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Urban Grit: post your pic here :-)

I thought it would be nice to start a thread featuring urban grit shots.

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I have tons of photos of urban grit, it would take me a while to sift through all of them so here are just some recent shots


This building is now torn down, but it was in downtown Htown




Houston


Cairo, Ill


Cairo


North St. Louis


North STL


Grit in a small Chinese town north of Qingdao


Grit in a now torn down Hutong in Beijing in 2007


Completely abandoned downtown Helena, AR


And one last one for now, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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Interesting, this scene looks practically identical to an area of Kansas City.

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Interesting, this scene looks practically identical to an area of Kansas City.
That's Monroe Avenue, just south of Madison Ave.
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Houston



Atlanta



Augusta - an entire thread devoted to its grit



Birmingham



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