Saturday, March 06, 2021

Kentucky Fried Abandonment

Through a dirty window
London, ON
July 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram


The Colonel once sold chicken here.

Except Colonel Sanders wasn't actually a colonel, and this abandoned storefront had long ceased to be a place where anyone would want to eat the chicken. Or anything else, for that matter.

For years, the signs of creeping deterioration telegraphed the sad story of a sad restaurant, a place customers frequented because they had to, not because they wanted to. We never ate there, but the gap-toothed sign on the roof always caught my attention as we passed by.

Eventually and inevitably, it closed, and in doing so marked another chapter in our own timeline of life in this city we now call home.

It won't show up in any history books, of course, and don't hold your breath for nostalgically-shot and paced indie films chronicling the rise, fall, and eventual redemption of dusty neighborhood storefronts and indifferently run restaurants.

But it was still part of someone's story. Or a bunch of someones.

And in them, memories of life in this now-abandoned place persist long after the doors were locked for the last time.

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Tim is still dead, February 2020

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