I honestly had the intention of just taking sad pictures of New Orleans for this blog. Most of the city is, in fact, disgustingly derelict. However, my break revolved less around homework than it could have and I failed at my true intention. I did snap a picture of this one scary building downtown I saw on our way to rent a Uhaul (still had stuff in NO). This is on a particular stretch called Tulane Avenue that used to be a very popular business street 40 or so years ago. Now there are businesses like auto sales, bail bonds, bars and shady hotels. Who knows what this building used to be, but it is nothing now. Some poor fool is building mixed-use condos to try to "revive" Tulane Ave. Good luck with that!
The second picture is of an abandoned Burger King in my parents' neighborhood. I have no idea what would cause a chain like BK to go out of business in a busy neighborhood, but this one did somehow. Now it is boarded up and highly unsightly. It's been shut down for so long it has lost all of its BK touches and just looks like some unrecognizable fast food joint. I imagine there is moldy hamburger meat in there somewhere.
These pictures are of some nasty graves in my old neighborhood church's cemetery. Now we have graves in there dating back to 1739, but for the love of god, has no one heard of restoration? Some of the above ground tombs (a swampy necessity since if we dig too far we hit water) look near collapse. I fear looking at them for too long because I feel like a skeleton will fall out. The graves of the plantation elite that are over 100 years old look great. But for the rest of us buried under bricks instead of marble, the elements have been unkind. Until someone restores these graves to look half-decent, I will consider them a part of the derelict landscape.
I honestly had the intention of just taking sad pictures of New Orleans for this blog. Most of the city is, in fact, disgustingly derelict. However, my break revolved less around homework than it could have and I failed at my true intention. I did snap a picture of this one scary building downtown I saw on our way to rent a Uhaul (still had stuff in NO). This is on a particular stretch called Tulane Avenue that used to be a very popular business street 40 or so years ago. Now there are businesses like auto sales, bail bonds, bars and shady hotels. Who knows what this building used to be, but it is nothing now. Some poor fool is building mixed-use condos to try to "revive" Tulane Ave. Good luck with that!
The second picture is of an abandoned Burger King in my parents' neighborhood. I have no idea what would cause a chain like BK to go out of business in a busy neighborhood, but this one did somehow. Now it is boarded up and highly unsightly. It's been shut down for so long it has lost all of its BK touches and just looks like some unrecognizable fast food joint. I imagine there is moldy hamburger meat in there somewhere.
These pictures are of some nasty graves in my old neighborhood church's cemetery. Now we have graves in there dating back to 1739, but for the love of god, has no one heard of restoration? Some of the above ground tombs (a swampy necessity since if we dig too far we hit water) look near collapse. I fear looking at them for too long because I feel like a skeleton will fall out. The graves of the plantation elite that are over 100 years old look great. But for the rest of us buried under bricks instead of marble, the elements have been unkind. Until someone restores these graves to look half-decent, I will consider them a part of the derelict landscape.
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Thanks for posting, even though not for a specific assignment.
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