Gift Giver

What does it mean?

Hygenic Dog Food

I love this old relic of the past. The building stands all alone... and the name is so antiquated. Now we're overrun with slick advertising and clever business names that I don't think hygenicdogfood.com would ever work these days...

... but then perhaps that's why this building stands unoccupied today.

Signs of the Past

Once was a building with windows... before 1927... bricked over thereafter...

Once was a billboard of sorts, for a family business, for a plumber...

commerce before the great fall of '29,

before the fall of '08

and all the little stumbles between...

These bricks have seen marching in the streets...

possibly arrests, stolen kisses, drunk students...

Paint fades ever so slowly, overlapping itself,

waiting for the new

as the past bleaches in the sun.