like that I think; sun, cats, and stylishly-hatted shady gents on rooftops…