Category: Sorry, it’s been done already

Outmoded
 
⨳ There are remnants all around us of things that used to be top-of-the-line, completely necessary, amazingly useful, etc. Payphones. Full-service neighborhood gas stations with mechanics. The list goes on forever because things keep changing.
 
⨳ Those things and many others change and disappear. That’s no big insight, but it’s funny how things that were once new and amazing, then were taken for granted, now stand out as unusual once again.
 
Payphone shot in Hollywood, service station shot in south St. Louis.

aBRANDoned: Empty commercial real estate
 
⨳ Just like the folks at Not Fooling Anybody pointed out long ago, you can’t fool anybody.
 
⨳ You’re a big ugly fast food corporation and you shut down a location, but even if you remove your sign we’ll still know who left that ugly eyesore there, letting it get even uglier.
 
⨳ Well, sometimes we’re able to tell. Clockwise from top-left: Burger King, Captain D’s (?), Steak ‘n Shake, ?.