I suppose I should add my take on a recent e-mail that I received, which will be redacted to ensure the privacy of the other party. I had not thought of posting it on here, but it seems that it has now made its way to TechDirt! On September 12, I received the following e-mail [...]
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A Travel to the Mill
In some respect, I should have been out backpacking in the highlands of West Virginia or riding my bike through the horse farms of central Kentucky. Pretty and beautiful sights and features.
Instead, I chose to get dirty and photograph derelict abandonments in far-out locations for the sheer joy of seeing pretty and beautiful sights and features and to meet other like-minded individuals from other states and Canada. But who can not appreciate the stale air of an abandoned building as much as the scent of spring flowers in a park or food baking in an oven, or the visual connection to peeling paint and rusting machinery to stately old-growth Spruce trees and grazing animals?
The Waldo
The Waldo Hotel was one of West Virginia’s premier hotels. Located in downtown Clarksburg, the Beaux-Arts style, seven-story building was constructed from 1901 to 1904. After years of abandonment, the hotel is threatened with demolition.
Suburban Nightmare: To go urban
Oh, the love for suburban shopping paradise, a consumer mecca that drained so many downtowns of their vibrancy with their air-conditioned interiors, polished floors, water fountains and department stores all in one convenient, drivable location. Except for when they are dying, then it becomes ironic…
Blast from the past: Ewing, Virginia
Why I have not yet traveled the back roads of southwest Virginia is a mystery to me. While a modern four-lane highway meanders through the rolling farmlands of the Indian and Poor Creek valley, the old routes that occasionally split off offer a glimpse of a part of America that is being forgotten. An excellent [...]
Memorial Hall: Another one to fall?
Could the Memorial Hall in Ironton, Ohio be the next to fall after Springfield’s Memorial Hall fell in late 2010? That is the understanding, pending a structural analysis that is being conducted today. Memorial Hall, a memorial to Civil War veterans, was completed in the Iron City in 1892. It was gutted by fire in [...]
Coal Camps: Man, West Virginia
We have all been there. A ominous derelict is on the horizon and we are tempted to stop and explore, but because of external factors – children in the car, poor lighting, and so forth, we pass up the opportunity to check out the abandonment.
Coal Camps: Glen Rogers, West Virginia
Mother Nature wasn’t kind in some respects on the drive down into Wyoming County to visit Glen Rogers, West Virginia. After having explored Surveyor, West Virginia’s Trap Hill High School, noted in this earlier entry, I made the best of the wintry precipitation and climbed over several snow covered mountain passes and dived into the [...]
The Cincinnati Mall
When people speak about dying downtowns and the declining inner ring of suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio many raise their hands in sweeping motions, indicate the vast empty stretches of sidewalks null with pedestrians and the boarded up galleries, and speak of the good ol’ times of the 1950s and 1960s. “Downtown is dead.” “Crime is [...]
Musings in West Virginia: Southern Fringes
The finale in a five-part summer excursion includes a visit to several abandoned schools and the infamous Sweet Springs Resort!
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