artdecostore

I'm trying something new this year, possible for the first time because of Google Maps recently adding RSS feeds to every customized map made there; I call it a &quot;placeblog,&quot; consisting of photos and write-ups of various random locations around Chicago I visit on my bicycle this summer and fall, only instead of presented by date they're all plotted on a city map, so that you search and browse by location instead of age. I'm originally uploading the photos here at Flickr, so that people can check them out in a normal fashion if they want; and then you can <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2009bikeblog">click here</a> for the actual placeblog/map, or <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;output=georss&amp;msid=112356573111939317036.000469d4bd545c821ff53">click here</a> for the RSS feed, or simply stop by the main headquarters for all my Chicago bicycle maps at [<a href="http://www.jasonpettus.com/maps/">jasonpettus.com/maps</a>]. Here: Although they're becoming rarer by the year, you can still randomly spot all the time here on Chicago's northside a plethora of retail stores that still have their original Art Deco signage from when the place first opened in the Early Modernist era, and with the signage still in pretty good shape too. Here, Granville Pictures, at the corner of Granville and Broadway, with signs that according to their website first went up in the early 1940s and have never been replaced.