Missing Tooth and Open Sky

m: 23rd Feb 2007 - 03:35 GMT

missing tooth....ow..I just had an implant done.

missing tooth architecture and dental work---both very expensive in the long run and not ever as good as what was destroyed..

upfromflames: 3rd Mar 2007 - 14:09 GMT

This emptiness of this space at the corner of Central Ave and Suydam St. is made more powerful by its cause. A friend of mine had an aunt die in a fire on this spot in the late 1970’s. The memories got too old, and her mother just threw out the charred remnants of her aunt’s sweater last year.

Another building stood on this spot for a few years, but it was vacant before long and has since taken down---for what, I don’t know. But for now, the empty space has been a woeful reminder—to those who remember.

M. Arena: 3rd Nov 2008 - 00:43 GMT

I have been taking similar photographs in this area for a while. I love the missing tooth analogy.

Mime: 3rd Nov 2008 - 10:46 GMT

This is right across the road from an Irish pub I used to frequent and across from the Marina. I think they're building a high-rise dwelling type structure "with ocean views" and all that shebang.

They moved a heritage listed old Queenslander-style backpackers' building and closed the mens' hostel down to make way for it. I haven't been there in months so I don't know how it's coming along.

The missing structures and memories that accompany them ache like a missing tooth sometimes. From cesspool to expensive luxury living... Humans. We're a strange mob, eh?

Peter: 19th Nov 2008 - 19:24 GMT

i just noticed that this post is of the same lot...

somehow, i didnt see this post the first time around... you posted it almost exactly 4 months before i moved within a block of this spot...