Good Lock: 15 Kool Key Cutting Shops & Signs
Key cutting shops may be circling the retail store drain but their doom isn't quite locked in, as these 15 classic key cutting shops and signs illustrate. Key cutters occupy a cluttered ...
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Going Going Gone: 12 Closed & Abandoned Travel Agents
Online trip planning has decimated storefront travel agents and these closed & abandoned travel agencies show the loss goes beyond just tour three. The Jet Age saw an explosion of ...
Oh Snap! 15 Abandoned & Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks
Rendered obsolete by technology, hundreds of abandoned Fotomat drive-thru photo development kiosks still stand in suburban shopping center parking lots. ...
Unread: 12 Abandoned Inner City Newsstands
Once vital fixtures of the urban milieu, these inner city newsstands were abandoned by an information society evolving away from portable print media. ...
Photo Finished: 12 Closed & Abandoned Camera Stores
Point, click, shut! Camera stores are rapidly fading into obsolescence as smartphones take the place of mass market cameras, film and paid photo processing. ...
Railroaded: 9 Nifty Abandoned Train Car Graveyards
Where do obsolete trains go when they die? Many end up in railroad graveyards where these former station-stopping locomotives stay stopped and stationary. ...
Going Postal: 12 Stamped Out & Abandoned Post Offices
Since the only thing rapid about "snail mail" is the speed it's fading into disuse, no one should be surprised at the growing number of abandoned post offices. These once-proud centers of commerce ...
Dead Media: Art Installation Created with 497 VHS Tapes
What do you do with 497 obsolete VHS tapes? Noah Scalin ripped them apart and made them into a giant three-dimensional skull-shaped art installation entitled 'Dead Media'. The proprietor of ...
Meet the Deadline: 20 Abandoned Payphones
Payphones appear to be following the Pony Express down the well-worn path of obsolete technologies and their ubiquitous appearance in urban landscapes rings hollow in the face of today's cell phone ...
