Since 1920

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Pancake Breakfast

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Schank Seed Company

© 2012 Michael Fiveson

A seed company that once was open and thriving has now gone to seed. In addition to the ‘Americana’ feel to this, I am struck by two things. First there is the curious spacing on the painted lettering. It appears they created space to allow the door full exposure, without the possibility of distraction from letters. But more striking are the white stains behind the windows which to my eye creates a very real ghost like effect. Scary as hell, me thinks.

Last Ride

© 2012 Michael Fiveson

A lone car sits on a forgotten track, lost in a tiny farming town in Colorado.

Silo

© 2012 Michael Fiveson

A neighboring town with a very large and closed silo. Love the well ventilated roof.

Gill, Colorado

My new blogging friend Carol and I recently found some images in a tiny town in Northern Colorado. Here is Carol’s stunning image of the exterior of what would have been a general store.

My contribution is a closer look at the front of this building revealing a colorful palette.

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Peeling Doors

© 2012 Michael Fiveson

The tiny Northern Colorado town of Gill may well have passed ‘sleepy’ and is now close to dead. There is a grain elevator, and scattered homes in various states of disrepair. This may have been a store front before surrendering to economics and time.

Man’s Ners

© 2012  Michael Fiveson

In rural Colorado you only use enough paint to obscure the old message. Here, an old cleaners has its sign changed into gibberish, but the paint savings was significant.

3 Haiku Wednesday-Desolation Street

© 2012  Michael Fiveson

 

You won’t hear children

not on desolation street

no place to play now

 

the old timers know

but are too tired to care

that their town has died

 

Just the bar still stands

weary souls and alcohol

how did this happen….

Two Windows

© 2012  Michael Fiveson

The side of a very old building reveals two barred windows that are similar but different. This building has been finished in stucco and has been painted a South Western color that you would find plentiful in New Mexico.