"I can sleep well at night," she said, "and I can walk away knowing I improved this airport 10,000 times over" from the ramshackle facility she found when she got there.
To friends and staff at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, that's hardly enough .You can knock this place down, I don't care," Evans told me, referring to the ramshackle facility itself.
It is a dirty, often muddy, dilapidated facility, with ramshackle overpasses and grandstands and an atmosphere reminiscent of that of May 13 , 1950 when it was the site of the first Formula One race, the British Grand Prix won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo.
The technician describes the ramshackle security arrangements in the facility, how and where H.E.U. is kept and transported from building to building by truck.
The facilities are a tad ramshackle and my Dominican guide spoke little English, but my chestnut rent-a-mare, Natasha, appeared healthy and the tack was in good shape.
He approached the Glentoran Community Trust, newly founded by supporters, for funding to provide accommodation - "a ramshackle building with the most basic of facilities" - and football training for homeless children, with fans sponsoring individual kids and the club's teams sending over spare kit.
From the outside, a series of unprepossessing studio buildings, some rundown and ramshackle, give little clue to the state-of-the-art technology and facilities at the UK's oldest studio.
SILVERSTONE, England — The racing facility here is dirty, often muddy and dilapidated, with ramshackle overpasses and grandstands, and an atmosphere reminiscent of May 13 , 1950 when it was the site of the first Formula One race, the British Grand Prix won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo.
Every hotel development here has ended up closed or abandoned, and although there are a couple of ramshackle bungalows and nature hostels, I have been warned to prepare for minimal facilities.
Ms. Lange and Mr. Rothstein, along with celebrated figures like Walker Evans and Gordon Parks, used their cameras to preserve scenes of winding bread lines, dirty-faced families in front of their ramshackle farmhouses or in jalopies with their possessions piled high, as well as the stark "colored" signs of segregated public facilities and somber black children picking cotton.
