The fading and forgotten.

I'm working on putting together a series on some of the dead and dying rural areas around Missouri. My problem is time, I don't have enough of it.  I've always loved documentng the dead and dying areas of this city. I'm going to get back to that in the near future. I'm finding more than a few dead and dying places in my rural travels across the northern part of the state. I'm working on covering these as well.  I did find one place on the edge of the city that is about to become another suburban stuccoed McStrip mall.  I've been meaning to look around the property for years now. This past weekend I drove out there only to find that some of the buildings have been bulldozed. I snapped a few shots. I'll be going back this weekend and I'll write more on it then. For now, here's just a teaser of that place and a few  of the dead and dying areas I'll be covering later.

This place has been abandoned for a long long time, over a decade. It's as if the occupants left one day and forgot to come back. Forgot to take anything with them.

The roof and second floor is falling in. The house and outbuildings are filled with probably 100 grand in antiques. Or I should say, they were once filled with 100 grand in antique furniture. Not a single piece is worth a dime now. Vandals and time have exacted a heavy toll. Now it's just crumbling, rotting, someones once elegant surroundings gone to seed. I'll get more up tomorrow.

The number of towns dying on the vine to our north is astounding. More on those tomorrow.