Redlining is the practice of shutting certain races out of neighborhoods, and it is still a big problem today. Such behaviors were a big factor in creating the need for these projects.
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The sun shining through one of the buildings; everything was overgrown.
A dead work truck rusts near an outbuilding. Everything is marked with a code. Modernity.
The Tilston School,built in the late 1960s. In front of it is a memorial and model to the first schoolhouse. This building, however, has been turned into a kind of town dump. The classrooms are filled with mattresses and discarded tires and trash.
“Roger O.”
Camera: Pentax 67. Film: Kodak Ektar 100.
Wind took the spring melt on the trees growing in taconite pellets and made it airborne. Loading chutes in the background.
Looking through a launcher doorway at an outbuilding… the fire truck garage, if I recall correctly. Fomapan medium format in Pentax 67.
At the end of a conveyor belt and poised over a loading station, it’s easy to image the tinny sound of chicken feed sliding across the metal. Like sand on the old-fashioned stainless steel playground slides.
Taken several years before the tornado story when the weather, and the condition of the buildings, were nice.