Vacant America: Abandoned and Vacant Places

By Tracy Amos

Mysterious, slightly fearsome, empty and abandoned places...real structures that have fallen into disrepair and decay...long since abandoned. These pictures tell their own stories of these structures as they once were.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493188024

Tracy Amos

Empty places hold an essence that reflects the people who once resided in them...from a different time, maybe a different era. These places have untold stories that may never be known. However, rather than just have them fall into desolation and forgetfulness, I opt to capture these unique structures in pictures and let what's left of them tell their own stories and depict their own pieces of history. I absolutely love abandoned places and try to explore them when I can. Anywhere from small two-room dwellings to huge, vacant factories or decrepit hotels...I love finding these places, noting the unique facades and imagery of certain eras that have long-since passed, and I often speculate on who lived there, who visited, who worked in these structures. It's always a mystery.

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Copyright © 2014 by Tracy Amos. 615527

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-8801-7

Hardcover 978-1-4931-8800-0

EBook 978-1-4931-8802-4

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 03/21/2014

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Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Elon Coleman’s General Store

Lonely Railroad

Desolate Drive-In

Royal Inn On Dixie

Walmart—Crestwood, Ky

Executive Inn—Louisville, Ky

Sea, Sand, And Sun

Thunderbird Beach Motel

Sunny Motel

Vintage On The Coast

Alcatraz

Showcase Cinemas Bardstown, Louisville, Ky

Miscellaneous Abandoned

Possible Abandoned Hotel

Vintage Hotels

Abandoned And Forgotten

Vintage Vegas

Stardust

San Remo

The Frontier

The Sahara

Imperial Palace

The Boneyard

Butler County, Kentucky

Home

DEDICATION

To my family, for the memories. And to Ryley, who keeps me young and curious.

PROLOGUE

From the lines and points of the Atomic Age and the curves and wavy swirls of the Streamline Age to the quaint, homey terraced hotels that still sport the vintage look; to the rural, abandoned places that were once homes to people and families: these structures tell a story; share a part of life, an era, which is both personal and historical.

ELON COLEMAN’S GENERAL STORE

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