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So many elements in one sign. This must have been a stunner when new.
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(Nice when lightboxed.)

..though I'm not sure, I might have just kept traveling for another overnight spot.

Looked like a classic old two story motel, just worn out.

The second of a pair of vintage wall ads revealed in Highland Park when a building was knocked down. Amazing that it's survived, and done it so well.

(Easier to see in lightbox.)

A few years ago, in one of the worst areas of Detroit, a building was torn down. Hidden behind the wall was this wonderfully preserved wall ad. The times when boys like these wore "blouses" and rode their bikes around Highland Park are probably a century back now. Highland Park, where Ford made the Model T, once a a bustling town surrounded by Detroit, now a depressed, crime-ridden mess of a place, where murder and robberies are a way of life. Hard to believe that a little piece of history was so well preserved here, I'm totally amazed that no taggers have ruined this yet. Yet.

(Easier to see in lightbox.)

Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key. Inside the park is the grave of Flipper. Maybe.

According to other sources, Flipper (who was played by many dolphins, mostly females) came from Miami Seaquarium, not here. Who knows, really. It's all so confusing and contradictory. Just sing the song and believe whatever you prefer...

Everyone loves the king of the sea,
ever so kind and gentle is he,
tricks he will do when children appear,
and how they laugh when he's near!

They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
no-one you see, is smarter than he,
and we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder,
flying there-under, under the sea!