Monthly Archives: September 2014
It all falls down
Whatever used to be there is now just a pile of bricks. I know this isn’t how it works, but I had the impression that those bricks just all let go, at the same time.
St. Paul, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
PS. So, I decided to look at a map of St. Paul, Nebraska. And while I was looking at the map, I decided to take myself on a little street-view tour, where I saw this image from April 2012. See how the building’s gone, but the pile of bricks isn’t even there? Now I think maybe the bricks are slowly returning to the site and will reassemble themselves into that building….
For safekeeping
Someone uses this old building, which is right there on Main Street*, as storage for all the really important things. Like those hub caps glinting in the afternoon sun, quite a few plastic buckets, a three-legged stool that seems very unstable, and a tractor.
Lebanon, Nebraska
photographed 8.31.2014
*OK. So it’s not really called Main Street. But it is the main street.
At least there’s a place to sit
This place was a treasure of randomness. That tree growing in what used to be (before the roof fell apart) indoors. The upended sofa. The tires. The phone on the wall (which maybe has to direct connection with the phone booth, which is just across the street?). And that chair, providing both a place to sit and a measure of security with its placement in front of the door.
And, the best part? There’s even more that I couldn’t get into the shot! Perhaps a subsequent post will take care of that. You just never know…
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.31.2014
The last phone booth
I thought I’d found the last phone booth! But it turned out to be (at best) the next-to-the-last phone booth, because there was one just like this in the very next town.
Both phones had dial tones (if you are old enough to even know what that means), but I don’t know where the quarters went.
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.31.2014
(Also, because I feel the need to be honest here on the blog, I did hang the receiver up the right way after I checked for a dial tone. It seemed like the right thing to do.)
Window shopping, #1
Well, to be fair, in addition to peering through the windows of empty buildings, I also look at regular window displays.
If you can call this one “regular.”
Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
One Day | One Image 