Thursday, October 18, 2007

An abandoned gas station

 
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This used to be the closest gas station to our house...it is technically in Inverness. It changed owners a few years ago and it has been downhill ever since....The thing that surprised me is that it was also a little grocery/snack place and when it closed....the milk in the refrigerator was still there a year later.....Abandoned and smelly I'll bet!!
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15 comments:

  1. AndreaOctober 18, 2007 at 11:12 AM

    I would not want to be the one that has to clean that store out. It is sad for the owners that the business did not succeed. Guess they didn't want to cry over their spilled milk so they left it.

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  2. sonia a. mascaroOctober 18, 2007 at 2:16 PM

    Beautiful photo, Neva! I like this lonely atmosphere!

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  3. smilnsighOctober 18, 2007 at 2:29 PM

    Question... How do you know the milk was still in the 'frig? ,-)

    Mari-Nanci
    Photos-City-Mine

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  4. dotOctober 18, 2007 at 5:16 PM

    Maybe they were selling something they shouldn't have been selling and got raided. You could write a novel around why the milk was still there. lol

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  5. TomOctober 18, 2007 at 5:24 PM

    Next time it is open 'DON'T BUY THE YOGHURT'
    It's sad to see a business fail.

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  6. AshOctober 18, 2007 at 9:08 PM

    Nice shot!

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  7. JulesOctober 19, 2007 at 12:15 AM

    This is very sad - I hate to see businesses shut down as behind the closed sign would be a lot of heart-ache and broken dreams

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  8. LynetteOctober 19, 2007 at 2:52 AM

    There's something way too poignant about the photo which the story of the abandoned milk completely erases. People are something else, aren't they?

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  9. quintarantinoOctober 19, 2007 at 8:18 AM

    Milk still there a year later? Are they crazy? By the way, if that happens with milk, check the "pumps"... maybe some gas in there...

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  10. Daniel J SantosOctober 19, 2007 at 8:28 AM

    nice one.

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  11. MarieOctober 19, 2007 at 9:17 AM

    It makes me think of the ghost cities we can see in westerns.

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  12. NevaOctober 19, 2007 at 9:21 AM

    You can see the milk (still 2 years later) in the cases...for the first year there were small lights on inside the frig cases.....it was as if he packed up in the night and took off without properly closing down anything....someone(EPA?) eventually covered the gas pumps because maybe there was gas still in them....and then someone came and put up plywood on SOME of the doors and windows....very sad...I drive by it a few times a week and wonder what they will ultimately do with that corner....

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  13. GMGOctober 19, 2007 at 10:07 AM

    And no one takes care of it?... :(
    Love the Mondrian! You're definitely a girl with very good taste! I still have one of these posters from the last Mondrian exhibition at the MOMA; many years ago...
    Have a great weekend.
    Gil

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  14. Hyderabad Daily PhotoOctober 19, 2007 at 5:50 PM

    It is very strange that they left it there so long.

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  15. OsweganOctober 19, 2007 at 8:10 PM

    Like it.

    You should go back and do a photo essay.

    ~Oswegan

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