Can a Ghost Town/Toxic Dump Become a Park?

Views: 1499I discovered what looked like the remains of an abandoned town on google maps last week and had decided that I’d drive out towards Baytown and check it out. What I found turned out to be what must be the creepiest park in Texas. As it turns out, the area has a really funky history. It started out in 1891 as...

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A Hempstead Highway Ghost: Scales

May 18, 10 A Hempstead Highway Ghost: Scales

Posted by in AbandonedStructures, Art, Photography

Views: 330On my way home, I decided to stop at an abandoned industrial scale that looked interesting to me:   Front of Building Rear of Building Overgrowth Inside: “Scales Closed Forever! Thank You For 9 yrs. Joe, Rose“ A Nearby...

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The Ghosts of Hempstead Highway

Views: 1276Since I’m supposed to be off today, I only worked half a day. So, with a few hours to kill, I decided to take a drive down old Hempstead Highway. I noticed the highway has a lot of rundown buildings that looked like they were left over from the 70s and 80s and thought I’d check them out: At the Car Wash Car...

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The Ghost Town Downtown

Views: 613Did you know that there’s a ghost town just a few hundred feet from downtown Houston? Well, neither did I. Carolyn and I were out riding bikes today and we road near downtown and came across an area of old (as in, turn of the last century) abandoned buildings. Some of the structures were obviously built in the 20s...

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Galveston Graveyard

Views: 676Carolyn and I decided to go to on of the old cemeteries on Galveston. What follows are some pictures I took while we were there: - Carolyn sitting on a tombstone. - A close-up of grave moss Below are some pics I took of the gravyard… - This is a statue of Jesus and baby… with...

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The Miracle is That There Are No Miracles

Jan 18, 10 The Miracle is That There Are No Miracles

Posted by in Philosophy, Photography

Views: 4350 This is a little piece of an actual photo taken by Hubble and released to the public by NASA on Jan. 5th. Yah, that’s all “whatever” you say? What is SO COOL about this photo is that this is a photo of the dark part of the sky. If you look at your fingernail and take 1/10th of its size and use that...

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