America’s Fading Main Streets: A Photo Essay

[ND-Dem]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2014/09/21/america-s-fading-main-streets.html#a9134806-3ce0-47b9-8dcc-9fe8cfba4a75



"It's inconceivable that we spend trillions on wars and billions bailing out Wall Street but that these important parts of our country and ultimately individuality are just left to rot."

[handmade34]

1. I have photos from across the Country

just like this...

Camden...

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[ND-Dem]

2. Yes. My town is beginning to look like this too. It's lily white. And increasingly poor.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. kick

[jmowreader]

4. Bruce Springsteen nailed this shit in 1984

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
--"My Hometown"

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R!

Great post! Thanks!

[Botany]

6. Brownsville, PA

I have seen a few times and it puts my heart in my throat. That town could be
a real jewel. It isn't hard to see in the days gone by the kids going to school,
the teens cruising the strip, and the workers going to the steel plants.

I drive through it from time to time and last March I tried to explain to my son
that towns like Brownsville, PA helped to build America and win WW II.

thanx for posting!