Handmade Pleas to Save the Fitzgerald Rooms at 1624
Taken February 2017
The Fitzgerald Rooms building stands at 1624 in Omaha, its street-level windows boarded over with plywood. Handmade signs taped to the brick, reading "U Know U Want 2 Save Me!!" and "We Love You," ask that the building be spared from demolition.
Taken February 2017
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