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Documenting the rapidly changing built environment

Writing yesterday about the changes to my childhood neighborhood before I was born made me think about how much an intersection near my northwest Indianapolis home has changed in the 20 years I’ve...

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1932 Standard station iPhone 5 2013 I’m planning our Spring Break vacation, so I’ve been thinking about past trips, like the one we took in 2013 along Route 66.  

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Sunrise over the Speedway station iPhone 5 2015 While waiting at a stoplight, I stuck my phone through my car’s sunroof to photograph this.

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single frame: Shell

Shell Pentax ME, 50mm f/1.4 SMC Pentax-M Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400 2017 It is comforting to encounter the roadside architecture and signage of my 1970s childhood, even when it’s in a museum. Shell...

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Restored Standard service station on Route 66

We were in the first hours of our Route 66 trip’s first day when we reached Odell, a small northern-Illinois town, and its wonderful Standard service station. You know how it is early on a road trip....

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Restored Phillips 66 service station on Route 66

They call Spencer a ghost town, but I say that there would have to be more town here for it to qualify. This dot on the southwest Missouri map has but one row of buildings, capped by this restored...

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Captured: Pops!!

Trip fatigue hit in Oklahoma. My sons felt it first. When we stopped for the night east of Tulsa on Wednesday, my youngest announced that he wouldn’t mind if we turned around for home in the morning....

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Captured: Bob’s Century

I was in a super bad mood the other day and decided to distract myself from it by looking back through some photographs from just after I got my first digital camera, a Kodak EasyShare Z730. I found...

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Locally Grown Gardens

I’ve photographed Locally Grown Gardens more times than I’ve been inside. I hereby make a pact with myself: from now on, I will step inside and buy something every time I photograph something here....

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single frame: Food center

Food center Pentax K10D, 28-80mm f/3.5-4.7 SMC Pentax-FA 2017 When you’re on a road trip, especially on a rural road, you stop to take care of physical needs wherever you can. My car’s tank was well...

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Standard Oil Red Crown station in Lafayette, Indiana

You know I love old gas stations. It’s always a pleasure when I find one. I most commonly find them on old alignments of highways, but I suppose that’s because I frequent those kinds of roads. But many...

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Would you believe this used to be a gas station?

Canon PowerShot S95, 2012 When I started my road-trip hobby, I was entirely interested in finding where the old roads used to go. Major roads were often straightened, widened, and even moved during...

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