Hopped Into a Stolen Car and Took Highway 99 (56K warning)

Okay...not really, it was more Highway 400, 69, Route 55, and Highway 17. Nor was I hard up for cash that I spent all night selling cocaine and hash.

But rather this was my drive up North to Manitoulin Island last week, I hit up every abandoned thing I could find while enroute.

Most of these locations fell because cars and truck began to have increased gas milage, the large corporations moved in putting these "mom & pop" places out of commission. In the case of the two Nairn locations, a large Esso service station is located to both of these stations. The two Whitefish locations, located along Route 55 closed when Route 55 was created. Rt 55 was a former alignment of Highway 17, the new alignment is located a few kilometers north of where Rt 55 lays now.

Ojibway Truck Stop - Nobel, ON

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Random service station - Pointe au Brail, ON (I think...)

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Still River Truck Stop - Still River, ON

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Public Works Station - Whitefish, ON

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Penage Hotel - Whitefish, ON

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Imperial Service Staiton - Nairn, ON

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Nairn Service Station - Nairn Centre, ON

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Bonus points to those who get the song reference.

Nice use of lyrics for a thread title, the band name fits for the thread also with your taveling around shooting old gas stations.
Traveling Wilburys
tweeter and the monkey man
track 9
Jimmy B

Bonus points to you JimmyB.

Except I was listening to the Headstone's cover of the song. But close enough :D

Axle, nice collection of images of abandoned structures. I bet they would all have a story to tell if they could talk. We often forget, until we get off the 4-lane, the effect that the 4-lane had on facilities in small villages and towns that you had to go through before the 4-lane was built. Reminds me a bit of all the abandoned farm buildings you see on the prairies as small farms were consolidated into bigger farms and the buildings simply left to decay. Maybe that would make an interesting afternoon's shooting(!).

Cheers,

WesternGuy

Loved the shots(especially the old truck) and story..reminds me of
'Zen and the art of motorcycle Maintenance"

Great series Axle

Love exploring old ... run down ... abandoned places

Thanks for posting these