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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The state of things to come ... is now.

A sort of symbol of the status of American Education. The Bavaria, Kansas District High School.

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UFO

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Wordless Wednesday - Church of the Holy Grain

My own Wordless Wednesday

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Lockheed Constellation NC1206 Salina, Kansas

She sat alone in the corner
Dreaming her fading dreams,
Watching her world whistle and whine,
Away and without her.
Once more she thought, once more in the sky.
Once more where there is no horizon,
To fly, once more, to fly.


(Update Februrary 6, 2008) I'm recycling this again because I received a note from a man associated with this spectacular aircraft. Here is what he says:

Hello anyzazz65, Just an update for you and that link you
posted here, I was at her side in Salina in January, she
looks a bit sad now,holes appearing in the surfaces. Have
posted some pics of her, she still looks salvagable,but im
short on the cash at the moment.
The link hasn't been updated since 2003, so im sure some
people would like to know whats happened, or not.
I see her whenever I'm up on the road through Salina, as i live in Wichita.
regards
Steve

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I took the above picture in 1993. It is a Lockheed Constellation. Here is an interesting account of the life and history of this spectacular aircraft.
www.conniesurvivors.com/1-salina_connie.htm

Here are some photographs I took in September of 2009.

	Can't get enough? For more piotures of the Lockheed Constellation go HERE and HERE.