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Guna Andersone

9 Years Ago

Decay Of Civilization- Themed Image Thread

For this year’s vacation we had a theme-the decay of Soviet Latvia. We have spent hours in the car visiting the most remote places in search for old abonded houses, collective farms and Soviet military objects. Hundreds of pictures, 2000 km through small countryside and forest roads. There was also moment, we should return, because we did not trust the road- I was staying till me knees in mud and water. I still should post process these images and write stories. These two images are from Riga- Sampeteris. My grandmother lived in this very quiet place and I have spent many days on these streets and my family still lives here. I remember the shop located in this house. It was an empty glass bottle collection point. For a glass bottle you can get 1 or 2 kopecks, the ice-cream in that time (60s-70s) cost 20 kopecks. So I was a keen bottle collector to earn my ice-cream. And not only me, my sister and later her sons did the same. Actually, all children who grow up there did it. In the beginning of 90s the shop was closed and abounded, but still there are some traces of its past.

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Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

that looked like black eagles car... there is a guy that lives near me, he has an old 70's car, covered in that stuff. when he gets out he's dressed as a shaman with dream catchers and such. he has a bike that has a similar look.


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Lynn Palmer

9 Years Ago

Overgrown buildings and rusting pickup truck on a mechanics lifts are all that's left of an abandoned gas station.

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Martin Capek

9 Years Ago

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Jim Sauchyn

9 Years Ago

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Jeffery Johnson

9 Years Ago

Old rustic house on edge of Fly Road
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Old abandoned house Fox Branch Road
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Guna Andersone

9 Years Ago

thank you all, for so great pictures

 

Paul Ward

9 Years Ago

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Tamara Lee Madden

9 Years Ago

An old theater:
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Jim Taylor

9 Years Ago

Guna, enjoyed your thoughts. I collected soft drink bottles as a kid also. Before aluminum cans. Great source of spending money at that time for a cash in deposit of a penny or two.

The painting was inspired by a John Stewart song called Willard which fits this theme.

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Kevin Callahan

9 Years Ago

Hey Glenn, ha, ha:
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Matthias Hauser

9 Years Ago

Pile of junk cars on a wrecking yard

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Yo Pedro

9 Years Ago

A series of images from a defunct mining camp.

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Alexandra Till

9 Years Ago


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Valerie Reeves

9 Years Ago

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Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

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David Letts

9 Years Ago

Decaying building located in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Martin Davey

9 Years Ago

Old Saturn V Rocket In Desert - digital painting
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Guna, thanks for your idea and personal story.

This is the remains of I don't know what exactly, and is round. the block from our pristine/famous Opera House......it goes unnoticed........

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Lynn Palmer

9 Years Ago

Tabby concrete, was a readily available and inexpensive construction material used in coastal North Florida in the last century. The aggregate is composed entirely of small shells that are mixed with concrete resulting in a brittle material that weathers quickly. The following are two structures built by slaves on and near the Kingsley Plantation on Amelia Island in Florida just north of Jacksonville.

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Bradford Martin

9 Years Ago

These two are of the Anne Little School in Jacksonville which has been abandoned for over forty years.
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These 2 are of the abandoned Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key. It was used for boat racing and other watersport competitions.
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This is the old Universal Life Church in Merritt Island, Florida
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These 3 are of the Cocoa Beach Glass bank which the city ordered demolished. The owner committed suicide on the grounds shortly after being force to move out.
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Mary Ellen Anderson

9 Years Ago

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Lisa Kaiser

9 Years Ago

This has been an interesting thread. I love abandoned homesteads.

 

Guna Andersone

9 Years Ago

This part of the city is the old, archaic Riga, Latvia, littered with private houses and quaint parks. In 1941 these houses were nationalized by communists after the Soviet occupation. For almost 50 years there was done a little to maintain this unique architecture.

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Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

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Bob Galka

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Christie Morgans

9 Years Ago

Sometimes, when nature takes back, the decay can look nice :)

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Guna Andersone

9 Years Ago

One of many abounded old farmhouses in Latvia. After collapse of the Soviet Union and Latvia started painful process of economical and political reforms. After closing socialist collective farms, many people could not find any job in the countryside and left to the cities or abroad.

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