Had big plans for yesterday, there's an old Art Deco building here in Louisville that looks on Google Street View like it's been abandoned and neglected for quite some time, was going to shoot it in the morning sun. Yesterday dawned dim and moist, kind of put a damper on my plans but it was too warm not to go shooting, just had to find somewhere well suited to a grey and dreary day. Finally it hit me, go shoot up the hood!
Does it get any more hood than a billboard saying "Trust Crooks"? Throw in a laundromat that had seen better days before I was born and you start to get a feel for the place.
God bless legal loan sharks. If it wasn't for them and their generous 1000% APR loans there'd be a lot more unemployed bankruptcy lawyers in this city.
The Great Wok is great no more. You could say hard times have come to the hood but that would imply there was a time when it was less hard and that's hard to imagine.
Not all the businesses have closed, some are still up and running but it's hard to tell which is which.
"You got that lean? Don't have to look far to see people struggling.
The housing options in the hood may take a little getting used to but sooner or later they'll grow on you.
Home is where the broken glass is. Should probably clarify that I am using 'hood' in the sense of 'my old neighborhood,' rather than the more colloquial 'place white people are afraid to go.' Now you should have a bit of a feel for the hood.
Just not a very accurate one. These last two photos are literally right around the corner from the broken windows and no trespassing signs place. This carefully curated impression of my old neighborhood was put together as demonstration of how 'news' media, propagandists, and people more generally use small truths to perpetuate larger untruths.
Corporate Trendy architecture at it's finest! So the next time someone's showing you 'how it is', just ask yourself what is it they ain't showing me? Until next time y'all, question everything.
My hood gets dismantled and any useable bits sold for scrap. I'd love to take pictures but may very well lose my camera.
I much prefer the overgrown place to those little corporate boxes
Ah, gotcha. Once meth and pills came calling in the 90s/00s, the rural area I grew up in wasn't too different, except they just took the useable bits and left a mess of the rest.
Me too, that house is likely over a hundred years old and well built, with some TLC it'll last another hundred.
Oof. That last picture almost makes an HOA full of tract homes look good in comparison. What insufferable asshat decided those were good designs to translate from paper to physical embodiment? Those don't say "home," they juxtapose imposing mass and smallness in a very uncomfortable way.
Almost. What do you call a group of Karens? A HOA. It's hard to beat that sort of nonsense but they gave it their best shot. Those were built to separate students from their student loan money as efficiently as possible, and that's just about all they're good for. I was having trouble putting into words the essence of their wrongness, but they are some impressively uncomfortable structures.
The road looks so smooth
The only places we have that looks like this here are estates
Beautiful photographs!
Looks can be deceiving, it's pothole season here.
I'm curious, what are these estates?
Thank you!
The road actually looks smooth and well kept
Interesting, you're the second person to comment on the quality of the road. Here we would probably not speak so highly of it but I can see how you might see it that way.
Such buildings are very beautiful, they are very well designed, and whenever there are dark clouds like this, the weather is very pleasant and makes me want to walk outside.
Cool buildings, fine architectural designs, stunning and skilful photography.
This building is really looking so beautiful and admirable