Infrared Hot Springs

One place I've wanted to take the new infrared camera is to Hot Springs. Way back in the olden days, I took a bunch of pictures of Hot Springs on infrared black and white film. It would be interesting (to me at least), to see how the pictures taken now compared with ones taken way back in the year 2000 (which you can see here).

So one day my wife and I headed down to Hot Springs for a few hours. We parked the car and I headed off to take a few pictures while she had a leisurely stroll down Central Avenue perusing the shops (which was the better option, since all those places had air conditioning and it was already nearly 95 degrees outside). Here is a view of the old Medical Arts Building, which was built in 1929 and has been almost entirely abandoned for the past few decades. Amazingly, someone has bought the building and plans to convert it into a hotel.



I walked over to a paved trail that runs up the hill by the display spring towards the Promenade. It was shady and slightly cooler here amongst the trees.



And then back to Bathhouse Row, which was fairly crowded with people along the sidewalks. I waited for gaps in people to get a few pictures of the bathhouses, framed by the magnolia trees along the road. Here is the Quapaw Bathhouse, built in 1922:



And the Ozark Bathhouse, which was also built in 1922:



And the view of the Quapaw Bathhouse dome, from the Promenade:



And then one last shot from this visit, of the old Tom Moore cigar ghost sign. The sign is on the side of a building that was built in 1891.