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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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Trailer Sales sign, Clinton Highway, Knoxville, Tennessee
Tire Barn sign, Route 50, Yankton, South Dakota
Patriot Auto Sales sign, Clearlake Street, Springfield, Illinois
Champion Springs Service sign, Henderson Street, Fort Worth, Texas
Spray Trucks foam, prospector statue detail, Frontage Road I-5, Albany, Oregon
Tire Man statue, 2nd Avenue South and 21st Street South, Birmingham, Alabama
Ideal Used Car sign, 1990 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
United Auto Sales statue, Route 64, Clarksville, Arkansas
Erie Foreign Car Parts sign, front, Mohawk Street, Whitesboro, New York
I.P. Anderson Tire Co. sign, Montana Avenue, Billings, Montana
Wetmore's Garage, Ferndale, Michigan
Bob Lindsay Auto Co., Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Louisiana
Gates Tires, Washington Place and Grandview, Mar Vista, Los Angeles, California
Tom's Auto Body, 7229 West Melrose, Los Angeles, California
Motorcycle Parts and Accessories, Route 85 Greenway Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Yellow Cab Co. sign with clock, South 7th Street, Saint Joseph, Missouri
Huge Uniroyal tire heading into Detroit, Michigan
Sally's Flower Shoppe sign, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas
Betts Truckstop sign, Route 19, Chiefland, Florida
Bud and Ben Mufflers sign, W Illinois Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Jim's Men and Boys Shop sign, Broadway, Trenton, Illinois
Elmore Pharmacy sign, Walnut Street, Red Bluff, California
Pashka's Sport Shop sign, Route 27, Hayward, Wisconsin, Hayward, Wisconsin
