Photos, videos and docs of Don Barrett (aka DBs travels), with the keywords: "graffiti"

Eureka diesel ?? (#1032)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:50:46 +0000

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This diesel, which was linked to the other three diesels when seen in the past, has now somehow been moved and the front carriage (?) has been removed. Given the condition of the locomotive, it seems odd that it would have been removed to be used for parts.

Eureka diesel grafitti (#1030)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:50:36 +0000

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Hitler? Branded with HBO?

Eureka diesel grafitti (#1029)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:50:24 +0000

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Eureka diesels (#1027)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:50:16 +0000

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This picture serves two purposes. It’s most basic is to link it with a set of pictures of locomotives that I’ve been photographing since 2004. The locomotives are leftovers from one of the iterations of the Northwestern Pacific railroad that once ran from Eureka down to the Bay Area. A storm washed out a key portion of the link in the 1990's, at about the same time the lumber/fishing industry was dying, thus the link was never rebuilt and these locomotives were stranded here.

Following is the oldest of my photos of these locomotives. In it and in a later photo, all four of the diesels were attached: Eureka, CA diesels 1125
Here’s the story of the Northwestern Pacific, including comments on efforts to revive portions of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_Pacific_Railroad

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More important for this trip, though, is what this location tells us about the displaced -- the homeless, the near homeless, the drug and mental situtations, that you see on the street. As I was driving into this area on the Eureka waterfront, I passed a large vacant lot with a smaller fenced-in area that appeared to have about 20 tents or tent-like setups, including shopping carts, bikes, and other stuff, within the compound. Considering the people who were in the area (it was around 8PM), it appeared to be people without stable residences, maybe a camp for homeless set up by the city.

Similarly, just after I had parked to take this picture, an older (maybe my age, 60’s) man in an older Subaru station wagon pulled up and parked about 2 car lengths behind my car. He smiled and waved, not as a sign of knowing or wanting to say something, but in the sort of sign people give to send a signal “I’m okay, you’re safe.” I continued to take pictures in the area and then, walking back to my car, I realized that he was changing clothes and getting ready to bed down for the night in his car. (Story continues with nearby #1033).

Landers graffiti rocks (0247)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:46:50 +0000

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Desert life beyond the graffiti rocks.

Landers graffiti rocks (0244)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:46:43 +0000

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Eye on the sky...

Landers graffiti rocks Green Hornet (0241)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:53:56 +0000

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Showing my age.... I initially thought this just an interesting piece of art, but found it to be a representation of the Green Hornet. From what I could find out, the Green Hornet was a crime buster in a TV series, but its a series I somehow missed. I worked nights in the years it was originally on, so know nothing about it. And, I have no idea why the icon is still popular.

Landers graffiti rocks Marine satire (0240)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:53:37 +0000

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Took this just because of the graphic, but turns out the story behind it is interesting. "Terminal Lance", with those symbols, is a comic strip satirizing Marine life that is published in Marine Corps Times. "Terminal lance" is also slang for someone who finishes their enlistment (terminates) as a Lance Corporal (E-3), which is a relatively low rank. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Lance

Landers graffiti rocks (0221)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:42:19 +0000

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And finally... art.

Landers graffiti rocks (0221)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:42:04 +0000

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Hopefully there's thought, not ignorance, behind the clockwise swastika which is the reverse of the Nazi (counterclockwise) swastika.

Landers graffiti rocks (0221)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:41:53 +0000

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I could excuse the 'livin' for 'living', but then they had to add in the 'Califoria'. Hopefully they'll either "never come back", or only come back after they learn how to spell!

Landers graffiti rocks (0221)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:41:43 +0000

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A fairly stand-alone collection of rocks just north of Landers that seems to attract a large number of people who want to announce relationships or something else.

Landers graffiti rocks (0221)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:41:29 +0000

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Rest stop among the rocks..

Yermo, CA (0186)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 08:40:25 +0000

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From a series of abandoned gas stations on the old highway through Yermo, CA.

Berlin neighborhood (#0109)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 21 May 2015 03:46:39 +0000

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Shaking fist graffiti, seen in multiple places around the neighborhood, on the u-bahn tracks over the Berlin-Anhalt railway (pedestrian) bridge.

Berlin neighborhood (#2243)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 21 May 2015 03:45:50 +0000

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Another view of the elegantly designed, and elaborately graffitied, apartment building near my hotel.

Berlin neighborhood (#2242)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 21 May 2015 03:45:28 +0000

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What interested me here was both the elegant design of the apartment building (see the adjacent picture), and the quite elaborate graffiti (see a larger version). The building is just south of where I was staying, next to the u-bahn track.

Berlin neighborhood (#0043)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:10:29 +0000

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A graffitied teapot and cup sculpture in a park/playgound behind my hotel.

Berlin neighborhood (#2704)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 18 May 2015 03:52:29 +0000

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Interesting, but graffitied, public art on the side of the housing complex at Mehringplatz, next to the exit from the subway portion of the u-bahn station.

SF Chinatown (1242)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:56:22 +0000

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Interesting graphics / street art on an alley just off Chinatown.