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Louisville, Kentucky

These are from the city where I lived with Dee Dee, who is still a good friend. I had been photographing in Louisville and the nearby areas in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky since December, 2005.

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An old carriage house on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky that has been converted to apartments. The brick building has been painted red and yellow and modern doors and windows installed in the old entrances. A stack of plastic patio chairs sits in front of the house.

 

The back door of an old carriage house on the alley behind Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky with garbage cans in the alley. The carriage house has apartments in it now. The brick building is painted light blue with white doors.

 

Peeling tar paper on the wall of an abandoned retail building in Louisville, Kentucky. The broken plaster and tar paper against the bricks forms an abstract shape.

 

Yummy's Dairy Bar is an ice cream stand in Clarksville, Indiana on a sunny winter day. Small town ice cram stand with an old fashioned sign shaped like an ice cream cone.

 

The Kosair Shrine Temple in Louisville, Kentucky. The awning over the main door is shaped like a shriner's fez. Old brick building with arched upper windows.

 

The back side of the ruins of the Charles Heigold house in Louisville, Kentucky. The upstairs balcony door hovers above the first floor entrance like a door to nowhere on this old brick fascade.

 

The abandoned Big Four Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville. Pictured from the Louisville side surrounded by construction debris from the planned waterfront park.

 

Murphy Elevator Company building, downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Old brick factory building with neon signs and gold lettered windows.

 

A blighted brick wall in an abandoned commercial building on Oak Street in Louisville, Kentucky with a hole in the brick wall. The wall shows the remnants of an old painted advertisement on the bricks.

 

A dilapidated brick wall in an abandoned commercial building on Oak Street in Louisville, Kentucky with a hole in the brick wall. The wall shows the remnants of an old painted advertisement on the bricks. An old drain pipe hangs on the wall beside the hole.

 

The front door of the Old Riverview Schoolhouse along Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The building is an abandoned wood-frame one room schoolhouse.

 

A wooden memorial cross leaned against a trailer along Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The cross commemorates Bill Calvert, who was killed in an auto accident there. The cross is decorated with silk flowers and is leaned against a trailer that was once a hotdog stand.

 

An abandoned hotdog stand on Bardstown Road in rural Bullitt County, Kentucky with a memorial cross leaning against the end of the trailer.

 

A bricked up window in an old nineteenth century warehouse building in Clarksville, Indiana. The brick building has been whitewashed, and the white paint is peeling off the bricks.

 

A bright red wall with an industrial caged light fixture with a broken light bulb on the murphy elevator company building in Louisville, Kentucky. A folded metal gate hangs from the wall under the light.

 

The front door of an abandoned brick bank building on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky. The door is an ornate federal style door with wrought-iron railing around the entranceway.

 

The back of two old mansions in Louisville that had been subdivided into small apartments. The landlord called them Garden Place Apartments.

 

A weathered wood barn door on a farm in Bullitt County, Kentucky.

 

Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting outside a KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. A protester holds a sign that says SCALDED ALIVE.

 

The sign for The Original Chuch of God on Clay Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

An abandoned whitewashed brick commercial building with garage door and a personnel door on Madison Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

An old carriage house on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky that has been converted to apartments. The brick building has been painted red and yellow and modern doors and windows installed in the old entrances.

 

Three old school buses in an abandoned building on Fourth Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

An old door with graffiti that says Stop Praying to the god of war. Anti-war protest sign on an old brick building in Louisville, Kentucky. A large round light fixture hangs over the door. This is the back door of the Third Street Cafe.

 

Yummy's Dairy Bar is an ice cream stand in Clarksville, Indiana on a sunny winter day. Small town ice cram stand with an old fashioned sign shaped like an ice cream cone.

 

The brick facade of the Charles Heigold house in Louisville, Kentucky is elegantly decorated with patriotic sculpture and text extolling the virtues of the pre-civil war United States and president James Buchanan. Buchanan is portrayed in a sculpture above the second floor balcony door.

 

The back side of the ruins of the Charles Heigold house in Louisville, Kentucky. The upstairs balcony door hovers above the first floor entrance like a door to nowhere on this old brick fascade.

 

The abandoned Big Four Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville. Pictured from the Louisville side surrounded by construction debris from the planned waterfront park.

 

The weathered wood door of an abandoned shack with a collapsed roof in Bullitt County, Kentucky.

 

An abandoned bowling alley in the Louisville suburb of Shively, Kentucky. Fellowship Lanes bowling alley.

 

The side door in an old brick storefront building on Third Street in Louisville. The wall is covered in peeled paint that remains from an old advertisement painted on the brick wall.

