Worldport

Major bummer that the Worldport at JFK is going to be demolished. I suppose it was pretty well inevitable given the space considerations at the airport, but it’s a pretty bloody cool piece of Cold War architecture. It’s also a good time to note that the National Trust for Historic Preservation named its 11 Most Endangered Places this week, including the Worldport. All are pretty interesting. I found the one-room Montana schoolhouses especially fascinating, given that you could probably just as fairly list the towns themselves these schools were in. Anyone who has traveled in the rural West, especially on the High Plains, knows these towns that are in complete collapse, some completely abandoned. The Rancho Cucamonga Chinatown House is pretty amazing as well. That, the Abyssinian Meeting House in Maine, and the Alaskan salmon cannery should be taken over by the National Park Service.