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Abandoned Death - Watson's Memorials - Denver, CO

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That locked up patriotic headstone wasn't intended as a political statement or anything. Just a happy coincidence? In June 2017, I was seriously planning the start of this blog. Part of that was finding even more material than when I was still planning stories for zines. Naturally, my very amateur photography efforts would need to venture further outside my normal routes to find new subjects. Quebec Street was road I rarely travelled. It was on the eastern edge of Denver, and I was rarely in that part of town, after around 1999. Laura and I drove south on Quebec in late 2016, and this building caught my eye. I didn't take a picture, since I wasn't prepared for it. But it stood out. Using all of my superpowers of "half-assed research", I found it was an abandoned memorial company.  Which made sense, because Fairmount Cemetery was directly across Quebec! Also in June 2017, I tagged along with Laura for her doctor appointment, one afternoon. It was in the new develop