 

An old teacher's chair in front of a storage shed behind an abandoned one room schoolhouse on Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. A smiley happy face has been spray painted on the front of the building by a graffiti artist.

 

An abandoned garage on Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky that housed a sign company. The signs on the building feature the Tasmanian Devil, Tweety Bird, and Yosemite Sam from the Warner Brothers Cartoons. The name of the company was Seldom Work Signs.

 

A wooden memorial cross leaned against a trailer along Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The cross commemorates Bill Calvert, who was killed in an auto accident there. Another sign is leaned against the trailer next to the cross that says in hand-painted letters: This is danger, slow bad curve, stop the death! fix this curve.

 

A pair of old wooden doors on a brick factory building at the Murphy Elevator Company in Louisville, Kentucky. A light hangs above the doors and a metal gate is closed over them.

 

Two bricked up windows in an old warehouse building in Clarksville, Indiana. The brick building has been whitewashed and the paint has peeled from the bricks. The windows have an old arched design.

 

A crumbling brick and concrete loading dock with bricked up windows in an old nineteenth century warehouse building in Clarksville, Indiana.

 

The front door of the Parkland Masonic Temple in Louisville Kentucky. The building is an old brick church that has been painted an ugly grey.

 

Bright red stairs on the back of an old brick apartment house on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky. A shadow of a light fixture is cast on the bricks by the afternoon sun.

 

A sign that says I Love You on the front of an old brick church on Muhammed Ali Road in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The art studio of sculptor Ed Hamilton in an old federal style brick storefront building with an American flag hanging over the door on Shelby Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The front doors of Saint John Day Center, a homeless shelter in a former brick gothic style church in Louisville.

The door and window of an old carriage house on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky that has been converted to apartments. The brick carriage house has been painted red and the windows and door are painted yellow. The first florr window is barred. The old wood panel door has a decorative relief on the top panel.

 

Plaster peeling from a brick wall in an abandoned retail building in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The Kosair Shrine Temple in Louisville, Kentucky. The awning over the main door is shaped like a shriner's fez. Old brick building with arched upper windows.

 

An old door with graffiti that says Stop Praying to the god of war. Anti-war protest sign on an old brick building in Louisville, Kentucky. This is the back door of the Third Street Cafe.

 

The ruins of the Charles Heigold house in Louisville, Kentucky. The front fascade of the house is located along the Ohio River near downtown Louisville. The brick fascade is elegantly decorated with patriotic sculpture and text extolling the virtues of the pre-civil war United States and president James Buchanan. President Buchanan is portrayed in a sculpture above the second floor balcony door.

 

Alley between Third Street and Fourth Street in Louisville, Kentucky at sunset showing old carriage houses. The glow of the warm sunset reflects off the brick alleyway pavement that is broken by a puddle in the foreground.

 

The abandoned Big Four Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville. Pictured from the Louisville side surrounded by construction debris from the planned waterfront park.

 

An abandoned hillbilly shack in Bullitt County, Kentucky south of Louisville. The house is in an overgrown forest surrounded by trees. The roof has caved in and half the house is falling down.

 

An old teacher's chair in front of a storage shed behind an abandoned one room schoolhouse on Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. A smiley happy face has been spray painted on the front of the building by a graffiti artist.

 

Dekalb Corn sign on a barn in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The barn has a tin roof and the siding is made of roofing shingles.

 

An old metal restaurant chair behind an abandoned hotdog stand on Bardstown Road in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The hotdog stand is a white trailer surrounded by trees and tall weeds.

 

An old liquor store on Oak Street in Louisville on a rainy winter day.

 

Broken wondows in the side of the old Murphy Elevator Company factory in Louisville with a parking meter in front of the window.

 

A bricked up door in an old nineteenth century warehouse building in Clarksville, Indiana. The brick building has been whitewashed and the paint is peeling from the bricks.

 

The boarded up weathered wood doors on an old warehouse building in Clarksville, Indiana. The brick building is painted a blue gray and the paint is peeled from the bricks.

 

Parkland Masonic Temple in Louisville Kentucky. The building is an old brick church that has been painted an ugly grey.

 

The back of an old mansion on Third Street in Louisville that had been subdivided into apartments.

 

A payphone stands next to a door with four locks on it in the side of a brick building along Shelby Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

 

A sign that says I Love You next to a Gothic style window with iron bars on an old brick church on Muhammed Ali Road in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

The crooked door of an abandoned brick commercial building on Madison Street in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

A sign that says "No Standing or sitting outside St. John" on the doors of the Saint John Day Center homeless shelter in Louisville.

 

 

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