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Nice example of how we've allowed corporations to scatter what what in effect are their logos all over suburban America. Most of these buildings look like they're 3, 4 even 5 generations removed from original use - and yet the building form is immediately recognizable by almost anyone in America. Any one of these buildings could be located in nearly any city in America - there is absolutely nothing unique about them. And they are almost always located in communities that have absolutely nothing unique about them. It is the same community that was created again and again and again - all across America and for what? Not a single one of those places is anywhere anyone would want to visit, and yet, this is where most of America lives.
The Pizza Hut near where I grew up is ... still a Pizza Hut!
But, yeah, they are easy to spot. As are the former locations of a defunct Ohio convenience store called Lawson's; this is what they looked like when I was a kid:
And this is what one Lawson's former store in Erie, Pa., now looks like:
JR_C, there are probably plenty of ex-Lawson's stores around your neck of the woods as well. The store where I bought cigarettes as a teenager is still a convenience store --- Circle K. I'd have posed a picture of it, but there's a bus in the way.
Lol The Taj Express is close to me in Dallas, not very good BTW. It is sad, and they're all over DFW. What's worse is people use the phrase "it looks like an old pizza hut" to give you directions.
JR_C, there are probably plenty of ex-Lawson's stores around your neck of the woods as well. The store where I bought cigarettes as a teenager is still a convenience store --- Circle K. I'd have posed a picture of it, but there's a bus in the way.
Not a single one of those places is anywhere anyone would want to visit, and yet, this is where most of America lives.
One of the main reasons I live in Manhattan is so I never have to see buildings like that.
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is still a convenience store --- Circle K. I'd have posed a picture of it, but there's a bus in the way. 
