Vanishing America by Michael Eastman (17 Photos)

For some reason I see so much beauty and potential in those pictures.

Yeah, beauty and potential. F*ck that. I see titties in 13!!!

I feel the need for some "Le happy"

Oh come on Chive! i'm disturbed by the unoriginality!!
http://weburbanist.com/2010/07/14/textures-of-tim…

zombie apocalypse?

Unfortuantely this is how it goes. Years from now people will be looking at our modern buildings thinking the same thing

A panoramic pic of my home town in southern Ohio would get you just as many pics of abandoned movie theatres, restaurants, bars, churches… Kinda depressing to drive thru whats left of the place.

Is it wrong of me that the first thing I saw in #13 was the titties?

I drive through extreme SW Ohio and SE Indiana and see a lot of this. There is a strange beauty to it.

#11 mmmm Tripe

Some of this look like it may have been along old RT 66. when the federal highway system went through a lot of these old towns dryed up because there were no access to them. At the same time a lot of new towns sprung up and a lot of small town America grew. Some people call that progess, it's not a bad thing. I love those old movie theaters, if there were one in my home town, I would buy it and put that sucker back in business just to bring back some of the old times. I do love the nostalgia when I drive through some of these old towns, it remind me of the simple time my elders use to talk about.

P.S. I don't think this should be called "Vanishing America", This should be called Changing AMerica, or The Changing Planet, cause I've seen this sort of thing all over the world. Times do change, that is the way of things….embrace it.

the movie is called " Walmart – The High Cost of Low Price" rent it for the real reason

Yeah. This is the what happens when we import everything.

aw you fuckers are doing pop up ads now?? get fooked!!

This is stupid. This is not America vanishing. There are a ton of ways to represent that. These are just old buidings. Time. A hundred years from now they will say the same thing. Shit changes.

Does that say "Sex Captain" on the marquee in #7??

Does anyone else here "Freebird" while they look at these photos?

No dope smoking? Fuck that shit.

#9 is actually a small bar in memphis that is still open.

Yeah, things do change, and there is gain with the losses. But the loss of local and regional "flavor" to the endless strip malls of corporate chain stores so that a town in Texas looks exactly the same as a town in Ohio and the same as every town in between is regrettable. Generica may be convenient but to those who knew different it ain't better.

Great photos.

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#7 is the Fremont in San Luis Obispo, CA. A great place to see a movie.

Pffffffffffffft , who needs these crumbling old buildings when you can go anywhere in the country and get a nice homogenous mix of stores that you can get your groceries, furniture, yard supplies and a hair cut all under one roof.

#16 Lompoc, CA