Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - February - Closed businesses

2018 – February – Closed businesses

The new challenge features closed businesses and other closed or closing commercial activities. When a shop closes, a change is happening. Gentrification, change in demographics, different consumers trends, evolution of technology, removal of not-so-old architectural styles (before that they are considered valuable for preservation), catastrophic events... a closed shop or workshop can symbolize all of that.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout February UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. February 2018 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

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• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

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Examples

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  People waiting for the shop to open on V&D's final sale
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  Defunct video rental in Zagreb
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  Burgos
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  New Orleans
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  Amherst, NY
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  Levels, West Virginia
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Entries

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  Closed shop with graffiti
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  An abandoned shop in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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  Sewing machine shop, closed maybe forty years ago, France
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  A service station that has gone out of business.
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  Abandoned filling station in Jaillon (Meurthe-et-Moselle
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  Shop for sale in Bergerac (Dordogne
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  Closed railway line in Nancy
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  Closed shop in Brussels
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  Cars to be renovated on the railway siding in Behringersmühle
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  Factory hall before the demolition
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  Sanatorium du Basil, Stoumont, Belgium
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  Dismantling of the old pier at the seaport
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  Dismantling of the old sea pier.
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  Abandoned Osteriola restaurant in Granarolo - Bologna (Italy)
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  Closed shops in abandoned building in Granarolo - Bologna (Italy)
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  Abandoned building Khimtextilmash (Chernihiv)
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  Abandoned building (Kyselivka, Chernihiv Raion)
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  Closed textile factory (Novhorod-Siverskyi)
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  Closed Khimtextilmash (Chernihiv)
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  Magasin abandonné à La Rochebeaucourt, Dordogne, France
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  Venezia, Cannaregio
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  Closed mini market in Essen-Margarethenhöhe
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  Closed rotary ironing shop in Essen-Steele
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  Closed department store in Berlin
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  Cafe 50s in Venice, CA-Closed due to fire
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  Die Talsperre Euba wird heute nicht mehr genutzt.
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  Old highway A4 which has to give way to the opencast mine ( Kerpen Germany )
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  Летнее кафе зимой
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  Tante-Emma-Laden
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  Closed gas station in San Francisco
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  Закрытая аптека
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  Медицинская клиника переехала
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  Alsergrund, Wien
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  Closed shops in abandoned building in Avenida dos Aliados - Porto (Portugal)
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  A closed hotel in Palermo - Italy
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  Images from before and after the Closing of the last remaining Zweitausendeins store in Frankfurt am Main
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  White's Grocery, Dogtown, Mississippi
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  Boundary stone at the former German-German border at Point Alpha
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  Closed shop with decorated windows in Rome
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  The casino in Boten, Laos, which got closed after trouble with chinese visitors.
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  A closed Hotel in Boten, a town in Laos bordering China.
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  The building where used to be a iron foundry, Varnsdorf, Czech republic
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  Geschlossenes Lebensmittelgeschäft
  Closed grocery store
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  Geschlossenes Ladengeschäft
  Closed retail shop
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  Geschlossenes Geschäft mit verwitterden Rolläden
  Closed shop with weathered roller shutters
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  Geschlossenes Geschäft
  Closed shop
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  Dockery Service Station, Dockery, Mississippi
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  Room in the water treatment plant of an abandoned steel factory in Oupeye, Belgium
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  Inside the water treatment plant of an abandoned steel factory in Oupeye, Belgium
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  Abandoned Chertal steel factory in Oupeye, Belgium
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  Closed wine shop (Normandy, France)
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  Altes Stellwerk bei Bingen am Rhein.
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  Bahnhof Lugau, Empfangsgebäude (2018) in Sachsen.
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  Geschlossener Laden auf der Pflockenstraße gegenüber Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz/Erzg.
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  Schlecker ist für immer zu. Aufgenommen in Oelsnitz/Erzgebirge.
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  A closed shop that used to sell coffee in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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  A closed gift shop in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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  Closed bathing establishment for winter floods, Italy
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  An abandoned tram an Parapiacaba, Brazil
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  Inside an abandoned railway carriage at Paranapiacaba, Brazil
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  An abandoned steam tram at Paranapiacaba, Brazil
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  The former winding station of the Serra Velha between São Paulo and Santos, Brazil
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  The building where used to be a slaughterhouse, Varnsdorf, Czech republic
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  Former Collins Company Collinsville CT
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  Closed ceramic store in Hallein, Wichtelhuberstraße 16, Salzburg (state), Austria
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  Closed dancing cafe "Frohsinn" in Bad Gastein, Salzburg (state), Austria
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  Closed hairdresser`s salon in the center of Bad Gastein, Salzburg (state), Austria
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  Closed restaurant inside the railway-station of Bad Gastein, Salzburg (state), Austria
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  Part of former railway workshop Vaso Miskin Crni, Sarajevo
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  Abandoned store, Tazewell County, Virginia
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  Handing out window of a former Italian ice cream maker in Germany
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  Abandoned factory of peat products in Estonia
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  Closed basement bar in Estonia
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  Finnish fishing boat Emma is abandoned or for sale, as its owner moves
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  Closed Chinese restaurant in Finnish village
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  Generators of the abanonded power plant in Peenemünde, Germany
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  Rusty billboard of a long-ago pub in Wies, Austria
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  Former peat coking plant in Elisabethfehn, Germany
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  Abandoned gasoline price board in Büren, Germany
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  Ruined factory building of the VEB Mewa in Leipzig, Germany
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  Shop window of a former butcher's shop in Zeilitzheim
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  Closed automobile plant in Eisenach, Germany
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  Former veneer company, Hamburg
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  Closed shops in Weimar, Germany
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  Closed bakery in Bad Kreuznach, Germany
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  Closed shops at Tel Aviv central bus station
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  Closed shops in Dorsoduro, a non-tourist but authentic district of Venice
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  Empty closed shop, France
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  Maison des Boucheries, Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (Puy-de-Dôme), France
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  Ruins of the Hay Market in Kyiv, Ukraine
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  Abandoned Munden Store in Pungo, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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  Closed tobacco shop in Banyuls-des-Aspres, France.
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  A restaurant for sale
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  A closed sign
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  Former chair lift in Tyrol, Austria
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  A closed shop in Clapham
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