These are from around Birmingham, Alabama.
More Such Shots Can Be Found At This Link
This is Birmingham, the one in Alabama not England, “The Magic City”, county seat of Jefferson County. Population just over 200,000, home of a big cast-iron statue of a half naked Roman god, a humongous and growing medical center, and me. I carry a camera. Dum De Dum Dum
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Natural B'ham
When most people think “city” they don’t think nature, however there is an abundance of it to be found if you looks.
More Such Shots Can Be Found At This Link
More Such Shots Can Be Found At This Link
Dragons Are
Dragons are ghosts
Ghosts are dreams
Dreams are desires
Desires are wishes
Wishes are prayers
Prayers are spells
Spells are thoughts
Thoughts make souls
Souls are eggs
Eggs that birth dragons
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Back To School
For the Birmingham School System school starts up again the 8th of August.
For that here are some shots of the newly refurbished Phillips Academy (formerly Phillips High School, formerly Birmingham High School), which will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in just 11 years.
As would be expected, in a building that old, while it has been updated and buffed up, there are still some parts quite a bit less so.
As you can see in the first picture the rooms are bright and ready for students, I only wish the classrooms had been so cheery when I was going to grade school! Back in those long lost days it was more Too Kill a Mocking Bird meets the Shawshank Redemption.
Where water and power and the other needs are a building almost a city block in size are taken care of.
However even this part has been repaired and cleaned up, leaving some areas below the below still like they were close to the start of the structure.
However even this part has been repaired and cleaned up, leaving some areas below the below still like they were close to the start of the structures beginnings.
For more pictures from this building go to:
Phillips Academy
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy, formerly Phillips High School, formerly Birmingham High School, was built in 1922 and in the years after that has been added to and restored a few times now a K – 8 school it's where I work.
I will be coming back to this a lot.
But just a look at the outside, the mural at the entrance that was painted by the WPA and recently restored, and two brief looks at one room.
PAN SHOT!
The classrooms did NOT look this good when I was a kid.
I will be coming back to this a lot.
But just a look at the outside, the mural at the entrance that was painted by the WPA and recently restored, and two brief looks at one room.
PAN SHOT!
The classrooms did NOT look this good when I was a kid.
Lost Streets
Urban areas, and far out in the country aren’t the only places where you can find the old or odd abandoned, neglected or little seen places by the public area.
You can also found them in the suburbs.
High-end ritzy, or formerly rich neighborhoods that have been around for a long time, at least the early 20s, but better if around the turn of the last century, are best for it because they often have these little narrow twisty alleys behind the main houses serve as a place place for servants quarters, carriage houses, personal warehouses (ware-shacks?) or sometimes I you can't tell what, that eventually became garages, little out of the way apartments, and some things that you will still have a hard time figuring out what are, or ever were.
These are a few shots I've taken wandering up and down some of the lost streets, most are found East of the South Side and in the steep hills around Clairmont Avenue.
Looking for an unusual and interesting place for a nice long walk? (and I mean as soon as the temp gets below the melting point of linoleum and the air turns back from an isotope of oxygen to the regular brand) hunt up one of these winding roads.
At the bottom is a link to find more, as well as larger images of these and details about where they are and other things.
And yes that IS an English cab set aside on a back street of Birmingham, Alabama.
Perdido Streets
You can also found them in the suburbs.
High-end ritzy, or formerly rich neighborhoods that have been around for a long time, at least the early 20s, but better if around the turn of the last century, are best for it because they often have these little narrow twisty alleys behind the main houses serve as a place place for servants quarters, carriage houses, personal warehouses (ware-shacks?) or sometimes I you can't tell what, that eventually became garages, little out of the way apartments, and some things that you will still have a hard time figuring out what are, or ever were.
These are a few shots I've taken wandering up and down some of the lost streets, most are found East of the South Side and in the steep hills around Clairmont Avenue.
Looking for an unusual and interesting place for a nice long walk? (and I mean as soon as the temp gets below the melting point of linoleum and the air turns back from an isotope of oxygen to the regular brand) hunt up one of these winding roads.
At the bottom is a link to find more, as well as larger images of these and details about where they are and other things.
And yes that IS an English cab set aside on a back street of Birmingham, Alabama.
Perdido Streets
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