This week's photos from around Columbia...
A face from the past
"Temporarily immortalized" on the mural at Eastern Drillers
Work in progress
Contact info
Uh-oh
A wider view
The finished project will look something like this.
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Knox box
Since the passage of the key lock box ordinance, businesses are beginning to comply. Looks like this building at Front and Bridge has had a box in place for some time.
Even though there's no roof.
Here's a few more around town:
Even the judge has one.
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That fence on Heritage is bent again.
Time for another fix.
Oh wait, someone already tried a fix.
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Some date stones from around town...
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Hands across the pillar
Some of Columbia's vintage architecture
Neoclassical
One the 300 block of Chestnut: two more examples of Columbia's unique architecture, here and below:
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On the first block of South 2nd: Patch City
Continuous seam - on and on and on
Achtung!
German soft pretzels. Das ist gut!
Non-matching pair
New lights at Rotary Park
Don't be.
Let your freak flag fly!
Second breakfast
Fixing up, sprucing up
Air BnB on North Fourth
Recumbent
Spraying down town square
Red-tail biding his time
All the flags are a-flyin'.
Out on Grinnell Avenue...
Water is continuously being pumped from a basement on 11th Street. The house was built on a spring.
There's the pipe leading from the sump pump. The borough plans to install an inlet and a line along the street to channel the water.
Apple thief
Gold pebble with a green cross on a concrete pine cone...ok...whatever, this
is Columbia after all. Anything goes.
Old School thermometer
Shot glass
(Peerless Hardware)
Down at the bridge plaza
Serve it at home.
Well, why wouldn't you?
Hole in the highway
Yep, they dug this up, too.
In a hole under a tent
A rehabbed house with two apartments and no available parking? How did this get through?
One meter is paid. The other isn't.
How would meter enforcement handle this?
Stone house
The Amvets is relocating, but the building is for sale.
La Voz: news for your head and a seat for your behind
What could go wrong?
Progress at the animal shelter
This wheat field on Ironville Pike was finally cut down this week after growing all summer.
Sprayin' 'em down!
So that's how they get the mud off the steps.
Good job!
A reminder
Good quote
3rd & Cherry
Another one in the "What could go wrong?" department: A gas fixture along the curb, unprotected, with this flimsy tubing
Anyway, right across the street, there's this plaque at what is now a church.
Mourning doves on the rails
Speaking of rails . . .
Norfolk Southern keeps running these oddball machines up and down the tracks.
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Fence down!
(Behind Hotel Locust)
Another door to nowhere -
(See last week's "About Town.")
It's still there.
(See last week's "About Town.")
Abandoned aspirations
One of a chorus of many this time of year
Under the bridge
Someone threw together these materials for support.
Sections of I-beams . . . and blocks of wood?
The words "slapdash" and "ramshackle" come to mind.
That bridge rehab project can't come a moment too soon.
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Google tells us this is a northern flicker, a type of woodpecker.
The dock is used for many things
Fishermen - Please don't cut and run. Wildlife gets caught up in this stuff.
Aladdin's lamp on the 300 block of Locust?
And now this is a tripping hazard.
Over on the 500 block of Walnut
Residents are expected to walk on these boards to get home. And if you have physical limitations, too bad!
Well, that was damned careless.
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New lines on Commerce Street
2nd gear?
68 - a troubled year in America
These will be coming down in the historic district as people move out (new edict).
Missing cap in Avenue G
Caught in the act
Overhead cargo
Biker rally
