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[09 Apr 2009|11:56am] |
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Hello again, I'm still home sick so here's another Rundown Town photodump!
This time we'll visit Grafton, WV, a formerly booming railroad town.. now a hometowny little place looking for it's niche.
Grafton's hotel was an important railroad stop.. the lobby faced the tracks. It's been abandoned for many years but is being semi-protected and is theoretically "mothballed," so isn't falling into further decay, hopefully. The neighboring train station has been converted into a very nice museum.
( lots more behind the cut! )
Thanks and enjoy!
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| Long time, no post. |
[07 Apr 2009|08:16pm] |
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Hello everyone.
It's probably been years since I've posted here... but this week I'm home sick with a horrible cough and thought maybe I'd share some photos with communities that still seemed to be semi-active. Over the last year I've had a great time exploring a lot of small towns in my surrounding area. I thought you might like to see pictures from some of my adventures. I can break it up into chunks by town.. in fact.. I think I will. So if you like this I'll post a lot more!
The Masonic Temple in Fairmont, WV stands tall but abandoned.
( more behind the cut! )
Thanks, if you liked it, I have lots more sets of lots more towns!
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[02 Feb 2009|12:15am] |
outside my friends house
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[21 May 2008|09:04am] |
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old school in a small town in kansas
(a few more on flickr, upon clicking image)
it is clear this was once a comfortable self-contained village, now a few houses (occupied) scattered on a few shady streets, with weedy sidewalks along with sandy roads. it reminded me of my childhood in the south. the main street, with garage, old store, hardware (now down) and community building. the bank cattycornered. all abandoned and decrepit (the garage has received a new life, however, and the community building is still used for town meetings). we were told these things by two local men, who drove up on tractors to check us out. the oldest stated there were once THREE groceries, and pointed to their places. across a tidy park, the school, abandoned, is wide open for respectful observation. a white dog with a red tumor in its eye might join your tour. there is not a spot of graffiti in this town, on the buildings. i do not want to say its name here, for protection of the place.
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[24 Apr 2008|08:57pm] |
hi! here the street pictograms collected from all world are placed ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) pictogramms
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[03 Apr 2008|12:14pm] |
decrepit house in nortonville kansas
jamcam + photoshop
(a couple more on flickr, upon clicking the image, if you like)
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[01 Apr 2008|12:31pm] |
nortonville KS : march 2008
(click image for more on flickr, if you like)
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[18 Jan 2008|05:14am] |
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Superior Dairy ice cream shop, Hanford, California
not exactly run down, but certainly quaint
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[28 Oct 2007|09:38am] |
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the old school : matfield green, kansas
image made with film and a Valiant camera (diana clone)
commentary provided by two little grammies in lawn chairs next door
and a loudly barking dog
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[21 Jun 2007|04:47pm] |
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[01 Apr 2007|08:01am] |
fire department : cedar springs kansas
a few toycam images from a recent trip to "ghost towns" on the kansas prairie. more on flickr upon clicking the image.
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[23 Mar 2007|12:09pm] |
one day this week i decided to take a day trip to the prairie, to find the "ghost towns" of chase county, kansas. i would not really call them ghost towns, as a few people seem to live in each one. but most of the structures have been abandoned and left for nature, after the last great flood of 1998. one longs to go in and give the places new life. the towns were so sweet and quiet and somewhat mysterious. recently, many places have lost that quality of mystery for me and it was exciting to find it again.
the full set of images are here.
more information about chase county
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| Arcola and Carpenter Wyoming |
[24 Feb 2007|02:04am] |
Greetings!
I haven’t posted here in quite a while, mostly due to other side projects. However I thought I’d share some photos with you from an article I’m collaborating on for the debut issue of “Curiosity. Magazine” (http://www.curiosity-magazine.com).
The article is about the now non-existent Burlington - Cheyenne Rail Line from Sterling, Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Numerous towns were founded and fully reliant on the rail until service was discontinued and the tracks removed in the early 1970’s. Since then, most of the towns - some over a century old - have dwindled in population and slowly fallen into ruin. These photos are from a scouting trip to two of the end towns in the line, Arcola and Carpenter Wyoming. The former of the towns has nearly blinked out of existence, and the latter has a current population of less than 100.
The following is rather image intensive, as there are around 3.5 megs of photos.
( Read more... )
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| 'Allo! |
[23 Feb 2007|11:37pm] |
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Hi everyone. I'm definitely new to this site, but I'm so happy I've found it. My town seems to be a posterchild of this place. Not only does it have a multitude of abandoned homes (and previous businesses), but it also used to have a hosery mill (which is now in utter disrepair, and has vines growing on both sides of the glass-paned worker entrance doors).
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