Melting house in Mendocino. I read today that it is scheduled for demolition, so I went and took a few pictures. I have wanted to for quite a while. Nobody has lived in it since 1950. It represents a long-gone era here. One of lumber mills and a town full of mill workers. Now replaced by wealthy tourists.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday
Melting house in Mendocino. I read today that it is scheduled for demolition, so I went and took a few pictures. I have wanted to for quite a while. Nobody has lived in it since 1950. It represents a long-gone era here. One of lumber mills and a town full of mill workers. Now replaced by wealthy tourists.
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What a great photo. It's a shame when old buildings have to be torn down. I wonder if there's any salvageable wood there.
did you notice that chimney is still standing - straight?
Did you hear the story on NPR about the Jewish neighborhood in Shanghi that is being torn down? Built in 1939 when Shanghi was letting in record numbers of Jews fleeing Europe. Such history is being lost.
As I travel, I pass by numerous old homes. I always wonder and sometimes day dream about the last family that lived there. When they moved, why no one ever took the place of the last inhabitant. Why no one picked up the junk. It wasn't always junk, was it?
Great photo.
Peace
Very sad. I love Mendocino.
Empty houses have a deep pathos. I've wandered around and through a few, feeling for a sense of the lives that passed within the walls. Long-abandoned gardens where a woman once tended her plants and small children once played are particularly poignant.
What kinds of tourists? Wow, that is sad. :(
I could see myself chained in protest to such a fine ruins. Damn, it's beautiful!
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