Thoughts and Works in Progress

Miller and Rhoads…a retail pioneer

What is: A Hilton hotel and apartment building in the place of a once pioneering retail flagship store and HQ. What was: Begun as a dry good shop by Mr. Miller and Mr. Rhoads in 1888, Miller and Rhoads became an iconic department store…

Eastern Shore Store

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

This store has everything! Ashtrays, fireworks, keychains, ham, bacon, sausage, peanuts. Everything imaginable gift and trinket you can think of. It has character.

Abandoned near Conway, Texas

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

I have no big story...an abandoned gas station and sign near Conway, Texas along Route 66.

Frisco Pier, Outerbanks, North Carolina

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The Frisco Pier in North Carolina's Outer Banks. There were complications with the insurance company. Damaged not destroyed.

Abandoned sharecropping home

Binhammer Photographs, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: Abandoned sharecropping home at the edge of the fields, Money, MS What was: Typical sharecropper shack was usually located with the crop entirely surrounding the house. After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters…

Statue of Liberty replica, Chimborazo Park, Richmond, VA

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Statue of Liberty replica (this one #136 of about 200) dedicated in Chimborazo Park on February 11, 1951. A gift to the city by the Boy Scouts of Robert E. Lee Council in 1951.