Around 5 o’clock in the afternoon I started to walk towards the now closed “Thelma’s Rib Shack.” On the way down there you start to see closed down shops and the occasional homeless man sleeping under the bridge. As I began to approach the store and began to observe the surrounding area I noticed there was a lot of “yellow tap.” Symboling to me that either there was unusual amount cut off sections of the neighborhood.
Entrance to Thelma’s Shack
The entry of the once known “Thelma’s Rib Shack” is met with a slightly rusted metal screen door. The window to the shack also seems slightly weathered from, but the words are still clearly visualisable. There appears to be some sort of picture that has been scratched off as well on the right side of the image. Maybe, due to weathering from the old age of the building or the lack of care that this place has received from being closed in 2012 unfortunately.
I began to pan around the building (noting the police and closed off streets). I noticed some wood damage and what “seemed” to me to be a grill of some sort. The graffiti on the pole made me pan my eyes towards it in complete curiosity. Most, of the graffiti on the pole, could be more related to playful with things written on it like “ATL” or “Pick up My New Mixtape.”
Another Side View
Side of the building
The further I went to the side of the building I noticed the “keep out” sign on the edge of the building. Which combined to the tape further down must have signed the danger hazard from the slowly crumbling building from abandonment. If you look closely at the photo “Another Side View” you can see the damaged roof starting to slope in the center slightly.
As I began to walk away from the 50-year-old building I took one last glance at Thelma’s Rib Shack and noticed that the color itself of the restaurant was completely different from any all nearby buildings. The color seemed to of popped in comparison to the other now closed shops. Even though the store was closed, it was great to take a step back into history and examine the past.