tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:11:15 +0000christlerdetroitfordgeneral motorsgmhaloweenpovertyHarlemHempsteadHoly ApostlesNov 4November 4Obamacivil rightscrimedepressionelectionhungerimmigrationraverecessionsexsoup kitchenteenteenagersunemploymenthttp://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (jake price)Blogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-3461640968768180803Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:42:00 +00002008-12-18T12:53:58.604-05:00If you take a turn off the interstate and get lost in a small town you'll come to a main street and more than likely that main street will be full of empty store fronts. Driving around, time and again, I'd come across shuttered businesses and was saddened to see so many of them rotting away, covered by cobwebs and dust. At one time individuals kept these places up and supported their lives and http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/12/main-streets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-4447206191279503960Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:54:00 +00002008-12-04T14:23:44.858-05:00These photos where taken far away from the United States in Kosovo and Albania. This is one in a series that I'm calling America Abroad. On my travels I often witness the results of American policy and when there is a direct connection I'm going to include those stories in these postings.Yesterday (3 December 2008), 93 nations agreed to ban cluster bombs at a conference in Oslo, Norway. Notably http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/12/america-abroad-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-8908209494254335009Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:36:00 +00002008-12-04T09:47:02.464-05:00 On highway 61, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul, I decided to get lost. It was an off day and I didn't really know where to go or what to do, so I just drove and ended up in two small towns in the delta, Rolling Fork and Carey. Since I collected interviews for this piece I'll leave it at this and let the people of Mississippi speak for themselves.http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/12/highway-61-mississippi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-8465695095698613832Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:55:00 +00002008-12-04T10:00:20.392-05:00depressionHempsteadHoly Apostleshungerimmigrationrecessionsoup kitchenunemploymentThis series came about from one thing leading to another. I traveled to Hempstead, Long Island because immigrant laborers who once had jobs working cheap labor no longer even have that.Starting at 6 in the morning workers from South and Central America start lining up in front of the Home Depot on Hempstead, Long Island with the hope that they will find work. In more recent times cars or truckshttp://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/11/hempstead-long-island-chelsea-nyc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-3664915769391100947Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:51:00 +00002008-12-04T10:01:01.019-05:00christlerdetroitfordgeneral motorsgmhaloweenpovertyravesexteenteenagersIn the midst of the crumbling buildings, the fear gripping the auto industry, and the general decay of Detroit, I happened upon a rave.I was in Detroit on Halloween and ended up in an old factory building that used to make car parts and bodies and then B-17 wings for the bomber known as the flying fortress. The building, like many others in more alive cities, has been converted into lofts for http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/11/haloween-detroit-mi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-1243851700578941211Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:32:00 +00002008-12-04T10:01:37.182-05:00christlercrimedetroitfordgeneral motorsgmhaloweenpovertyIt's 5:54 am. I'm in a dark motel room in the Shorecrest Motor Inn in Detroit. Can't sleep. Despite the long day's drive and 5 beers last night the smoke from the previous guests in here makes it heard to breathe. Unlike all the corporate hotels that line the interstates, I feel the presence of other people in this motel. Years of guests' perfume lingers, I see traces of their outbursts left http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/11/detroit-mi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816045006129836171.post-6549241144143132520Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +00002008-11-30T14:36:52.190-05:00civil rightselectionHarlemNov 4November 4ObamaHihi all,This blog has been a long time in coming and with the election over wanted to get this up sooner rather than later, so apologies for the roughness of the site. For the past 3 months I've been traveling the United States, from route 61 in Mississippi to the burnt out shell of a city in Detroit. While I'm elated that we have such a new and energetic opportunity with the change of White http://downtheroadinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/11/november-4-2008-harlem-ny_06.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (jake price)0