#1 Fans
Do you qualify as a #1 Fan of the Dallas Cowboys? No, I don’t either. But if we DID, this is where we could hang out. There are some rules, though, according to the numerous hand-written signs taped to the door. You have to be over 21 to enter. You have to fork over a five buck cover charge. And you can smoke only in “desenated” areas, which are further defined as “in back.”
E. Geneva Street
Slaton, Texas
photographed 1.25.2013
PS: My spouse suggested that this should post on Super Bowl Sunday, in honor of the Cowboys and their triumphant return to today’s Big Game.
Posted on February 2, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, slaton, slaton texas, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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I find the sign deceiving. I am a fan of cowboys (note small “c”) but I don’t like the Dallas Cowboys. The “and lounge” leaves a lot to interpretation, too. No offence but this doesn’t look like the kind of place I want to Lounge.
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There was not one thing about this place that made me think I needed to come back, with $5 in my hand for the cover charge, and check it out.
Also, I don’t like the Dallas Cowboys. Not one bit. It’s sort of not a popular opinion around here; I have other opinions that aren’t locally-popular either. You get used to it…..
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Melinda, I also find the photo of this windowless, fortress-like structure slightly disturbing, unable to imagine entering through this ‘impossible to miss’ star. Concrete block, empty parking lot, “AKA ‘The Spot'”, all a little incongruous, allowing me to imagine a roofless, open air patio instead of a lounge beyond these walls. Is it the fanaticism I can’t imagine that repels me? If so, that’s not all of it.
Generally, your photographs of solitary buildings demand I think (sympathetically) of people from other times and places, but the patrons of this place would be no friends of mine. It has that claustrophobic ‘if I got in, I might not get out’ feeling’. Great, great shot!
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John, sometimes when I am out taking pictures, I will find places that make me want to come back during their business hours to see what goes on, and maybe have a chat with someone I meet there. This place, though, did not give me that feeling. There wasn’t one thing about it that was anything other than unnerving. That star around the doorway, those claw-like hands pointing to the way in, the Dallas Cowboys shtick, all the rules posted on the door – every one of those things was creepy. I had the same claustrophobic feeling that you describe.
You’ll be interested to know that out back there WAS a large open-air space. It had a high wood fence (painted in Dallas’s blue-and-silver colors) around it, but I peeked through and saw big wood spools like electrical wire comes on used as tables, and street lights to provide lighting.
This place was odd; and of course I had to photograph it! But I don’t have plans to go back there again….
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The graphics are really the only good thing about this ‘place’. But I am not tempted. Somehow I feel the place is likely to under-perform.
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I guess there’s some population cohort that’s attracted to place like this. From the comments here, though, I’d guess “WordPress Bloggers” are not included in the group….
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