Lost Inscription

One of my posts below was of a building which had the high water mark written on it from the flood of 1951. Well the people that are "renovating" the building apparently decided that history is irrelevant to the future (unless they are going to put up some plaque in its place... right). So... at least I have a photo of it... and now you will too. I want to make it harder to stamp out the past. Here it is... the location in the first photo and a crop in the second.

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.

Dodge

West Bottoms rusty body lot.

Bottoms Up

Another post from Kansas City's West Bottoms.   This area reminds me of the Crossroads District 10 years ago.  Plenty of available space.  Artist colonies forming. Newly and undiscovered.  I am terrifically fond of the elderly when it comes to buildings and architecture!