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Beautiful, sunny days

Beautiful, warm weather, coupled with explorations of various historical and abandoned structures, always beats off the winter blues. In my trip to Parker Tobacco Company, I had also stopped at Vernon Manor in Cincinnati and Higginsport, Ohio School for additional photography.

Progress!

The Ro-Na Theater opened in 1949 in downtown Ironton, Ohio, and featured intricate murals of local history along with first-run movies before closing and becoming an auto parts store. It was abandoned in the 1980s and is now being restored.
Work began on removing the roof in mid-July 2009 in preparation for its replacement. A fundraising [...]

A trip through eastern Kentucky

There are days that I like to hit the open road and explore. I just wish my planning skills were somewhat better. Granted that I can navigate the back roads very well and I rarely get lost — relying on my Delorme atlases and forgoing modern GPS conveniences, and that I can drive the narrow [...]

Remants of my childhood

From the still-active AK Steel Ashland Works to cement companies, everything that I recalled or explored in the past that provided my original inspiration for this site are being demolished or restored. Granted that in the ten years that this site has been online, things are bound to change, but the speed and manner that it is being done is quite startling.

What’s even sadder is that these once industrial mammoths, that once employed thousands in the region, are not being replaced with anything of value. Strip malls replaced a coke plant near Portsmouth, Ohio. Vacant lots and junk yards replaced an iron foundry in Ironton, Ohio. And polluted, deserted lots replaced the world’s largest hot strip in Ashland, Kentucky.

Maybe one day, we can regain our status as an industrial powerhouse.