Government spending is cool.

I mean seriously, couldn't we...  no?

Big Pink Houses For You And Me

 

Serving a purpose.

A Plan

 

The free market built this, the free market would have demolished it, but inertia, and the special magic contained in the castle like tower spires kept the urban renewal gremlin from destroying this place in the service of the regional mall, a fate that befell many of the interesting buildings nearby back in the seventies.
Oh, and gubmint dollars as well.
Grumpy old dudes like TailGunner Ken, who actually live inside, grumble about the half assed management, and the lack of newness. But I'm so glad it's there.

Mushrooms

 

East Boise style.

Pie Slice Of Nature

 

Present tense.Like living in the shade, or at the bottom of a well.

507

 

How does it stay so well maintained?

Idaho Leather Headquarters

 

Just your standard, notch top box. Used to be ordinary, but through attrition, becomes something else.

Sink Of Dreams

 

At the end of the street in the land of trailerparks and warehouses, this sink of rocks is a reverse berm which hopefully filters all of the engine drips, tire leavings and motor dust out of the runoff before it drops itself into the river.
Nice thought.

Government Bunker

 

Such a nice touch to put a parking garage on top of this office building. We know who is king.

Apartments

 

Appliance Boneyard

 

Do you see the one on top with some words spray painted on it? The words spray painted on it are "food inside."
At least it doesn't say, "child inside."

The Green House Holds On

 

Against all the odds. The good thing is, no bulldozers are imminent. The bad news is, nothing else is either. But I love little houses like this. Human scale.

Higher Education

 

Nothing says "collegial" quite like an expansion of the parking structure in the center of the campus.

New U Rising, obviously.

Connecticut and Philadelhia

Public house in Connecticut. At least two hundred years old.

Copper lasts a long fucking time.