Thoughts and Works in Progress

Grain Elevators

grain elevators were created to help with the problem of unloading and storing grain that needed to be transported

Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

What is: the Kimo theatre was the first to fuse art deco with Native American architectural/decoration -- it was called Pueblo Deco style. What was: The Kimo theatre came to life a year after the birth of Route 66. It was an example of opulent…

Pecos Pueblo and Mission Ruins

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: The Pecos Mission circa 1717, as restored with archaeological ruins around them What Was: Native people inhabited the Pecos Valley for 1200 years. Pecos was one of the largest and most powerful pueblos. In the early 1600s the…

The New World Neighborhood, Clarksdale, MS

Music History Photo Stories, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: Abandoned Buildings, MLK and Yazoo Avenue area, Clarksdale, MS What was: The neighborhood was known as the New World from the beginning of the twentieth Century. A breeding ground for ragtime, blues and jazz. Clarksdale was…

George and Polly Gilmore, Montpelier, Virginia

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

The cabin is representative of not just the Gilmore family’s early years of freedom, but countless other newly freed African Americans in the Piedmont region of Virginia during Reconstruction.

Abandoned, On the Way to Nat Turner’s Cave

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

In Southampton, VA, the old folks warn them not to sneak into abandoned houses, where rotting floors and walls are said to be stained with blood. This is a haunted landscape where Nat Turner's rebellion occurred.