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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
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Pabst Barber Shop, 107 East Washington Street, Farber, Missouri

Cameo Barber Shop, West 1st Street, Mountain Grove, Missouri

Country Club Barber Shop, Sunnyside Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bob's Barber Shop, 4348 South & 900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah

Barber shop (once a bank), Wapato Avenue, Wapato, Washington

The Barber Shop, T Street, Perry, Oklahoma

Nolo's Barber Shop, Sepulveda Boulevard, Van Nuys, California

Williamson Barber Shop, Main Street, Roanoke, Alabama

Barber pole, Route 80, Hardin, Kentucky

Look Sharp Barber Shop sign (painted 1969 Volkswagen), Yuma, Arizona

Barber pole, Route 160, Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Barber sign (painted trash can), Sutherlin, Oregon

Barber sign, 25th Street, Ogden, Utah

Barber sign, Union Street, Waupaca, Wisconsin

Bob's barber pole, W. Nichols Avenue, Montevideo, Minnesota

Barber pole, Garden Street, Pensacola, Florida

Jane's Beauty Salon sign, Center Street, Warsaw, Indiana

Cora Collins Beauty Shop sign, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bridgeway Hotel (1936), Peasant Drive, Pierre, South Dakota

Brooklyn Hotel, still open, Front Street, Brooklyn, Iowa

Brooklyn Hotel, closed, Front Street, Brooklyn, Iowa

Strater Hotel, straight-on view, Main Street, Durango, Colorado

Beaumont Hotel, Main Street, Ouray, Colorado
