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Day 162 — Cube

Ben Hillyer, 2014

Ben Hillyer, 2014

Ben Hillyer, 2014

Ben Hillyer, 2014

This is the remains of the office my wife worked in at the end of Green Street — which was the office for the old box factory that used to sit in what is now the Isle of Capri Casino parking lot. It has been many years since a fire gutted the building leaving nothing but charred remains and a the original concrete vault. For years the site was a pile of rubble leftover from the fire. I decided to venture down to see what is left and discovered that crews from the National Park Service cleared everything but the vault — now a small ruin surrounded by an overgrown landscape. 

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Day 160 — Fill 'er up

Ben Hillyer, 2014

Ben Hillyer, 2014

I remember my dad using these types of gasoline pumps to fill up the family Buick. Those days are long gone. 

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Day 159 — Hello gorgeous

Ben Hillyer, 2014

Ben Hillyer, 2014

I was walking back from shooting the Ironmen sporting clays tournament when I spotted this fancy bird admiring his reflection in the bumper of a pickup truck. The bird spent several minutes staring. 

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