Tagging and street art in Detroit 48202 - Part 2

Here's some more of the photos I took after a morning at the VA Hospital in Detroit.

I went up to the train tracks to have a better look around. They are about 30 or so feet above street level.

So I walk across the tracks and see this (next two pics)... a couple hollowed out buildings with some brightly-colored street art on the inside.

And I had to get back across the tracks before this rolling train cut me off from my car.

My next couple posts will be what I saw in the hollowed-out buildings on the other side of the train tracks.

Tagging and street art in Detroit 48202 - Part 1

I was down again at the VA Hospital in Detroit, I brought my camera along, and I took a drive to see what was around there to see and I found some nice tagging and street art.

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Some nice street art on this building

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This is the sign outside the Tangent Gallery and Hastings Street Ballroom.

Along US 70 West in Tennessee

It's still Day 3 of my trip south and  it's still morning in Tennessee. I'm now traveling west on US 70, going from Dickson to Huntington. It hasn't warmed up at all from the previous night of freezing rain which hit western Tennessee; the storm even dropped some snow in northern Mississippi.

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The day before I had driven through Kentucky and couldn't really find anything I thought was Kentuckian. Most everything looked like something I might see in rural Michigan.

But this home and property seemed like Tennessee to me. 

Still cold, about 20 or so degrees as I recall. See the drips of ice?

And an out building for power equipment, tools and such.

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Here's a small house I liked.

The Dixie Radiator Service in Waverly, Tennessee

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This trailer was across US 70 from some railroad tracks.

I like house trailers so I pulled over to take a look. Because of the location it may have once been used as an office or a work area of some kind. I like the built-on in the front. Anyway, now it's just some junk storage for someone.

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This is from the Broadway Street/US 70 bridge going over the Tennessee River just west of New Johnsonville, Tennessee.

I was plenty nervous up there. It was cold, windy and that railing was low, probably only about 3 foot high. I was parked on the side (the shoulder was wide) and taking pictures while trucks rolled by. I didn't get too close to that edge.

The rusty superstructure is for the train tracks below.

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And Bogle Motors in Bruceton, Tennessee caught my eye as I drove by.

The lady who was there to open up the place pulled on the lot in her pickup and we waved to each other as I drove out. If it was a few minutes earlier we might of had a nice chat but I'd been on the road for awhile and I wanted to hit Huntingdon where I was going to turn south towards Mississippi.

US 41 and Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Before the end of an overcast January 15th, I got a motel room then went back out for a short drive around Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I would have liked to have had more time there. It seemed like an interesting place to take photos.

Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet," spent some of his early years in Hopkinsville and it was where his gift was first discovered. He's buried in Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville.

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L & N Railroad Depot

Built in 1892, this was the L & N Railroad Depot at 425 E. 9th Street. Because it was the only legal spot to drink alcohol between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Hopkinsville got the nickname "Hoptown" because train passengers wanted to know if it was ok to "hop off" and get a quick drink.

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A wall in the center of town.

Across the street is the vacant Gold Gallery.

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Ferrell's Hamburgers

As I drove through Hopkinsville, trying to stay on US 41, I saw this sign for Ferrell's Hamburgers and it was the main reason I wanted to stop and take some photos. In the photo above, as I have it cropped, Ferrell's is not much bigger than that one room. I wish I had time for a burger but it was late in the day and I had more photos to take.

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Not sure if this was a single family home, a group home, a building turned into apartments, I just don't know, but it was a nice looking, old building.

Across the street was this shotgun home owned by someone who was into local politics.

An antique stop on US 41.

All afternoon there were radio reports of a sleet, freezing rain, and snow storm coming to western Kentucky and Tennessee and that's just where I was. So I went to sleep that night not knowing how much road I would be able to drive the next day.