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Something About Change and Decay

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An alleyway in Caribou that has become overgrown.

I took a short walk during my lunch break today to snap a few photos. I’m not sure what I find so fascinating about taking photos of the crumbling parts of town. Maybe it’s the way things change over time; nothing ever stays the same forever, which I guess is how anything acquires any value.

Having lived in Caribou for so long, it’s interesting to wander around and observe how things have changed over the years. I feel like I’m particularly drawn to the decaying parts of town, but that might just be because there are so few newly renovated or developed parts of town these days. The whole place feels a bit abandoned even though there are still people in it.

A retaining wall that is slowly deteriorating.
This retaining wall in the back of a parking lot shows signs of deterioration, even where it has been repaired. This wall borders the parking lot of the old ATX building where I worked for several years. The wall was actually rebuilt several times in the mid-2000s after erosion from rainfall caused the wall, made of bricks resting on top of each other without mortar, to collapse in several places, crushing several nearby cars. That was before someone decided to rebuild it a final time using larger bricks and mortar.
Concrete barriers between Grange Street and the post office.
Concrete barriers between Grange Street and the post office.
The front of the newly stripped Powers Theater.
A closeup of the Powers Theater sign.
The Powers Theater on Sweden Street is being stripped of its old yellow and blue paint job. The newly exposed front of the building was washed a day or so ago, bringing out its original color and making the individual bricks of the lettering in the buildings sign visible again.
A mattress on an old wooden walkway.
A mattress rests on an old wooden walkway on the side of the old ATX building, now called the “Cassidy Compound”. The items scattered around the mattress suggest that someone has been camping out here.
An old burned out building by Caribou Stream.
Here is another view of the old burned out apartment building on Water Street. The view is of the back side of the building.

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