Old barns on there way out.
Oct 27, 2017 09:23:39 #
Tikva
Loc: Waukesha, WI
Great series. Looks like something I need to do, take long drives off the beaten path looking for old barns. There should be some not too far from here. Sounds like a wonderful thing to do on a quiet weekend.
Oct 27, 2017 09:46:37 #
Oct 27, 2017 10:09:25 #
Great series, nicely photographed. Sad to see these in the shape they are in.
Oct 27, 2017 11:01:50 #
So sad to see a bygone era. It's happening around here too, but new ones are being built.
Oct 27, 2017 11:08:25 #
I hate seeing old barns deteriorate. And I have one that's doing just that. For 10 years I've tried to get someone to fix it and no one will do it. No one wants to work anymore and I can't do it myself. Sometimes I cry.
Oct 27, 2017 11:19:08 #
Nice photos.
In the second photo I was going to say they should get that tractor out of there before the building collapses on it but then I thought it probably doesn't run and maybe it's holding up part of the barn.
In the second photo I was going to say they should get that tractor out of there before the building collapses on it but then I thought it probably doesn't run and maybe it's holding up part of the barn.
Oct 27, 2017 12:22:50 #
Oct 27, 2017 13:19:55 #
Thats too bad, such a shame. #1 and 2 looked like still being used. Looks like a tractor in the lower right on #2, and bins stored in #1.
Oct 27, 2017 13:27:32 #
barbie.lewis
Loc: Livingston, Texas
Beautiful photographs of hauntingly sad images. Well done. You have preserved the memory of these places.
Oct 27, 2017 15:06:57 #
Oct 27, 2017 16:24:57 #
Nice series, Hal. It's happening all over New England as well. I once had a collection of 200+ photos of old barns; it disappeared during the early days of the Google Cloud.
Mark
Mark
Oct 27, 2017 17:07:48 #
Oct 27, 2017 18:07:23 #
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Old barns are awesome! Lost my favorite barn several years ago to a 2 foot snow load...
Oct 27, 2017 20:48:50 #
Oct 27, 2017 22:37:21 #
I often wonder about such places. At one time someone with a lot of energy and drive decided to create a new family business farming the land. At the turn of the last century almost everyone made their living farming. Over a few generations the kids wanted to get off the farm and move to the city. The world wars came and changed the economics of the world. Economics made it not worth it anymore. It's a sad tribute to an era that has passed into history.
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