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Let's look at Art Deco
« on: November 09, 2018, 09:18:01 AM »
Well, I want to "cleanse my palate" after looking at the Brutalism thread.... and I love art deco!

So let's see some lovely images.

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2018, 09:40:50 AM »
WI Gas and light building

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2018, 10:14:01 AM »
Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric locomotive

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2018, 10:27:42 AM »
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2018, 10:30:07 AM »
Never gave any thought to the HSc being an Art Deco design, but damn, yeah it is.
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2018, 11:17:55 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 09, 2018, 10:30:07 AM
Never gave any thought to the HSc being an Art Deco design, but damn, yeah it is.

It seems like nearly everything from the 30s and 40s had Art Deco design elements. The future was going to be flying cars, and space travel... but what we actually  got was people pooping in the streets and virtue signalling abortions. :'(
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2018, 12:18:43 PM »
Quote from: brimic on November 09, 2018, 11:17:55 AM
It seems like nearly everything from the 30s and 40s had Art Deco design elements. The future was going to be flying cars, and space travel... but what we actually  got was people pooping in the streets and virtue signalling abortions. :'(

Quotable.  I might steal that for the Book of Faces.

The Savage pistol predates what Wikipedia says is the beginning of Art Deco.  But anyway

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2018, 12:46:10 PM »
Indie mechanic near me has two of these '36 ELs, one of them is his daily rider.

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2018, 12:53:53 PM »
Old picture of a movie theatre in my hometown. They restored it about 8 years ago.



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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2018, 12:59:30 PM »
1941 Oldsmobile:

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2018, 01:39:19 PM »
Quote from: charby on November 09, 2018, 12:53:53 PM
Old picture of a movie theatre in my hometown. They restored it about 8 years ago.



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Looks like the Coronado in Rockford, IL.  Was just a movie place when I was a kid, but it's been refurbed into the "Coronado Performing Arts Center".
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« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2018, 03:37:22 PM »
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2018, 05:26:19 PM »
Pop had an Indie.  Used to commute to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on it.  As a critical worker, he had an extra gas ration, so he'd fill up the car, then use the gas in the 'cycle for economic commuting*.  Thus we had plenty of gas for extra travel.  Mom hated the motorcycle.  I'm not sure if she coined the word "murdercycle," but she might have.

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2018, 05:30:45 PM »
I prefer Art Nouveau. Prettier.
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2018, 06:05:25 PM »
Just about every Chicago suburb had/has a movie house that was built in the Art Deco era.  Some have been torn down, quite a few have been restored (to various degrees) and others are still awaiting restoration.

http://www.roadarch.com/theatres/il2.html
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« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2018, 06:33:28 PM »
I always liked buildings with those glass bricks you couldn't really see through.

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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2018, 09:13:15 PM »
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2018, 09:50:07 PM »
Not sure what style this is but I like it:



AT&T's "Batman Building" in Nashville, TN
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2018, 10:01:14 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on November 09, 2018, 09:50:07 PM
Not sure what style this is but I like it:



AT&T's "Batman Building" in Nashville, TN


Sauron Classique?
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2018, 10:07:09 PM »
Yeah, AT&T has some really nice facilities...or so I've heard.
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2018, 03:52:37 PM »
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2018, 04:32:07 PM »
Quote from: Andiron on November 11, 2018, 03:52:37 PM
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« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2018, 07:54:18 PM »
One of the few rail survivors of the Art Deco era.





Plus there's this "Art Deco" piece at the Museum of Science and Industry also...

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/
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Re: Let's look at Art Deco
« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2018, 07:21:51 PM »
Another one.

The Stout Scarab.  Never went in to production, alas.



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