Only 25 miles from downtown Chicago sits one of the most historically interesting cities of the rustbelt – Gary, Indiana. The city was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation. Here they planned to place their new plant, Gary Works. The city was named after Elbert Henry Gary – a lawyer, and the founding chairman of the United
Between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, business was booming for Lake Dolores as visitors flocked from all over to enjoy a vacation in the desert. The park offered numerous rides and attractions, including eight identical 150-foot sixty-degree-angle steel waterslides. To descend the slide, riders rode on small plastic “floaties” which skimmed 40 to 50 yards across the lagoon when they hit the water at the slide’s end.
The Interurban Bridge of Waterville, Ohio – a beautiful, historic multi-arch concrete bridge. The bridge was built in 1908 to join Lucas and Wood counties across the Maumee River. At the time of its construction, and for some time thereafter, the structure was the world’s largest earth-filled reinforced concrete bridge. During construction of the bridge, it was decided to rest
The old coast guard station on Whiskey Island was built between 1938 – 1940. The building is situated at the end of a 1,000-foot-long pier jutting out into Lake Erie. At the time of its construction, there were plans to build more stations in different areas along Lake Erie. However, when World War II started, resources were shifted, and no
The stadium had hosted over 1,500 football games for the high schools in Akron, as well as for Ohio High School Athletic Association playoff games. The Cleveland Browns had also used the stadium for 19 preseason games over the years.
Well, it has actually happened, and actually rather quickly. Euclid Square Mall is officially no more, and Amazon has moved in with one of their distribution centers.
In 1918, the company was on a steady rise to the top, and began construction of worker homes in Youngstown/Campbell, Ohio. The homes were built between 1918-1920, and became historically important as the first pre-fab concrete estate in the world.
Six years ago, I explored what was formerly Fanny’s Restaurant in Collinwood, OH. Loved by many local and beyond, Fanny’s offered some of the most memorable home-style meals to come from a small diner in the Cleveland area.
Whether or not you like the idea of war, it happens. It will continue to happen. As cool as it would be, it would most likely be impossible to have everyone in the world in agreement. There have been many brave people that have fought for our country, and died for something that they believed in and loved.
There’s something so interesting about how nature leaves it’s own unique visual impression on what we have built, and left behind. Time consumes our forgotten structures in incredible, beautifully intricate ways.