Steaks and Chops Photograph by Terry Rowe

Steaks and Chops

by Terry Rowe

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Title

Steaks and Chops

Artist

Terry Rowe

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photography

Description

Vintage diner sign on an abandoned building in downtown Gary, Indiana, USA.

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, located in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area. Gary is located approximately 25 miles from downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation as the home for its new plant, Gary Works.

Gary's fortunes have risen and fallen with those of the steel industry. The growth of the steel industry brought prosperity to the community.

In the 1960s, like many other American urban centers reliant on one particular industry, Gary entered a spiral of decline. Gary's decline was brought on by the growing overseas competitiveness in the steel industry, which had caused U.S. Steel to lay off many workers from the Gary area. As the city declined, crime increased.

Today, Gary faces the difficulties of a rust belt city, including unemployment, decaying infrastructure, low literacy and educational attainment levels.

Downtown Gary was developed in the 1920s and houses several pieces of impressive architecture, including one (disputed) structure, the Moe House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and another, the Wynant House, 1917, which was destroyed by fire. A 6,000-seat minor league baseball stadium for the Gary SouthShore RailCats, U.S. Steel Yard, was constructed in 2002, along with contiguous commercial space. A significant number of older structures have been demolished in recent years, but a number of abandoned buildings remain in the downtown area, including historic structures like Union Station and City Methodist Church. A large area of the downtown neighborhood (including City Methodist) was devastated by fire on October 12, 1997. Interstate 90 divides downtown Gary from the United States Steel Plant.

Urbanex: Acronym for URBAN EXploration. The term URBANEX is synonymous with urban adventure and exploration.

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