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Photos Capture the Nostalgia of Abandoned Americana

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Photographer Liz Roll photographs abandoned Americana throughout the country. The abandoned Americana she photographs include old cars, signage and abandoned storefronts. She found this old, abandoned bumper car pavilion at Glen Echo Park in Maryland. It was once a world class amusement park in the 1920s. (Liz Roll)

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Photographer Liz Roll photographs abandoned Americana throughout the country. The abandoned Americana she photographs include old cars, signage and abandoned storefronts. She found this old, abandoned bumper car pavilion at Glen Echo Park in Maryland. It was once a world class amusement park in the 1920s. (Liz Roll)

From rusting vintage vehicles to hand-painted signs and abandoned storefronts, photographer Liz Roll has captured a sense of nostalgia in her images of Americana across the country.

Roll focuses on photographing abandoned locations, and has shot images from Cuba to America's abandoned prisons. In this series, Roll's images feature the peeling paint and overgrown locations from a simpler time in the U.S., when small towns were the heart of America.

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Click through the images above for a trip through time and a brief respite from the modern distractions of 2019 America.