Sweet Tooth for Ghost Ads

Who can resist these old ghost signs and ads?  Taken on the South Side of Williamsburg, near Marcy and 5th.

Bayside, But Not Bayside....Gated Community, But Not a Gated Community

Taken near the waterfront near the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border.

Its...? Its...? Um... Something...

This shot was taken two years ago when I enjoyed a 'tour' Citizen's Gas and Coke facility on the East side of Indianapolis. This place was a major inspirational factor for #4 in my recent Nighthawk Photography post. Take my word for it, parts of this facility are downright foul with unspeakable substances bubbling up from the ground, don't believe me? See for yourself here.

Bayside Fuel Oil Depot

Taken on Smith Street, near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn...

Exact location is geotagged in Flickr, you may see it by clicking on the image...

CocaCola Sunset

At the old Art Deco CocaCola bottling plant which is now an IPS bust depot.

This is best if viewed large on black, you may click the image to do so...

Industrial Indianapolis IV

Yeah Yeah Yeah, the Citizen's Gas and Coke plant yet again...What can I say, I like to photograph this place. This was shot from the Prospect Street entrance, right by Un-Pleasant Run.

Near the corner of Sherman and Michigan...

On South Rural Street, just a little south of Washington Street...

Belmont and Kentucky

Over Eagle Creek on the southwest side...

Diamond Chain Company

Hetherington and Berner Inc.

A long standing relic at the corner of McCarty and Kentucky Avenue is the now abandoned Hetherington & Berner iron works complex. I've heard the days for this structure is coming to an end, so I took a few shots of it before its gone...

I managed to get this shot of the inside of the main warehouse...

Vegetation has been surrounding and consuming this place for a while...

On S. Harding Street

These were taken on Harding Street, from W. Washington Street to Oliver Avenue...

These are best if viewed large:




My bike and I can cast a large shadow...

Harding Street Pub and Grub...

On E. Prospect Street

A real junkyard dog protested my presence here...Luckily a chain separated me from the surly Rottweiler...


Safety and quality, no doubt; but the environment is quite a lofty claim for the king of Indianapolis Brown fields...I can't even imagine what the remediation and reclamation cost of this place would be. Walk anywhere close and you can smell the benzene and coal tar. There was recently a good post about brown field development on Urban Indy, and may accessed here.


Yes, it says boobies can....


Not your grandma's coke oven...What?

This red stuff was bubbling up out of the ground, running down the street, and into a storm drain (which undoubtedly drains into the nearby Pleasant Run).

More invasive flora...

Over Prospect Street and Pleasant Run

These shots are taken from the top of the railroad overpass above Prospect Street, which is over Pleasant Run...

Looking downstream of Pleasant Run through the Citizen's gas and coke facility...

A wide angle view of the facility...

Just because :)

More South Meridian Eye Bitters

A little more exploration of the South Meridian / Sacred Heart area. On this occasion, I went and explored the west side of Meridian Street, near Bluff Road. There are two things that should be noted:

1. The first is that there are some shots that contain profanity; you've been warned :)
2. The second is that spacing between the captions and photos are a little off (one of Blogger's more pleasant idiosyncrasies)...

It was a beautiful that day...


Because Green Nuts and Popcorn would violate copyright laws...


Over Meridian Street, dated 1931...




Some of the cool doors and entry ways on these buildings...






I was able to get some shots of the inside of this place...

Very Inviting...

Turn around an be greeted with a gigantic sinkhole full of e-waste...

The rear of this building (facing Bluff Road)

On the other side(west) of Bluff Road...

The intersection of Bluff and Meridian is a fork that happens on the other side of this bridge...I wonder if the abandoned matresses were a trade-up that the proprietors of the nearby matress store didn't intend on?