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Better times were but a memory
Scenes like this always get the attention of my photographic eye (you know that already, right?). There are so many stories here, and I can’t think that any of them had a very happy ending. The hand truck on the left side strikes me as the saddest part of this scene, but there are many things that are in second place.
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
photographed 9.1.2020
House of Wonder
In answer to your questions:
- No, I did not visit Tinnelli’s House of Wonder.
- And, yes, there IS an apostrophe missing from the sign.
But I think we all can agree that the sign added a bit of visual interest to this abandoned building.
Bosler, Wyoming
photographed 8.27.2020
Round/House
This trip was not intended to be a road trip, but that’s how it turned out. And then that’s how we happened to be in Hugo, which as it turns out is the home to only surviving brick roundhouse in all of Colorado. The roundhouse is so important that it has its own website.
Hugo, Colorado
photographed 8.26.2020
Weed as Barrier
That weed may have thought its presence across a potential walking route was enough to keep itinerant photographers at bay.
That weed was wrong.
Big Spring, Texas
photographed 8.2.2020
Hospitalization
This hospital closed for good in 2001. According to this article, at the time it closed, the hospital was the second-largest employer in town, with about 120 employees. The town itself had, at the time, about 2,200 residents, so the loss of that many jobs must have damaged the town’s economy in ways that are still being felt nearly twenty years later.
And, all these years later, there is still some stuff lying around. At this point, I guess it’s safe to assume it’ll just be here forever.
Hale Center, Texas
photographed 6.28.2020
