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jjmaccrimmon ([personal profile] jjmaccrimmon) wrote2010-08-29 10:42 am

Abandoned places - Country Store

This country store/attached home is a throw back to the days before WalMart gobbled up the local mom & pop stores. We found it last year and have since gotten a line on the property owner. This place is a time machine.




This was a guerilla shoot (in and out in about 15 minutes) because we believe the site was completely abandoned. We've subsequently learned the owners are elderly and live down the road a ways. The site is NOT posted so we slipped in and out quickly. For that reason and to protect it, I'm not showing any views of the front of the building. It sits on a very active street corner and is watched.


Outside view




Initial point of entry
























Looking into the shop from the residential area.





At this point, we started drawing more attention than I felt was healthy so we quickly departed.

Tells a story

[identity profile] timelight.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
As usual, you are telling a story of hanging onto life, and gradually giving in. Doncha love the unfolding "reveals" the more you study one of these "vacant property" photos? I am so addicted to making and viewing them. Is there any market for them yet?

Re: Tells a story

[identity profile] jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I love letting the site tell the story itself. The whole idea is to make the viewer feel like they are walking into the situation and scene for themself. Sometimes the perspective and the shadows say more than I ever could.

Sadly, the biggest market I found was in Los Angeles before the crash. I need to print up another batch and either build another gallery show or a book.

[identity profile] ryokara.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like something out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ^_^

[identity profile] martinhesselius.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)

I like!