21 Friday Aug 2020
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abandoned, alberta, art, Banff, Banff National Park, canada, graffiti, hiking, staycation, Travel
Some art painted onto the wall of an abandoned mine building partway up Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park.
13 Monday Nov 2017
Posted in art, Berlin, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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abandoned, art, Berlin, cinema, Germany, photography, photowalk, random, street art, theatre, Travel, urban
The marquee of an abandoned movie theatre in Berlin, Germany, hides an appropriate former name for the place, which Google tells me means “Do not play”. The last time I was there, in September 2015, the building was in a state of disrepair and was covered with all sorts of art.
08 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in Alberta, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random
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abandoned, alberta, canada, Crowsnest Pass, oxidation, photography, photowalk, random
From this spring: Some random decaying objects left outside a former business in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
24 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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abandoned, alberta, calgary, canada, Firestone, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photowalk, random, urban
This derelict distillation column is one of the very few visual reminders of a long-gone Firestone tire plant, which occupied an industrial site adjacent to the present-day Barlow/Max Bell CTrain station in Calgary.
28 Sunday May 2017
Posted in Alberta, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random
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abandoned, alberta, canada, Crowsnest Pass, history, photography, photowalk, random
Some more randomness from the Crowsnest Museum in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
27 Saturday May 2017
Posted in Alberta, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
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abandoned, alberta, canada, Crowsnest Pass, history, photography, photowalk, random, Travel
This gas pump is just one of the random relics of the past stored behind the Crowsnest Museum in Coleman, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
26 Friday May 2017
Posted in photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
Some good old-fashioned painted advertising of the now-dormant Roxy Theatre in Coleman, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
15 Monday May 2017
Posted in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
11 Thursday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
Montreal’s old Empress Theatre, also knows as Cinema V, is the last-remaining Egyptian-revival theatre building in Canada. (A WikiPedia entry for this building suggests it might have been the only one ever built.)
It’s been closed for years, but its exterior gives clues to its colourful past, first as a silent movie house, a repertory cinema and a first-run theatre. A fire in 1992 forced it to close for good.
After decades of decay and many failed efforts to revive the place, the local government recently tried for a new push to renovate and re-open the institution in time for Montreal’s 375th birthday in 2017.
28 Sunday Dec 2014
Ricky Leong 