seaside decay: how did cardboard man die?
When I walked through this old fun fair in Morecambe a few weeks ago it reminded me (somewhat oddly) of an abandoned film set of a Hollywood western. If I were to imagine a more appropriate American comparison, Coney Island would be it, albeit on a much grander scale. But there's something about the doors in the first two photos that evokes a western movie setting. There was no tumbleweed of course, but there were plenty of chip wrappers drifting around. The third photograph suggests that the area has been modified for some skateboarding. I kind of like the combination of the skateboarders' alteration of the area and the general ghostliness that presides.
The bottom photograph, "Jug of Tea, 1.50" (I don't know how to do the pound sign on my U.S.-set laptop) is a particular favorite. How did cardboard man die?
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Wow, this reminds me of a time when my father was working on a car for a man who owned a little amusement park in the Memphis area in the early 1970s. The place was called Lakeland and it had little penny-ante rides, nothing very exciting. But we were there in off-season, and there were cobwebs on everything, dust and dirt everywhere. It had an eerie quality and made everything seem delapidated and haunted. I think I liked it better that way than I would have full of lights, people and sound.
Love these photos, by the way. The pound sign freaked me out - I had to re-look at your profile, because I was thinking you were in the twin cities area of the USA! Then I read the post.
phlegmfatale,
I'm so glad that my photographs bring back memories like that. It's that haunted thing that I think is really interesting about old seaside towns like Morecambe. I imagine that Coney Island is very similar in that regard. Yes, I am in the (US) Twin Cities--Minneapolis-St Paul. These photographs of Morecambe are from when I went home to England a few weeks ago.
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