Body Slam
In the heart of the south and at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains sits a one room building that is home to the Wrestling Christian Federation. Local laborers, moonshiners and textile mill workers looking for entertainment take refuge at Friday and Saturday night wrestling shows. Rural Murray County Georgia may be miles away from big city influence, but these wrestling exhibitions are standing room only. The small one room building sits within a trailer park on a dirt lot littered with pick-up trucks and Dixie Flags. On hot summer nights, southern country rock melodies pump out of souped-up Novas and Dodge Dusters.
Death, Inc.
Kathy Jo Kadziauskas started her death cleaning company AAA Crime Scene Steam and Clean in 1994, she’s at the top of the list handed out by coroners and sheriffs. Kathy Jo charges $250 an hour. She cleans about 100 scenes a year, the majority of them suicides taking place between Thanksgiving and tax time.
Cold Foot
Coldfoot, Alaska population was at 10 at the 2001 census when these photographs were taken. Coldfoot primarily serves truck stop on the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. The world’s most northern truck stop has a restaurant and a small number of overnight accommodations. The Coldfoot truck stop was founded by Iditarod champion Dick Mackey who started his operation by selling hamburgers out of a converted school bus. Truckers helped build the existing truck stop and café by donating building materials.
Women in Prison
“In women’s prison we have a lower number of incidents, and less violent acts than you get at a male instituiton. The two largest problems that create violence are drugs and homosexuality. They’ll get into fights because of relationships that have gone bad or jealous lovers. Institutionalized men are more violent and are trying to kill one another where as women are attempting to disfigure each other with razor blades.” – Public Information Officer
Signs Followers
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:17-18).
Taxi Dancer
A taxi-dance hall is a type of dance hall where dancers, young women called taxi dancers are paid to dance with male patrons. The owners of a taxi-dance hall provide music and a dance floor for their patrons and taxi dancers. Taxi dancers typically earn on average 48 cents a minute while dancing and socializing in the dark and private section of the dance hall.
Mad
Harbor View Mental Facility
Go Greyhound
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