Door 204 - Closed Graffiti of Another Kind.

(Comments from Flickr -) anyjazz65 says: Thanks. It is one of the doors to the world famous Brookville Hotel in Brookville, Kansas. The Brookville Hotel was famous for home-style meals. It closed in this location and now operates under the same name in Abilene, Kansas. Hm. blairdashpb says: Did it always look this rundown? Nice graffiti - two words I never thought I’d put together. anyjazz65 says: The hotel in Brookville operated for 130 years (longer than Oklahoma has been a state) and finally 1999 closed and moved the operation to a similar building in Abilene, Kansas. The old building has been vacant since then. The names written in the dust are likely by local children who probably would not dream of defacing a building in a tiny town where there are probably less than 20 buildings all together ed ed says: there is something emblematic and moving about those dusty names: disappearing into nothing as they do... anyjazz65 says: Yes. I agree ed ed. It was the feeling I sometimes get while reading worn names on grave stones. You are standing near someone who exists then only as a name collecting dust, disconnected to everything except maybe bits of someone’s memory. Except these names are likely alive connected in conspiracy. Epitaphs for the living. Connected in dust.

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