Abandoned Places - The Lyric Theatre versus The Alabama Theatre (July 09)
I have discovered that there really is a limit to my abilities to post often. While I am reading many of your amazing posts, I’m limited to only a few hours a day that I can plan write and edit a post of my own.
As we climbed through The Lyric Tower, the higher we went, another thing became evident. The doors in the top 3 floors all had stories to tell. On the sixth floor, all the doors were carefully removed and
Right this way
Some doorways to the past still stand
Some lay open beckoning us to enter and intrude on what secrets lay within
Some doorways show change
Some merely await renewal
Passing of businesses
Doors to a past when Birmingham had a trolley system
Some seemed to point the way to new and old
Some doors had moved on and left their past behind
The upper two floors had suffered the longest neglect, had the greatest damage and contained to oldest graffiti.
Notice the old style phone number?
Reflections on the past?
Waiting room benches (with some utility)
Children’s play
Closing time? 6th Floor Office
Much as I wanted to complete this set with one post, I also don’t want to force 30+ images. One more from this trip to the Lyric will follow. They will also contain “the hall of bones.”
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If you would like to assist in the restoration and recovery of The Lyric, donations can be made through their website ( http://www.lyricfineartstheatre.com/ ) and potentially through special events and activities to be announced in the near future. Folks, I’ll be posting more images (normal and comparison sets) soon.
As we climbed through The Lyric Tower, the higher we went, another thing became evident. The doors in the top 3 floors all had stories to tell. On the sixth floor, all the doors were carefully removed and
Right this way
Some doorways to the past still stand
Some lay open beckoning us to enter and intrude on what secrets lay within
Some doorways show change
Some merely await renewal
Passing of businesses
Doors to a past when Birmingham had a trolley system
Some seemed to point the way to new and old
Some doors had moved on and left their past behind
The upper two floors had suffered the longest neglect, had the greatest damage and contained to oldest graffiti.
Notice the old style phone number?
Reflections on the past?
Waiting room benches (with some utility)
Children’s play
Closing time? 6th Floor Office
Much as I wanted to complete this set with one post, I also don’t want to force 30+ images. One more from this trip to the Lyric will follow. They will also contain “the hall of bones.”
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If you would like to assist in the restoration and recovery of The Lyric, donations can be made through their website ( http://www.lyricfineartstheatre.com/ ) and potentially through special events and activities to be announced in the near future. Folks, I’ll be posting more images (normal and comparison sets) soon.