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TERRA COTTA GLIMPSES OF THE PAST.(Revs)
Byline: BOB TOMAINE
Take away the signs and Scranton's Casey Parkway might be a downtown office building, but look closely, and the details reveal something else.
Look quickly, too, as the 78-year-old parking garage is being razed, with only its cast automotive medallions being preserved for installation on its replacement. Saving the historic facade was simply too expensive an undertaking.
The garage's 18 terra cotta medallions each depict a mid-1920s vehicle. The sculptures range from a motorcycle whisking a rather jaunty couple ahead of a dust cloud to a dump truck that, given Scranton's history, is probably carrying coal. They ride on panels above the second and third floors, separating rows of windows that suggest offices rather than parking spaces. Even the entrance blends in, resembling as it does the first-floor retail spaces and helping to maintain that illusion of being something other than a parking garage.
In a 1920s way and in the Scranton of that time, it all makes sense. America was happily taken with transportation in general ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, TERRA COTTA GLIMPSES OF THE PAST.(Revs)