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<title>Ventura Boulevard · the eulogy wall</title>
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  <div>
    <h1>Ventura <em>Boulevard</em> · the eulogy wall</h1>
    <div class="sub">storefronts still licensed · websites no longer answer</div>
  </div>
  <nav class="tabs">
    <a href="/">map</a>
    <a href="/timeline.html">timeline</a>
    <a href="/pantone.html">pantone</a>
    <a href="/headlines.html">voices</a>
    <a href="/tongues.html">tongues</a>
    <a href="/chains.html">chains</a>
    <a href="/atlas.html">atlas</a>
    <a href="/eulogy.html" class="active">eulogy</a>
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<section class="hero">
  <h2>They were <em>here</em>.</h2>
  <p>Every business below pays its tax license. Files its renewals. Has an address on Ventura Boulevard. But when you go to its website, no one answers anymore.</p>
  <div class="count" id="count">—</div>
</section>

<section class="field">
  <div class="stones" id="stones"></div>
  <div class="empty" id="empty" style="display:none">No ghosts on the corridor today. Either every site loaded clean or none have been crawled.</div>
</section>

<footer>The dead are still licensed. The licensed are still alive on paper. The paper is the only place they still exist.</footer>

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