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What Do You Think You're Looking At? #68

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 27, 2022
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We’re in Belleville, Michigan, between Detroit and Ann Arbor, and if you know your Americana, you already know what you’re looking at:

These buildings—1960s-ish Howard Johnson’s restaurants—are all over America, and many are still in use, with innumerable modifications to update or tailor them to their current uses. I often feature workaday commercial bu…

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