Picture Show: No Lifeguard on Duty

awesome

cool thank you

this is not awesome

20,000 miles and he only had 4 states in there and majority were California and Florida.  Cool pictures, but with all that distance there is no variation.

I have a suggestion that may be of interest to anyone who likes Ghost Towns.  There was a book that was published a few years ago called “Abandoned America,” that is a compilation of photography of abandoned farms and cities in rural America by Steve Gottlieb.  Below each picture is a passage of Steve Gottlieb’s thoughts of each scene.  It is a reminiscing of what had been there once upon a time, the lifestyle and the people who had lived there.  He is quite creative.  He gives you the feeling that you are there but experiencing the ghosts that still inhibit these abandoned farms and towns.  On the front cover of the book is an old rusted out car that is left in a big pasture area.  There also was a movie recently that came out by Walt Disney called “Cars.”  It is in Pixar.  It has these animated talking cars like they are people that get off Route 66 to this abandoned town.  You can now get this movie on DVD.  It is good entertainment for both children and adults.

The Pictures are look like very beautiful……Mind Blowing Pictures……Ka—-FTP Server

Hi:The abandoned pools represent the changing economy through the years. The hopes and dreams of those who lived there, dried up, like the owners. Sad.

not beautiful. but pics like this need to be displayed.awesome. or maybe not.

Man, I don’t know what it is about them, but empty or unused-to-the-point-of-filth pools freak me out a little.

I’m gonna go buy one of those motels for a vaca home

I drove by the one in Victorville a few times, used to live there. Amazing photos.

Pretty interesting work. I am a geography teacher and we spent a bit of time during the year examining urban geography and urban decay within many cities, but this is a really different way to look at the same type of phenomena. Well done.

I have thought about this often, so it’s great to see that someone else was too!  It is SO true!  There are so many vacant motels that are falling apart, taking up space and leaving a generation behind. We need to figure out a way to do something with these structures and the land that they occupy.  Leaving them to rot away hurts us and our environment.  Beautiful pictures!

Yeah, I loved this series. This is how the American family used to travel; then came the superhighway and air travel. Vacation destinations became localized to mega-resorts owned by large companies capable of their construction–no more family owned motels. 

I love the Inland Empire one. It reminds me of the abandonned swimming pool across the street from the house where I grew up. It was in the parking lot of an elementary school and had a little pink building next to it that presumably once contained the changing rooms and showers. As long as I can remember, the pool itself was filled in with cement. Not quite as nice as the putting green in the Inland Empire motel. I remember thinking it had been condemned because someone died while swimming there, which in retrospect is pretty silly.  I also remember wanting to buy the place and renovate the changing rooms into a funky house.Funny the memories an unrelated picture can bring back.

Awesome. Have some pictures also from motels from Rio de Janeiro, but full of life, most of them near Favelas. Again,  Amazing photos, congratulations.

Great body of work. I appreciate the faded nostalgia of these photos and hope that we could learn for the future from the decay of our past