Cottage Grove Street Art

Cottage Grove has a downtown that is a mix of old and new. Old buildings, some with old advertising designs on them sit beside old buildings that have recent artwork on them.

The backs of these buildings have see less TLC in recent years and show the age of the place clearly.

This run-in store has its own painting on the side of the building.

Important to Cottage Grove is Buster Keaton who made his 1926 film The General here. From Wikipedia:

The cast and crew arrived in Cottage Grove, Oregon, on May 27, 1926, with 18 freight cars full of Civil War-era cannons, rebuilt passenger cars, stagecoaches, houses, wagons and laborers. The crew stayed at the Bartell Hotel in nearby Eugene and brought three 35 mm cameras with them from Los Angeles. On May 31, set construction began with the materials, and regular train service in Cottage Grove ceased until the end of production.^[6] One third of the film's budget was spent in Cottage Grove, and 1,500 locals were hired.^[7]

No telling how long these brands of itesm have been sold in this store.