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Trying to save souls in a dying neighborhood, Salie Mae Corbett and Shieal Scott take part in a an open air revival on a vacant lot in LaVilla.

Dogs bark at a passerby as Diana Walker and Shantrell Davis watch from porch of the rooming house where they live.

Neighbors Dorothy Mays and Sandra Adams say a tearful farewell as Mays moves from the rooming house that had been her home for the past year.

Reduced to splinters, a block of rooming houses is cleared from LaVilla as part of the continuing redevelopment of the neighborhood.

The old train station, which was the economic engine for much of LaVilla until the 1970s, comes into view as the neighborhood is torn down.

Rob Jeans watches as Charlie Haury boards up a house after inspecting it for asbestos prior to it being demolished by the city.

rooming house residents watch as firefighters roll up their hoses in a downpour after putting out a rooming house fire on their street.

The late afternoon sun is all that enters the empty space that used to house a barber shop in the main business district in LaVilla.

The Masonic Temple, built in 1912, is the most prominent building in LaVilla, but the organization now draws members from the surrounding neighborhoods.

Old marbles, buttons, civil war era bullets, a 1924 trolley token and an old ink bottle are among James Mangham's finds from the torn up streets of LaVilla.