Scottie dogs. My book Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap features more than 200 examples of this mostly unintentional but sculpturally impactful artwork. Order via interestingideas.com, linked from my bio.

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Restaurante El Comedor, National Avenue, Milwaukee. Gone.

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The design of these three figures is quite common, and can be traced to Canada. On eBay they tend to be sold out of Canada or northern-tier states, and in the fourth image a Canadian source is printed on the base (Not all of these figures have this base). Meanwhile, my book about these pop-culture craft items, Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap, is now available. Discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft as creative individuals strung millions of them into baskets, figures, buildings, animals, chains, furniture and other shapes. My book features more than 200 examples of this mostly unintentional but artistically impactful sculpture. Order via interestingideas.com, linked from my bio.

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The Driftwood Mermaid 🧜‍♀️— an assemblage of found objects from the beach at the cottage on Lake Huron, where we’re staying. #VernacularArt

This rock south of La Rabida Hospital on Chicago’s South Side hosts some of the lakefront’s most magnificent carvings, 12 of them, all apparently from the same hand and executed between 1948 and 1953. When I first found it the rock was right at the water line, very wet and very colorful. When I returned this year it was finally well above the water, thoroughly dry and restored to its normal color. And the light was the best yet. Worth swiping to see the detail. You can see many more Chicago rock carvings in my book Lakefront Anonymous, which you can buy via my interestingideas.com site, linked from my bio.

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Action-packed photo was created and briefly thrived, bringing life to Pena's Automotive, 47th Street near Knox. Now a white fence. 1997 photo.

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Goodi's, Milwaukee Avenue at Golf, Niles, Illinois. The gyros cone was later replaced with a photo of a gyros sandwichYou can see hundreds more gyros signs at gyrosproject.com.

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