For years I've wanted to stop and photograph the burned-out ruin of Crawford's Convalescent Home on Kam Highway on the way to the Northshore, It finally happened! After a festive AWOL meeting in Kaneohe (AWOL stands for Artist's Way Of Life), Kris and I detoured home via Kaneohe Bay Drive and Kam Highway.
The building was a state home for wayward boys (What kind of images does that stir up?) when James Crawford purchased it in 1954 and turned it into a nursing home. In 1968, new buildings were constructed and this old building was abandoned. A fire gutted the vacant structure on June 18, 2002. Ten years later, this is what you'd find...
By the bus stop across the street sits another ruin.
Does anyone know the story behind it?
With two rooms, a large one and a small one to the side, it could have been a small store once. It does not have a roof anymore, trees are growing inside, and it's filled with trash. The one interesting thing about is that it sports some colorful graffiti.
Does the number indicate the year it was built ot the address number?
"A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history." ~ Abram Joseph Ryan
