Showing posts with label West Bottoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Bottoms. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Textures... West Bottoms









Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Night Visions

Had very little time tonight.... but wanted to get out of the house. Corinthian Hall below.12th Street Viaduct.... still closed..... looking west.
12th Street Viaduct looking east.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

West Bottoms After Dark II



Two more shots, one of the "green door building" and one of the 12th Street Viaduct which is undergoing deck repair even as I blog.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Twelfth Street Viaduct






The 12th Street Viaduct runs from Downtown into the West Bottoms. Built in the 20s it was showing its age. Two years ago crews strengthened the support columns and patched the concrete where needed. Now work on replacing the upper deck is about to begin.... and none too soon it was like driving on a washboard with steroids.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

West Bottoms After Dark









Still my favorite place to shoot. Whether on my own or doing portraits. There's just something unspoiled about a place that's just beginning to be discovered.

Monday, March 16, 2009

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.

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.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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!