Sunday, October 3, 2010

Drink Coke! Buy Groceries!

Drink Coke

An old advert for Coca-Cola and Norton & Holley Wholesale Groceries on the back of a building. I can't find much about the Grocers but, as we all know, Coke is still alive and well. I really love these old painted advertisements. I wonder when and what caused people to stop making them?

Saturday, October 2, 2010

See it while you still can...

See it while you can

This is not a house but an old hospital. In fact, it was the first public hospital in the city of Danville dating all the way back to 1903! It hasn't been used as a hospital in ages and a fire that occured over 14 years ago has really done a number on the building. Recently the City has decided to tear it down, however not everyone is happy about it. It looks like it was once a beautiful building, but it really needs a good bit of money if it is ever going to be liveable/useable again.

The orange sign states that it is scheduled for demolition. It's really unfortunate to see some of this great architecture go down to rubble. The biggest reason? No one has the money to do what needs to be done. Danville has architecture that could rival Savannah, GA or Charleston, SC. The main difference is that those cities have huge tourism dollars flowing in to see it and Danville doesn't.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Graffiti

This is my first (of hopefully many) Theme Days here at DanvilleDailyPhoto. Honestly, with as much as this town seems to be on the blighted side, I honestly had to hunt for some graffiti.

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