Posted August 22, 200618 yr I found some pictures online of Butte, Montana -- or what's left of it. While searching, I found an historical reference to Butte as once having the richest mining slopes anywhere. But when mining creates an environmental mess (I saw that it's one of the biggest brownfield locations in the U.S.) and the natural resources are gone, with little other economic basis for the town to exist, the place ends up looking like a ghost town.... An abandoned pit mine, where drinking the water is VERY hazardous! ... Abandoned strip mines... Abandoned mining rigs are commonplace.... A city that once had 115,000 residents is now down to about 35,000. While cities can be immortal -- if they are able to remake themselves for changing times -- they can also shrivel up and die. Butte sits as quiet testament to the latter... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 23, 200618 yr Those are some impressive red x's. I am guessing the city no longer exists.... Interesting that the pictures show up on my computer at home, but not here at work. Damn. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 25, 200618 yr The reason we see X instead of photos is that their website doesn't like hot linking to their photos. :| Images MAY NOT be "hot linked" from our web site. Hot linking involves copying the url of the image and then inserting it into your own web site. What happens then is that when your web page loads, the picture you are using is then called from OUR server, not yours. This is a significant drain on our server and will not be tolerated (it also greatly slows the loading of the image on your web site). Our web logs will clearly show when any image is being hot linked to. If we find a image that is being hot linked, we will either change the path of the image (resulting in a broken link on your web page) or substitute a photo that you probably do not want on your web site! So if you want to see photos of Butte, go to to http://www.bigskyfishing.com/Montana-Info/butte-pictures.shtm Or copy the photos from their website to your computer and then post them here as attachments (and await a PM from Grasscat saying that you're using too much of UrbanOhio's bandwidth. :-D)
August 25, 200618 yr It reminds me of Bluefield, WV. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 25, 200618 yr you could also try to host pictures like that on your host of choice, then pop them in the forum. however, that does not always work, sometimes the host services don't like to host other's pics. we do have victory in this case tho, my host imageshck accepts'm:
August 25, 200618 yr Sounds like the common....yet depressing story of small town America. Obviously Butte was a little larger than small-town America, but it also had more to lose....makes it even more depressing :|
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