writer photographer // exploring postindustrial america and beyond // RBroadtrip@gmail.com to collab
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I spent three months exploring the american rust belt, here’s how it went
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it’s all fun and games until you get to the hampton inn breakfast
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Legit a Hampton Inn off a freeway exit in rural Georgia would be a 4* hotel in the European grading system.
I’ve always wondered about this.
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at least once a week, I think about the vintage lever espresso machine in warsaw's hungarian trade pavilion
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a modern, midwestern take on the ancient image of our lady of mercy—sheltering and protecting humanity under her cloak
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basketball madonna
st. mary high school auditorium, warren, oh (1948)
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a modern, midwestern take on the ancient image of our lady of mercy—sheltering and protecting humanity under her cloak
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thanks to a friend for a tip about this building, but unfortunately I caught it at the worst time of day and shot straight into the sun
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you just don’t see national parks posting like this outside the midwest
Jun 12
The labor of immigrants fueled Michigan’s Copper Country mines to produce billions of pounds of copper. With the immigrants came their traditions, such as foods, like the pasty from the Cornish. Without these immigrants, what would fill the Keweenaw’s plates today?
ALT Photo of a beautifully browned pastry hand pie on a tan silicone baking liner with many concentric circles printed on it.
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Bas Relief Friday
Kedzie-Grace Post Office - Chicago, Illinois
Mercury - Peter Paul Ott (1938)
Photo by Barbara Bernstein
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Jun 11
red-brick romanesque
st. mary rc church, warren, oh (1902-07)
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Jun 11
the more precise name for this style is rundbogenstil (round arch style), brought by german migrants to the midwest
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the steelworkers of warren
glenn shaw, romance of steel, old, post office, warren, oh (1938)
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the first of two murals, comparing the old ways of steel-making with modern innovations
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Jun 11
need to cop the haiti-poland revolutionary soccer kit
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Jun 10
went to send postcards to pittsburgh and the post office only had mister rogers stamps lol
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Jun 10
we need to bring back eastern bloc lighting manufacturing
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Jun 10
lyndora: the city of love and steel
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lyndora... the home of the one gal who I should have married. Her dad was pres of some steel company there.
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also home to the most overbuilt church gutters I’ve ever seen (pic 1)
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