More of Bay City, a Michigan town where styles of different eras collide like a knife meeting a wad of wet lettuce.

I’d guess the screen is a 50s - early 70s addition, but the Buckaroo Revival shingled awning was installed by someone whose sense of taste was surgically removed in a Tijuana clinic. The scars never healed right.

It gets better, in terms of awkwardness, which means it gets worse:

It’s like a bad Tetris move.

The pride of the town was once described thus. Bay Journal:

There was one brick building in the city taller than all the rest. It was a stately structure and had long stood as a monument of its own greatness and the city's pride. It had always been looked upon as being one of the most substantial and impressive in the state. Its lofty, majestic form towering above its younger and modern styled neighbors, could be seen from any point in the cities at the mouth of Saginaw river. It was the Westover block, corner of Washington and Center avenues.

What happened to it? One guess: It's the Phoenix Building.

There’s a nice way to take people’s minds off those alarming, disturbing things called “Obvious Entrances.” People get so confused! This is where I would enter but I don’t want to enter today. Yet it’s so big! I guess I must!

This is a perfect medium-sized-town bank rehab job. A corner building was turned into something abstract.

Guess we’ll never know what’s under there, eh?

Well, no; we do. (Scroll down to the image with the slider.) Why couldn't they have just left it alone and built this somewhere else?

It was the Crapo Building. Here’s what it looked like during the removal of the metal panels.

It’s like it opened the oven doors and got singed:

Umm . . . Famous Bay Citians?

They’ll gladly take Captain Kangaroo, but apparently Google has a problem with Lincoln.

Except Bob Keesham wasn’t born there.

Madonna, however, was.

Interesting. Built as two buildings - but do we think they may have had the same architect because decades later they had the same painter?

They’re like strangers sewn together.

Magnificence.

It’s named after its architect, James Shearer.

More magnificence: City Hall.

Here's the town: there's a lot. Have a look around.

And give my regards to Bay City!