I frequently find myself in the former mill town of Lincoln, New Hampshire. Once known for turning trees into paper, Lincoln has been embracing the tourism, skiing/snowboarding, hiking, condo buying population, and fighting every minute of it. There is quite a bit of love/hate between the local population and the "Mass Holes" who come up to create weekend traffic problems along the Kancamagus Hwy.
Well, one of the things I have enjoyed since my first visit to Lincoln in 1999 is the former paper mill site. Once a mighty, smoke belching, river polluting factory that made large rolls of fine New Hampshire paper, the mill was shut down, and a chunk of the facility was turned into a mall of sorts. Meanwhile, the rest of the mill was left to rot along the banks of the mighty Kancamagus River. I have a number of photos of the mill, unfortunately for now all I have to upload were taken with my phone. So here is a shot of the mill I took in June of 2009. I will be updating this collection in the future. For now, enjoy one of the last pictures I took of the mill. It has been completely razed as of January, 2010.
Back in June, 2009 I went to Detroit to take some final pictures of the remaining structure that used to be Tiger Stadium. This was a pretty sad occasion as Tiger Stadium was really one of the best places to see a baseball game, and it was the first place I ever saw a regular season professional baseball game.
The photos I am presenting show a point of time when the actual demo was stopped after someone realized there were still a lot of stadium seats that were being ripped out with the demolition. So they started removing the seats, potentially for the collectible stadium seat sale aftermarket.
I recently caught some shots of Tiger Stadium on the news, and it is not much more than a pile of rubble now.
I really feel like I should apologize for the picture of me in this collection. I was forced to grow the mustache for a canoe trip.
Urban Decay
