The Deleted Scenes

The Deleted Scenes

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #28

An illustrated series on the unexpected lives of commercial buildings

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Addison Del Mastro
Oct 20, 2021
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While researching something in Virginia, I ended up in Michigan (on Google Maps, that is). What I found was really interesting, and became this week’s building. We’re in Trenton, Michigan, to be specific, along a pretty ordinary-looking commercial strip. And our building is this pretty ordinary-looking strip plaza, in 2019:

This being Google Street View,…

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