Buildings melt but the soul is in the people

This old set of Ice Houses in Arabi, Louisiana were on there way out before Katrina. Four years later, they are barely hanging on and have had a sign on them notifying owners of impending demo.

Many of the old and historic buildings in New Orleans and the surrounding areas await the same fate as these two.

I'm just glad the soul of the city is in the hearts of its people and not the walls of its buildings.

BTW, I used the "rain on the windshield" filter.

 

Kirk

It is a good evidence how the new pushes the old out... it is not only in your surrounding, the concrete "monsters" are replacing the beauty of the past architecture in many places of the world, and you are right people remember, and I know are missing it. I photo in the old part of the city and I see the difference.

 

It is a well done documentary story which is enhancing the message with your filter use.

It's hard not to get teary when the world as you knew it becomes swept away. I think this captures memory well, the sense of structure coming apart at the joints, of dissolving and bleeding into whatever flow is coming.

The treatment fits the subject which will soon exist only in a city of memory.