Going Going Gone
by Christopher McKenzie
Title
Going Going Gone
Artist
Christopher McKenzie
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
OK, this looks more like a social media post than it does �Fine Art��however this image ties into my more artistic piece �A Sign of the Times�, so it seemed relevant.
I was asked to assist a co-worker across town, so loaded myself into the car and threw my camera along �just in case�. As I drove past this old nostalgic movie theater sign (just a few blocks from my home) I saw workers in the process of dismantling it.
I quickly pulled over, threw my sunglasses aside, grabbed my camera, dropped my cell phone in the snow and ran over and snagged a few photos just as the sign was coming apart!
The crazy part is that I had just 48hrs before captured �A Sign of the Times� and had just uploaded that image 12hrs prior to the workers taking it down!
If it had not been for my co-worker asking me to leave my house I would have missed the de-construction of the iconic sign.
And, I found out from one of the steel workers that the sign is going to be re-used at a theater location across town owned in part by the same group of people.
Soon it will be erected at a shopping & arts center called �Englewood Station� which is in Independence, Missouri.
The Englewood Theater opened in the summer of 1949. The new theater featured a new technology for Englewood � air conditioning, and also included plush seats, new sound, indirect lighting, a crying room, and more. The Englewood Theater has also been closed for some time now, but recent area revitalization and now the acquisition of the old Glenwood sign means that a re-opening should be forthcoming!
I can�t wait to see her lit up for customers once again.
ISO 400, 1/800 sec, f11, 20mm.
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February 5th, 2015
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Comments (4)
Lynn Sprowl
Ooh Christopher, it was a stroke of luck that you captured this. I would think that one of the local newspapers would love this and your "Sign of the Times". Both are perfect photos of our community. l/f
Catherine Sherman
Great capture of this iconic sign on its journey to its next location! Liked and favorited!
Christopher McKenzie replied:
We will of course miss seeing it in our neighborhood every day, but glad it will be put to use instead of getting scrapped.