I doubt they salvaged anything. People here just destroy things without
thinking. I remember the door being very solid and beautiful. The house was
full of glass doorknobs. Those, the door, the sink, and the radiator would
all be worth money to restorers.
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Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-747-3962
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
On 2/21/09 1:41 AM, "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for that, Chris.
>
> I wonder if they salvaged anything from it. The door in the living
> room looks interesting, but that radiator would fetch a pretty penny
> on the secondhand market in the UK.
>
> Chris
>
> On 21 Feb 2009, at 01:10, Chris Crawford wrote:
>
>> The bedrooms upstairs were not interesting, but I noticed a narrow
>> hallway
>> going off of one of the rooms to the walk-in attic. I went down
>> there and
>> THERE as the dress! I didn't even walk out onto the attic floor, it
>> looked
>> unsafe. I stood my tripod in the doorway and shot two rolls of film
>> of the
>> scene (the rolls were duplicates to ensure I'd have the shot if I
>> screwed up
>> developing one). I had never been and never have since been paranoid
>> about
>> losing a shot enough to duplicate shots on two rolls but this photo
>> was SO
>> PERFECT. It has been my most popular image by far. I think it was
>> New Years
>> Day, 2001 when I made the dress photo. The house was torn down the
>> next day.
>> There is a gas station there now.
>>
>> Here is the outside of the house:
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/fine_art/portfolio/abandoned/images/pics/d
>> ress-house.jpg
>>
>> Here is the kitchen:
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/fine_art/portfolio/abandoned/photopages/si
>> nk.htm
>>
>> Here is the bathroom shower door:
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/fine_art/portfolio/abandoned/photopages/sh
>> ower.htm
>>
>> Here is the living room:
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/fine_art/portfolio/abandoned/photopages/li
>> ving-room.htm
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