Monthly Archives: January 2013
The refuge
I found this on my recent excursion in downtown Lubbock. I am not certain what The Refuge is, although it looks like it might be a place for broken or discarded office furniture.
This chair is obviously not feeling comfortable at The Refuge: it’s poised by the door, ready to make its escape….
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.6.2013
Looming over the field
This place looks like it might be a church. Or maybe it looks like the prow of a ship. It’s neither: it’s a business that provides uniforms and work clothes.
I like the shadows on the curved walls. I like the rough texture of the stucco. I like it that it faces a big vacant lot, giving it even more of that ship-like feeling.
East 8th Street and MLK
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.6.2013
Gulf Oil and a boat, twice
Abernathy, Texas
photographed 9.15.2012
Slaton, Texas
photographed 1.12.2011
Is this a thing?
Each of these Gulf Oil shacks has a boat parked next to it. I was poking around in the archive o’ photos the other night when I noticed this. I think I need to set out across the state (or even the country?) researching this to see if it IS a thing.
Both boats appear to have telephone poles sprouting out of them. What’s with that?
And on a sad note, the building in Slaton has been torn down.
A tidy town
I like the way the squares and rectangles in this building line up. But mostly, I like the use of different arches – a couple of high ones, a few lower ones. And it all combines nicely to be a very tidy building, and the citizens of Alliance, Nebraska, ought to be proud.
Other images from Alliance include the Zesto sign, some (mostly) vacant storefronts, and another tidy building.
Alliance, Nebraska
all photographed 10.23.2009
(Maybe I ought to go back to Alliance!)
Wingate, round 2
The second in a very short series* of shots from Wingate, another one of the little towns that gets smaller very day.
It’s not like it was ever that big, I guess; the population seems to have peaked at 250 in the 1940s. At that time, the town had a school, a bank, and a post office. In 1991, the school district was absorbed by another town. The population dropped to 132 in 2000, and it wasn’t even listed in the 2010 count.
Wingate, Texas
*Two
photographed 5.3.2009
One Day | One Image 