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February 21
The next time you go to El Paso, try to have enough time to visit Concordia Cemetery. The cemetery was founded in the 1850s and there are over 60,000 people buried on the 52 acre site, so it’ll take a while to see everything.
If you plan it right (I didn’t) you might even get to join in on a ghost tour.
Also, this might have happened to me. If you go to the cemetery’s webpage, and click around until you get to the Dia de Los Muertos tab, and you get completely engrossed in looking at the pictures, you will be really, really surprised when the trumpet-y music starts up. So be careful.
El Paso, Texas
photographed 5.2.2010
February 20
Unlike what I featured in yesterday’s post, sometimes “progress’ means that old buildings find new life as something else.
Here is housing, in the Mill District in Minneapolis, in a building that obviously began its life with a different function.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
photographed 4.25.2009
February 19
Well, this is sad.
In 2009, one of my friends and I took a trip to Las Vegas to photograph wedding chapels along the Strip. We did that, but we also shot plenty of photos of motels in the same area. And I suppose it’s a good thing we went when we did: many of the places we photographed have been since torn down, in the name – of course! – of progress.
The Yucca Motel is one of them. It was demolished in mid-2010. The sign was salvaged and now resides at the Las Vegas Neon Museum. As a matter of fact, the homepage of the museum’s website has a picture of this very same sign. I like my shot better. A lot better.
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 5.29.2009
February 18
Say you are on a trip. In Missouri. With no real destination other than generally getting from St. Louis to Kansas City. And say you happen to notice on the map (because you are like that, preferring actual, paper maps over a GPS) a town called Frankenstein.
Of course you have to go!
And say, on your way through Frankenstein, you notice a big church (Our Lady, Help of Christians, as it turns out) with a playground and a graveyard beside it. You have to stop.
And, because you saw the town on the map and the church in the town, you also saw this: a caretaker’s hut, built of brick to match the church, with a white door held closed by a board.
It was a great trip.
Frankenstein, Missouri
photographed 6.2006
February 17
Santa Fe shadows on the side of the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 8.5.2011
One Day | One Image 