"To Kill A Mockingbird" Setting

Maycomb County, Alabama, the setting of the novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Described as a 'Tired Old Town' where 'In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks.' This photo above isn't the fictional town of Maycomb but instead a street in the town of Selma, Alabama. I believe that this photo of Selma could have easily been the setting of TKAM. When Maycomb is described you can envision sagging and unkept buildings and dirty streets. In this photo you can see that while the streets aren't quite made of clay but are indeed dirty. The streets have a very country aura to them that resembles the town of Maycomb.

This also relates to Maycomb due to the condition of the building, in TKAM they state that the courthouse sags. When I saw this image it made me think about how if something as important as a courthouse was unkept, then less important things would also be unkept. This image seems like it could be a depiction of a general store in the area of Maycomb, and just conjures up an image of a town deep in the South. 

This also reminded me that Maycomb is a small town and rarely has tourists of visitors. A tourist town in American such a Miami, Florida or San Francisco typically try to keep the area clean and visually pleasing, while in Maycomb there are no tourists or visitors to impress. Since the town of Maycomb has no one to impress they would have no reason to keep the town clean of aesthetically pleasing to the eye. So since there is no reason to keep the town clean and presentable I feel that this would be a great picture to describe the care or lack of given to buildings in Maycomb.