Friday, March 13, 2009

Going Green in the West Bottoms




Continuing the brief color theme of the blog are these doors on buildings in the West Bottoms. Some Photoshop manipulation of photos 1 and 3. The middle one truly is that bright. In the bottom photo about 4 feet above the "1011" a note is written on the bricks, in white paint. It says: "Friday, July 13th, 1951" with a line. That denotes the high water mark when the levee gave way and the Bottoms quickly flooded. The green doors in that pix open onto a dock which is four feet above the street level where I was standing. That's deep water.

2 comments:

  1. I look atthose pictures every day at the Bunny the Newshound Gallery on St. John! I'll have to go lookin for that water mark too - that's a fer bit of H20.

    Sportster
    ...please visit the newshound gallery!

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  2. Anonymous Sportster is correct. A lot of my work is on view at the Northeast News, 5715 St. John Ave., right here in Northeast KC... 64123. Shameless self promotion.

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