These buildings have nothing at all in common with each other. www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/we-all-hop...

On what housing advocacy may have to say about places that few people currently want to move to thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/yimbyism-a...

There’s a shortsightedness is thinking that the success of the top 3-5 American cities is just a fact, not a moment in a long process of rise and fall and rise, which is imperceptibly playing out in all sorts of places www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/yimbyism-a...

It can be tough to discuss downscale places with housing advocates because they often detect the sentiment that moving to places with cheap housing and no jobs is the “solution” to the housing crisis. I am thinking about housing and downscale places a little differently here

This is *not* an old A-frame IHOP. In fact, it did not begin life as an IHOP at all. www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/we-all-hop...

There are a number of old Kinney Shoes buildings that look like this - this one is in New Jersey, and I've seen this exact remodel in Virginia and Maryland. These are heavily modified. Any one have any idea if this was a brand refresh, or done by someone else who took them over?

Long thoughts on stuff, nostalgia, and aging www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/sacramenta...

I love this photo (Ballston, Arlington, Virginia)

One more! This, also Route 22, in Lebanon, New Jersey (further west, less developed) is a small shopping center with a brewery and seafood market. Believe it or not, the front portion of the structure was, and internally probably still is, a diner, which was expanded and wrapped over.

Here's another one, actually just down the road on 22. You can see that the "diner" is a structure that was built around a house. If you trace it back far enough in newspaper archives, it is first given as a residential address in an obituary - likely the home which had been turned into a tavern.

For example, this building Route 22 in Bridgewater, New Jersey was built in the 1940s, and that central column/entrance area was originally where an entire second-floor apartment was located, where the restaurant owners lived! This was just...allowed.

The things that I love about Northern Virginia are the things I love about America www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/northern-v...

This is, I think, an underrated thought. I think on a gut level many people see YIMBY/housing abundance/etc. as not just threatening “neighborhood character” but as abolishing “communities” as such www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/crisis-and...

This old photo of the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., taken between 1920 and 1950, is a pretty striking example of how bland, cookie-cutter architecture can really grow into itself and mature over time

Thinking about how the trajectory of cities in the 20th century looks a lot like a mass technology that's rendered obsolete, widely discarded, and then rediscovered but not quite understood (rendered an artifact, not a common thing)

This newspaper item would lead you to believe that the building in question is no longer standing, wouldn't it? (link in reply)

If it doesn't say imported or di Parma it probably isn't. Although I have seen real imported prosciutto also prepackaged. I'm not sure I've ever had that one. Those pastas are excellent! I use them a lot (I use this one with pesto sauce, it just seems like the perfect shape)

I bet it's both, deli slicers are a thing they care about there and take seriously. I do have this picture from Wegmans! This is pre-sliced prosciutto without the inedible outer skin removed!

None of this feels weird, or radical, or “un-American,” or “political.” It doesn’t make you think of activists or agendas or ideologies. Rare as places like this are in America, they feel—for me, and I think for most people—absolutely and utterly normal. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/one-town-t...

Not sure my garage has ever been hotter

Alright that is kinda cool

I've been thinking about this kind of question for years but was reminded about it visiting the Italian Alps, and seeing this breakfast room in our hotel. It looks so strikingly like an old American pancake house/family restaurant.

So close yet so far

You could really have fooled me that this was a Catholic church!

Being in Europe in the middle of this heat wave and seeing stuff like this (an art installation warning about plastic waste) is infuriating

I never really thought about that but I can't think of another nut/fruit/seed that has that structure. I guess it's a palm thing. At a museum the other day we saw a half a Seychelles nut used to make a royal bowl. Those are basically giant coconuts!

Didn't know you could see St. Patrick's from Times Square!

It's neat how much outer/newer Salzburg, Austria looks like a small Pennsylvania city!

The "plain language" in this Salzburg museum is funny/condescending/moronic