BRICK TOSSED BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN

This little piece of a brick with mortar was sent to me by my dear friend Pat Fish who owns Tattoo Santa Barbara.

While running her dogs on the beach recently, she spotted this piece of a brick that had been pounded smooth by the surf. I LOVE IT!




Months later, Pat Fish came to visit me.

GRANITE CITY

GRANITE CITY
Art Deco Bank building is now a pawn shop

GRANITE CITY DEMO

BLACK BRICK, BABY

Tim thinks this Modernist building in Granite City was designed by Harris Armstrong. The building was once a bank and is now the HQ for Granite City Steel. Part of the old bank interior has a bank of marble teller windows with a steel rail a la Mondrian. There's three little windows with chunks of Dalle glass.

The bank entrance has a modest steel slab sculpture in the front corner and enameled steel boomerang art on the interior wall (photos will follow if I get in later this week).

While we were looking in various windows a security guard pulled up and shooed us. The only information I culled from him was that all the steel used in the building had been produced at the Granite City Mill.


Here's Tim on the side of the building below enameled blue steel panels.



Full view of the building from the back:



Elevator tower with geometric design on the brick face:



Black brick with yellow flecks:

ABANDONED MAIN STREET GRANITE CITY