This Old House part 1

[walkin jack]

Highway 6 between Houston and Waco, where my folks lived, was always strewn with abandoned houses. I once got the notion to photograph some of the more interesting ones. Using the borader definition of the term I included barns, churches and residential homes. I titled the series "This Old House".

The random photo thread got me to thinking about this and I decided to post it up. There are 15 pics in the series so it will take me 2 more posts after this one to get them all in.

Awaaaay we go....

 

[walkin jack]

This Old House part 2

Here's the next 5.

 

[walkin jack]

This Old House part 3

Here's the last 5.

 

[eveled]

It will be interesting to go back every ten years for another picture of each one.

 

[walkin jack]

This Old House part 4-straglers

Here's 3 more. The last one is actually an old store not any kind of a house but it was so interesting I had to include it.

FINI

 

[Watchdog]

Here's 3 more. The last one is actually an old store not any kind of a house but it was so interesting I had to include it.

FINI

I really like this one. Nice series.

 

[walkin jack]

It will be interesting to go back every ten years for another picture of each one.

It would be interesting indeed but by the time another 10years goes by many of them will be either gone or obscured by an over growth of vegetation.....but that is an interesting thought to ponder.

 

[Arik]

Some of them don't look abandoned. Grass is seems cut, driveways visible... The one church did have a green sign on the front door.

We have similar stuff here despite being a very built up area. Typically only visible in the winter. As you drive by you can see deep it the woods and see the remains of what used to be a small house. Maybe a wall or two still standing.

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[bigwheelzip]

About 20 years ago, when I was working a contract in NC, I got curious to see the trailer-park where I lived 14 years earlier, when on contract for the construction of a nuke plant near Waynesboro GA .

The only two businesses nearby had been abandoned, and the trailer-park was a field reverting back to nature. The only sign of it's previous use, were the mailboxes. Spooky how a place active around the clock with out-of-town construction workers can evaporate so quickly.



The building seen at the left end of the mailboxes was the center of activity for the area. It was the first gas/convenience store near the site for thousands of workers to use.



Counter gals standing in the same place 14 years earlier (34 years ago).


Thanks for the thread. I love exploring old ruins.

 

[walkin jack]

Some of them don't look abandoned. Grass is seems cut, driveways visible... The one church did have a green sign on the front door.

We have similar stuff here despite being a very built up area. Typically only visible in the winter. As you drive by you can see deep it the woods and see the remains of what used to be a small house. Maybe a wall or two still standing.

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Yes Strictly speaking one or two may still have been in use. Especially a couple of the churches. Also the old 3 story house was bought a relocated but subsequently abandoned. I watched that house sit there for years after a start and fixing it up it went abandoned. I never found out what happened to it but the last time I went by that spot (June of 2009) it was gone without any trace that it or anything else had ever been there.

One of the newer churches that is still in use in in the little town of Mexia, pronounced meh-HAY-a, and when my dad was in his early 20s he attended that church with his girlfriend who live just up the street from it. It's still goin' Strong

 

[the ringo kid]

This one reminds me of Lucas McCain's place. )

Jack, you REALLY ought to do a book on these.

Ive seen loads like these around my area--going up to Beeville, to San Antonio-Houston etc. Ive always had a fascination for what was--and the stories behind them.

 

[the ringo kid]

This one looks like an old school building to me.

 

[the ringo kid]

There is a house exactly like this one-color and all--in my old hometown of Kingsville--that we almost moved into-after my dad died in Aug 88. It was about the same condition as this one too. If anyone heads through Kingsville anytime soon? If I recall-this house is on King street heading towards Armstrong street. Its been so long-that I cant remember if its the corner house or not?

 

[the ringo kid]

The Bluebonnets gives it a nice touch. The third image looks like it may have been an old country store/house.

 

[the ringo kid]

Cant believe nobody rated this thread til now. )

 

[ralph7]

Photo #16 looks like what little is left of the old Sealy ***** house on I-10.
Memories....

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

Walkin' Jack, this reminds me of the old ranch houses around Marathon, Alpine, Fort Davis and Marfa,TX that I like so much. Thanks for the thread.

 

[Onomea]

I used to see a lot of these sorts of abandoned houses and other buildings when driving in rural Virginia. I find seeing them a bittersweet experience. I think we probably all do. On the one hand, they are interesting, even beautiful, and, on the other, they make us think of the men and women who struggled to build the houses, raise families, and survive there through the vissitudes of their lives.

Some are abandoned, I think, because the inhabitants couldn't make it work, or simply died. But I like to think others were abandoned because the inhabitants, or their children, met with great success and moved off to happy and fulfilling lives elsewhere.

(I also often think, "Hmm. I bet I could fix that old place up!" If I voice this comment to my wife, though, as I occasionally have, she'll say it's a crazy idea, and I'd best forget it! )

 

[Mike G 0351]

I like exploring old barns and houses....
I liked the 3 story Victorian house..

 

[arjay]

A miners cabin.Even has 3" t&g flooring

An old homestead

D&RG housing at the moffat tunnel

American city

I just marvel at how tough these people were