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SAIPAN ODDS (and MAYBE A FEW ENDS) 2012, Gallery A

These are just locations and scenes around Saipan. While some may be attractive, these are primarily items of interest for reasons other than beauty. In fact, many of them are here more due to mystery, juxtaposition, humor, or novelty.
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Just off the road to LauLau, this drive way leads between two halves of an old, rusted gate to a grand old dilapidated building. I believe it was Ron Smith who told me about this place and that it was at one time a restaurant. I couldn't help but try to add a little "spookiness" to this photo with the color fading to B&W as you pass through the gate. "Brew-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa!"
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Just off the road to LauLau, this drive way leads between two halves of an old, rusted gate to a grand old dilapidated building. I believe it was Ron Smith who told me about this place and that it was at one time a restaurant. I couldn't help but try to add a little "spookiness" to this photo with the color fading to B&W as you pass through the gate. "Brew-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa!"

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  • Just off the road to LauLau, this drive way leads between two halves of an old, rusted gate to a grand old dilapidated building. I believe it was Ron Smith who told me about this place and that it was at one time a restaurant. I couldn't help but try to add a little "spookiness" to this photo with the color fading to B&W as you pass through the gate. "Brew-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa!"
  • Nice large interior for that great "open-air" dining experience.
  • The skylight adds a nice touch, don't you think?
  • Turn the kids loose in here while you eat and just forget 'em. They'll LOVE this play area!
  • This is the view just outside the restaurant.
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  • Nice little jungle fix-er-upper with natural insulation on the roof.
  • This is along our main road up north of Garapan. Looks to me like the sign is trying to tell us something about what caused its demise.
  • Now, also on the road north of Garapan is an old restaurant. Seems like I remember there being a sign on this when I first moved here. The restaurant was long-closed by then, but I think the sign said something about "88," like that may have been part of the name of the place. Anyhow, let's go in and look around!
  • This was quite a festive place, back in its day.
  • Fine art wall decorations blend well with the painted mural.
  • In fact, matching wall decorations on each side of the building!
  • Another one I couldn't resist: A sign broken in two with the largest, most prominent remaining word being what it has lost. Words are powerful.
  • Now here is a rather odd site.
  • This is just up the little dirt road which goes north from the Grotto road (it starts maybe 100 yards or so from the Grotto parking lot, I think).
  • When you walk these grounds, you can see that there were walls of some type surrounding the bed area. Somehow the walls (probably made of the corrugated tin sheets you see in the background) were removed (or were blown away, or somehow moved), leaving the beds exactly where they had been while this place was erect and occupied. Kinda weird-seeming, really. Oh well, pleasant dreams. I hope you enjoy sleeping out under the stars.
  • The basketball hoop next to the drive way (this is the road from the Grotto area you see here -- The driveway is out of the photo to your right) suggests to me that there were likely youngsters among the folks who used to live here.
  • A green tree skink (Lamprolipis smaragdina) inspects the sporting facility, likely on the lookout for insects. I guess one could say that when it comes to making THIS basketball hoop, whoever lived here NAILED it!
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