I’ve been snapshooting in East Dayton since 2005 and over the last few months have noticed a rise in graffti/tagging following the rise in housing/commericial abandonment.  It seems to have reached a new level of aggressivness in the past few month.

 

So, a brief gallery of the trashing of East Datyon.

 

In this case the owner might have been painting over tagging (circled area on the plywood), so the taggers decided to be more aggressive in their vandalism.  Note they avoided the firt floor and marked up the second.

 

 

Another case of the building owner trying to keep up with the taggers.  Looks like the owners  cleaned some stuff off the old store window

 

 

Good luck trying to clean that limestone water table.  Note the tags on the next door building at the edge of the pix.  There are tags in the alley between the buildings and all along this wall

 

(BTW, this was an old cigar box factory, for you history buffs)

 

 

When yr going to vandalize a house via tagging, just go for broke, huh?  (Nice touch with those attention flags)

 

 

Dayton Pride.  The owner doesn’t see fit to clean that stone top so why not screw it up even more with tags

 

 

 

 

Oy.

Damn it's spitting image of Franklinton. I've been on 3rd St. before, it was pretty rough.

I'm sorry, but sh*t like this feels like colonization by a hostile alien presence.

That's worst graffiti I've ever seen.  Where's the talent and clever location?  It's little kids trying to make it hood on aluminum siding.  Please.  Find an alley or railroad cut.  Do it well and the city may declare it historic.

 

It's like Nas vs Soulja boy.  David are you with me on this?.

Yeah. Or maybe Jay-z vs. Chingy.

LOL.  You're Right thurr!

lol!

 

funny bastard

chingy!

 

you know what? that last one is not the worst thing in the world.

 

it looks like a cool little historic old building & at least the owners didn't mess it up too much -- and they boarded it up tightly if they can't use it. i mean to go through that amount of trouble to side it at one time and then later to carefully board it up must mean they think it's worthy of being saved....and they're right!