Tim Kiser:
Ah the early 2020s, a time of ongoing improvements to the lived experience of U.S.-dwelling humans.
Tim Kiser:
For your collection of pictures of municipal government logos on rolling plastic trash bins.
Tim Kiser:
Federal courthouse nonsense sentiment "HAPPINESS TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH SWIFT AND UNFAILING COMMUNICATION."
Tim Kiser:
Trowel-sweep stucco is to asphalt pavement as faux stacked stone veneer is to brick pavement.
Tim Kiser:
A pink-colored cutie-pie smalltown courthouse from 1875 is shown with contemporary razorwire.
Tim Kiser:
Ah the brown cupola of the Pack-n-Ship Center, LLC, a beloved local landmark of Menominee, Michigan.
Tim Kiser:
In downtown Menominee in 2024 we watched as the famous Crawford Block, erected 1895, attracted a 2008 Toyota 4Runner to its front door.
Tim Kiser:
"In 1912 the freemasonry came beige," went my interpretation of what I was seeing. "They took their freemasonry beige."
Tim Kiser:
It was built in the mid-1920s and it used to be a gas station, but nowadays it's just a small generic commercial building surrounded by car parking.
Tim Kiser:
WE PROJECTED OUR MEMORIES OF THE YEAR 1902 onto the back wall of a smalltown opera house erected that year.
Tim Kiser:
For this one I stood across the street diagonally from the Menominee Opera House and fluttered my eyelashes at it.
Tim Kiser:
From 1895 came a four-story tower for a downtown streetcorner on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Tim Kiser:
It was built circa the 1860s-1870s, and I imagine it has been considered for demolition at various times.
