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Welcome to my humble website, I'm Pokey. I take a lot of photos and sometimes write articles about various topics including history, architecture, old tech, the paranormal, and more.

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If you'd like some CC By photographs, check out my Wikimedia Commons page

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Lookin Down - Terrazzo & Tile

While strolling through a downtown or other urban center, you're naturally looking up, towards the thousands of dollars of flashy signage fighting for your attention. The ground is for welcome mats, trash, and cracks in the pavement, and most people direct their eyes elsewhere. However,…

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Monthly Junk - October 2024

Welcome to the next installment of Monthly Junk, a series which really really needs a better, less crass sounding name. But with the looming election, my mind isn't cracked up for any stress-inducing tasks like name generation, so Monthly Junk it remains. We got a big one this month-…

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Regency Square Mall - Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville's Regency Square Mall answers an important question in the modern retail leasing landscape: just how long can you puppet around the husk of a once successful center, as the walls literally fall down around you? Jacksonville, having long embraced suburban sprawl, is awash with…

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