Until 1990, when Burlington residents approved a master revitalization plan (which was updated in 1998), the waterfront was a wasteland of abandoned junk and railroad yards, old oil tanks and closed utility buildings.
And on Bond Street, just up the road, the headquarters building of Marconi stands abandoned, the junk mail piling up behind its locked doors.
Then he looked across the street: Outside an abandoned house, junk was piled high, including broken furniture, cardboard boxes, pieces of wood, a pair of blue jeans.
Half the lab is piled with high-tech junk abandoned by a previous tenant.
So these bikes have quickly become street junk, abandoned and often unused, making it harder and more unpleasant to walk down urban streets.
When Mr. Graesser reached home, he pried the snake from his arm, and pushed it into an old nonworking freezer without a door -- one of many abandoned pieces of junk that artists at the park sometimes use in their work.
He collects packets of lost or abandoned snapshots from junk shops and trash bins, chooses those that interest him, and arranges them in cheap albums by theme: dozens of pictures of televisions, say, or middle-American dining rooms decorated for holidays.
The overgrown labyrinth; stone walls; the foundations of barns; a pine shack, collapsed; abandoned roads; a junk yard at the bottom of a ravine, a little village of bathtubs and glass bottles and old stoves and washbasins; dumped cars, a Plymouth of indiscernible vintage, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, its hood and trunk popped open, like an upturned deerstalker cap.
It's a watery junk yard, a place where people pay to abandon their old boats.
At the same time there is also something disturbing about the way people ruthlessly abandon objects in nature, and the volume and diversity of junk that has accrued out there.
Still: I'll stand on common ground with anyone who wants to abandon subsidizing the growing of corn, Big Food's production of junk and, ultimately, the undermining of public health.
