John Fetterman may look like a James Bond baddie but he could be the saviour of a run-down steel town, reports Ed Pilkington.
It’s an older article, but Fetterman was featured this weekend on ‘Sunday Morning.’ Emphasis mine.
Diesel Civil Trust
An abandoned bunker in Point Bonita, California (photograph via)
Point Bonita today is part of the largest urban national park in the United States, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is located 6 miles northwest of Sausalito. In the area you can find a lighthouse, which was the last manned lighthouse on the California coast. You can also find many abandoned buildings (most of them military), one of them is this bunker.
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is struggling to save his city from fiscal calamity. Unemployment is at a record 28% and rising, while home prices have plunged 39% since 2007. The 66-year-old Bing, a former NBA all-star with the Detroit Pistons who took office 10 months ago, faces a $300 million budget deficit—and few ways to make up the difference.
DETROIT — Nobody can say for sure how an old dump truck ended up on the fourth floor of the abandoned Packard auto plant on East Grand Boulevard. But there’s no doubt about how it got back down.
continuum: I cannot recommend this article and photographs enough.
Title: Living the Dream. Location: Detroit Public Schools Book Depository/ Roosevelt Park Warehouse. Read the story of what happened here and here. (via sweet juniper)
100 Abandoned Houses: A series of 100 abandoned houses in Detroit, Michigan. Once a city of almost 2 million citizens, Detroit has since lost over half its population over the last 60 years (via laserlemon)
No Lifeguard On Duty series by J Bennett Fitts…
Swimming pools are signs of spiritual optimism, economic prosperity and the hedonistic good life, so the image of a pool dried up and cracked or half full of dirty water becomes a symbol of disappointed hopes and dreams. A sign on the wall by a pool that was filled in with grassy sod says, ”No lifeguard on duty,” which is funny at first, and then starts to sound like an ominous judgment about modern American life. (via)
Abandoned places of the world. There is something beautiful, yet haunting, about urban decay.
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