The red and white chess board has been on my list of things to visit for too long, I've been passing this building several times a week for seven years. It's a long way off the road, and only the fact that it's painted like a chess board made me notice it.It's a big building, each of those red squares is a metre across and it's located in the middle of a marsh, about two miles off the main road. I parked my car and walked to it last Saturday evening and there wasn't a soul around.
What is it and what is its purpose? It's a shed for keeping farm machinery! Why is it painted like it is? To attract aliens or maybe it's just quirky, I don't know but I like it.
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Love it! It'd be so fun to live in a house painted like that.
ReplyDeletewell how curious is that :)
ReplyDeletei'm sure you couldn't miss it when it was freshly painted, maybe it was done to simplify directions...or maybe just to make 'em smile!
I like it too!
ReplyDeleteI only like it because it has achieved its aged patina (otherwise it reminds me of the Ralston-Purina logo). Some of the big, round storage tanks in the California Central Valley have that checkered pattern too. There's one outside Maricopa that is white and orange (but not aged). But good for you for recording it in photos. There was an abandoned service station from the 1920's (an Art Deco style in stucco) that I passed on a highway at least 4 times a year over my entire life. It was very cool and I always meant to stop and photograph it. About 5 years ago it disappeared, and now there's an ugly modern station and mini-mart there. Lesson learned.
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