Forum: Photography


Subject: October Photography Forum Challenge - Graceful Dilapidation

tizjezzme opened this issue on Sep 28, 2008 · 231 posts


bmac62 posted Mon, 20 October 2008 at 6:00 PM

Here's my number three. This store is still inhabited...not sure by who or why.

This is in the town of White Cloud, Kansas...population 238 in the year 2000.  White Cloud was built on the west bank of the mighty Missouri River.  It was a booming frontier town before our Civil War, 1861-1865.  Steamboats brought settlers, provided commerce and transportation back to civilization in St. Lewis. But the Railroad arrived in 1866.  Steamboat were done. Settlers moved west.  White Cloud was done.

Today its' claim to fame is it is one of the top ten flee markets twice a year. The other 50 weeks of the year it is mighty quiet.

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."