Reimagining Centralia: What Might Have Been
AI helps visualize a Centralia that never had a mine fire..
blight
Big empty Lots
The slow closing of Big Lots is a reminder of how things felt when we had a mall.. And how that closed, too.
Towns that dread sundown, tranq edition
Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
Post apocalyptic mall retail: The revenge of main street
For those born in the 1980s and beyond, we don’t know much of the amazing main streets that once existed. We see boarded up dilapidated evidence that it was there.. But we only new malls. People pondered if malls would kill main street. They did. Now main street got its revenge.. malls are dying too. Sadly it’s too far gone for main street to even think about a comeback, at least in most places.
Guntown goes green: Girardville through history, and the blight of modern times
The history of Girardville is beautiful. Modern times may have blighted a town, but pride is deep.
Drive in 2021 Episode 3: The Laurel Drive-In: THE RISE AND FALL ON ROUTE 309
THE RISE AND FALL ON ROUTE 309
DRIVE-IN 2021 EPISODE 1: The Natalie Drive In
The Natalie Drive In: From fame to profane and now a remnant tucked in the woods
Trinity closes: The tiny school that couldn’t North of the Mountain
In the same exact pattern and fashion. Rumor and gossip followed by an official announcement of a “study,” then public meetings and parental outcries.. and then silence before the May day deed is done. The closing of another Catholic school…
And now the ‘blue and gold’ are gone for good.
Own the past.. call the future
A Facebook ad of a an old phone booth caught our eye tonight.. It’s being sold by a user in Ashland, and it’s the real deal.
….we are tempted to buy!
Vacant buildings and what to do about them
These are the big three.. but they don’t end there.. There are countless properties like these..
So what do we do?
Where do we go from here?
Are these eyesores just going to stay where they are? Remain as they were..? relics of a time gone, and no changes coming to change then, reestablish them, or raze them?