These are as sad as pictures from war torn arenas, being prettied up by an artfully place bouquet or poignantly arrayed toys. Each photo represents lives turned awry. It is more common daily. Nothing is being done to turn this tide; with taxes, limitations, harassments, onerous permit processes, agenda 21 and all "green" restrictions, it is becoming harder and harder to bring ideas to financial fruition, thus strangling job creation. As stated by UncommonSense...at least we now have equal poverty.

Surely some of these photos depict Starnesville. When Rand wrote AS the abandoned factory was unimaginable; now it's unavoidable.

"The beauty of abandoned places in Northeast Ohio " Hmmm, sounds an awful lot like the Jay Carney explaining high unemployment as being good as it gave workers "More time to be with their families"!

I grew up in Cleveland. One of the saddest stories in the region is that of "Millionaire's Row" (on Euclid Avenue)

Look it up sometime, there's a lot of snippets here and there, but not a whole lot of fully comprehensive history on it. Rockefeller, Mather, etc... look at the list of who built there, it reads like an Atlas Shrugged novel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Aven...

And now, every single one of them are gone, with the exception of a very few that remain standing (you can count the number that remain on one hand I believe... there used to be hundreds)... go progressives!

Not just because it is. Same as Olof it's new it's good. Also not necessarily true. It's good because of its value and usefulness.

What an archeological treasure! Oh, wait a minute! These sites are not a thousand years old, they are today's remnants.. Damn, what ugly blight. How very sad. I wonder how much productivity was lost when those locations were abandoned.

Its a slideshow from Atlas Shrugged.
More effective content than most of AS2 unfortunately.

Coming to a mall near you...slowly, over the next 10-20 years.

These place may make for good photography but they all represent lives being turned upside down as well. Showing the images is fine but they need to keep it context.
Who is John Galt!

Agreed. I do not live that far from those places living here in Michigan. One thing though the Government Motors Company buildings along the turnpikes are sure big and bright at night. Even with the recalls they or rather WE keep the lights on. I have people still ask what happened to Detroit? I ask a better question. What happened to Flint, Saginaw?

tragically those who have occupied the congress for the past 50 or so years do not know that they are the cause of companies going off shore and that trend will not abate any time soon. as manufacturers left the country their suppliers followed suit. now that we have no infrastructure to supply manufacturers of all different products the manufacturing plants either will decay as is shown or no new ones will be built. walmart said they would invest 500 billion in the next 10 years but there aren't any manufacturers to order from. even the a-hole from Berkshire Hathaway closed the last fruit of the loom factory in Kentucky so he could make the stuff cheaper in some central American country.

I find things like this interesting, in the sense that I find horror movies interesting. There is something scary about it all, and yet fascinating.

During the late 70s (I was in my teens), my family took a road trip that ran up the Keweenaw peninsula, which at the time was 60 miles or more or abandoned mines and crumbling buildings. The whole thing scared the hell out of me and I have never forgotten it).