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St. Thomas, NV, is a ghost town located 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas, within the boundaries of Lake Mead National Recreation area. It was founded in 1865 and existed for more than 70 years until it was flooded by Lake Mead following construction of the Hoover Dam. St. Thomas sat underwater for more than six decades until drought exposed the ruins in 2002.

I took this photo in late 2018 looking east toward the Gentry Store and, behind it, the town's post office.

For those interested, I wrote a novel set in the town, Lords of St. Thomas (Amazon, Goodreads), that is based loosely on the final resident to leave the town in 1938. There is also a history book written on the town, St. Thomas: A History Uncovered, which I recommend!

Fwiw this might be an option in the future:

https://www.photopea.com/

Free, entirely browser-based. ISTR the author talking about it in Reddit in the past. I've never used it beyond taking a quick look at it, so ymmv.

Also, kudos to you for your pic! Loved the concept and execution! Literally did a squee and showed my wife, who has far more experience than I in such things. She liked it too :)

Read Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown. A tour of hell in the 1940's and 1950's by someone who grew up in Harlem. A remarkable book by a remarkable man. Drugs are not a wonderful thing.

I didn't downvote, sorry that happened

> I'll need some more explanation on the siphoning part

The link I provided above is a good introduction to the idea. Feel free to poke around that site, they really nail down how the American built environment is unnatural and unsustainable. TL;DR: Housing less people on more land is not economical and, despite what people think, suburbs and suburban living does NOT pay for itself and is subsidized by cities. Detroit is a prime example of this. The issues you mention are only present because Detroit is broke, not because the land Detroit and Flint exist on are somehow uncontrollable hell holes.

Anyway, you really need to look at the history of Detroit to figure out how the city got the way it did. Suburbanization and white flight is a huge part of it. Detroit was once the richest city in the United States, suburbanization helped kill it

Edit: Your final paragraph is loaded with dog whistles. Again, I implore you to read up on the history of Detroit and how it came to be the way it is. May I suggest Detroit: An American Autopsy?

This is just historically inaccurate, read up. Cars were treated as a nuisance only used by the rich and largely disliked, until the good ole auto industry bought everyone out

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394720245/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=a66ad700-22ba-4a2c-8440-358cf1b2ca08

Also Metro police are very uncommon, leading to rampant safety issues on the Metro. The app they tell you to use doesn't even work on many phones, and the number they tell you to call goes to voicemail (or at least it did for me).

I am a huge proponent of public transportation. My job is (in non-WFH times) a couple blocks from the Gold Line station, well within walking distance. In different times, I would take my car to the Gold Line stop near me, then use the Gold Line as the "last mile" to take me to work. My commute goes right through the area where this photo was taken (the tracks were just moved, not destroyed).

I stopped because I simply didn't feel safe. I watched people get mugged; I watched people get threatened with knives; I watched people smoking meth in the corners. And the Gold Line is the "good" Metro... the others are worse. Over the year or so I took the Metro daily, I think I saw cops... 3 times? Maybe 4? And usually they just got off at the next stop. Fares were never checked, and the amount of actual deterrence that took place was nil.

There was talk about going fareless on the Gold Line and turning the 210 into a toll road for the length of the Gold Line - in essence having people on the freeway pay the fares of those who took public transportation. I'd love to support such a measure... but I cannot, in good faith, recommend the LA Metro as a safe form of transit to a woman travelling alone.

Maybe increasing ridership will cut down on crime... but I think LA needs to take care of its mental illness issues and get them out of the Metro before we can really see any ridership numbers go up.

There is so much discussion about my (mis)use of the term "gentrification" here, that I want to clarify that this was not meant to state some kind of opinion. Besides love, gentrification is the main theme of the film and the city development, for better and for worse, in this area is apparent and well documented. I can highly recommend this book on the matter, which also contains a lot of 'then and now' photos.

There is so much discussion about my (mis)use of the term "gentrification" here, that I want to clarify that this was not meant to state some kind of opinion. Besides love, gentrification is the main theme of the film and the city development, for better and for worse, in this area is apparent and well documented. I can highly recommend this book on the matter, also containing a lot of 'then and now' photos.

There is so much discussion about my (mis)use of the term "gentrification" here, that I want to clarify that this was not meant to state some kind of opinion. Besides love, gentrification is the main issue of the film and the city development, for better and for worse, in this area is apparent and well documented. I can highly recommend this book on the matter, also containing a lot of 'then and now' photos.

https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Which-Stands-Reconstruction-1865-1896/dp/0199735816

such a good book. it is not just on the West but the West is covered thoroughly.

the whole Oxford History collection is awesome. highly recommended.

I grew up in VA, and I my gut reaction was to disagree, but the numbers back up your position. For instance here are climate statistics for

Washington, DC and

Charlotte, SC

And the chance of a summer day being muggy, oppressive, or miserable is shown as 17% in DC and 20% in Charlotte.

The old photo is taken from Trusadh, Series 9: 12. Cathair na Ceiltis/Glasgow University Gael Tales broadcast on BBC Alba.

It is viewable on BBC iPlayer in Scotland, England, Wales and the north of Ireland. Or worldwide with the use of a good VPN.

And Lincoln drank there...

>President Abraham Lincoln visited McSorley’s in 1860 after his famous speech at the nearby Cooper Union; the bar has a framed newspaper announcing his death in addition to a wanted poster seeking the capture of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/mcsorleys-irish-pub/

I bought my Plustek scanner in 2007 for my XP machine and it was awesome. It did 35mm and (with a bit of fiddling!!) 110 negs too. It now needs a compatibility program to run now. Scroll down for revues.

HOWEVER, Plustek do new versions.

What a great book. Welch seemed like an absolute ruin in the 80s, at least according to the part they lived in.

I suggest you check out Educated as well.

I'm in the middle of a very good book by Rufus Youngblood, LBJ's Secret Service Agent who was in the motorcade that day. He goes into pretty good detail about how things went down and the immediate aftermath and procedures. The whole book is very interesting, but these specific chapters have a very unique feeling to them.

I’m also fascinated by it. Have you read The House by the Lake? It’s a wonderful recent book, likely available at a library near you.