Website Updating: Mid-Century Modern Buildings (part 1)

Moving on to the biggest section of all and the last one for this winter project.

The former Apex Department Store in Pawtucket, RI has been demolished:

This former car wash canopy in Fort Lauderdale, FL is gone now:

This store in Spirit Lake, IA moved to a new location last year and these signs are gone:

This Lustron house in Peotone, IL is the only one that I know of that has been adapted for commercial use. It now houses the Dolo Miti sandwich shop:

I haven’t shot the one in WaKeeney, KS — but here’s what it looks like at Street View now. Apparently, someone disassembled all the steel panels, inside & out, and moved them to Canada:

This Lustron in Loudonville, NY has been demolished:

This building in Jackson, MS has been demolished. Originally, it was supposed to be included in the new development but that didn’t happen.

The photos of the redeveloped former Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel in Jackson, MS are up at StreetView now. They actually did a very nice job with restoring the sign and preserving the canopy and building behind it. One of my photos from 2019:

And StreetView from last year just before it opened as the Hen and Egg restaurant. To nitpick, I wish the original, closely-spaced flagpoles in front of the building were still there and they hadn’t gone with the green glass:

This bank and its canopies in Farmington, NM were demolished last year:

The Budget Inn in Kingston, PA has been demolished:

This former Fotomat in Shelton, WA is gone now:

For a while, there were two of them side-by-side, missing their planter bases:

The Sussex County Technical School in Sparta, NJ had two of these geodesic domes. The one over the pool was demolished but this one survives:

This motel in Wildwood Crest, NJ has been rebranded as the Ala Kai North and this sign is gone:

This motel in North Wildwood, NJ…:

…has a new name but thank goodness they left the bird panel:

The Tangiers Motel sign in Wildwood Crest, NJ fell over on the roof and was badly damaged in 2020. It is still missing and I assume it won’t be back: