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    Re: Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, Plus

    Quote Originally Posted by Merg Ross View Post
    1939 WPA school, Claunch, New Mexico

    4x5 Pan-X, 150 Symmar, D-76, 1968
    Great photo of course, but what's interesting to me is how derelict it was after just 29 years. Now it's 80. Wonder also what's left.

    I'm at the magic age where these numbers keep reminding me 50 years makes a huge difference. We see cars for sale that we wouldn't have walked across the street to look at . . . in 1968. All that water's under the bridge now. We laugh and call the rusty hulks "river bottom cars" and people want crazy prices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corran View Post
    Indeed. On a related note, the new director also put all of our trophies in lock-up storage. A friend of mine and I broke in and stole our biggest trophy, from when we won top prize at a regional competition. The trophy was 6 feet high, so we disassembled the whole thing and took it out in pieces in our backpacks over several trips. I still have it .
    LOL. Who knew you lived on the wild side. Nice image as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Galli View Post
    Great photo of course, but what's interesting to me is how derelict it was after just 29 years. Now it's 80. Wonder also what's left.

    I'm at the magic age where these numbers keep reminding me 50 years makes a huge difference. We see cars for sale that we wouldn't have walked across the street to look at . . . in 1968. All that water's under the bridge now. We laugh and call the rusty hulks "river bottom cars" and people want crazy prices.
    Thanks, Jim. I had the same thought, a very short life for that school. In fact, it had been abandoned a dozen or so years before I photographed it in 1968. The families of Claunch were mostly cattle ranchers, who moved on to more fertile lands in Texas. As to its present state, it appears from recent photos to look not that much different, albeit behind a barbed wire fence now.

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    Bedstead, Bodie, CA - 1971
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    Merg, I love that composition! Well done

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    East Colorado Plains. 8x10 contact print.

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    Ruins, Turbine House, Paradise Springs
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    “You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
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    Re: Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, Plus

    Although there are many lovely images here, this whole thread is in many ways depressing. There is so much waste in America. In other places many of these buildings would still be put to good use. But here we tend to shun the old for the new. Wasteful!

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