Shining

 

Rounding out photos of our oh-so-fab short road trip to see the sandhill cranes in Southeastern Arizona, here is the Hotel Gadsden in downtown Douglas. It's quite beautiful inside, but it was quite deserted two days after Christmas and was definitely giving off a bit of a Shining vibe...

Love the shoeshine stand and old phone booths!

And this is the Grand, a once-beautiful theatre downtown...apparently it last showed movies in 1958 (!); behind this facade the roof caved in and it seems to have fallen into great disrepair (not sure if the roof has been repaired or not). A local group, the Border Arts Collective, is seeking to rehabilitate it for adaptive reuse. It is so sad to see magnificent buildings molder and decay...