It’s not that I’m opposed to new construction, however, I think it’s a shame to allow beautiful buildings of the past fall into ruin. The architecture of the period should be preserved for historical reasons. Old movie theaters are especially full of details, the art of which has gone by the wayside. Some of the carvings and gilding are so beautiful.
Thursday’s Top Ten features some of these old abandoned treasures:
Pensacola Florida
New Orleans Louisiana
Detroit Michigan-Looks like the whole street is abandoned
Boston Massachusetts
Paducah Kentucky
Maclean Texas
Cincinnati Ohio
Bucyrus Ohio
Bakersfield California
Odessa Texas
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Holy Last Picture Show, Batman!
It’s so sad to see what’s happening to these beautiful old buildings. Meanwhile, hideous, character-free megaplexes surrounded by 100s of acres of parking lots keep getting built.
On the upside, one of the half-dozen abandoned old theatres in my town has been turned into an art house cinema.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment. I concur completely and am horrified by what gets torn down. Happy to report that a private group of volunteers has painstakingly restored a real movie palace in Jersey City, NJ. It is magnificent.
You should take a tour of Detroit sometime. Even many of the old factories were beautiful works of art. So much beauty has turned to emptiness and rubble with a good 10,000 or more buildings scheduled to be torn down.
You’ll want to slit your wrists. Every time I’m there, that’s what I feel like doing.
I’ve heard Detroit is in horrible shape. Sometimes as a real estate broker, I would received photos of houses in Detroit that were for sale for almost nothing, The idea was to get East Coast investors interested I guess.
Do you think most of the decline was due to the big factories and industries closing their plants there?
I could probably buy a couple of city blocks of Detroit real estate with nothing but the cash in my bank account.
The place has been declining since -ah- at least the late 60’s. (Half the population has moved away since then.) A lot the decline was due to “White Flight” out to the Burbs in that era, robbing the city of the tax base and creating a feedback loop of worsening conditions.
But yeah, the auto industry’s decades of inadequacy allowed foreign competition to take over and the decision to migrate out of Michigan in search of “relocation bribes” just blew the place apart. I try to avoid the place because it’s so depressing (not to mention dangerous). But Detroit is my local American TV feed, so I still see most of the “good news”.
And I’ve got to fess up, a lot of my fellow Canucks wound up with those former Michigan jobs too. Some still have them, but not nearly as many as they once did.