Three flavors
Beats me. Maybe in the summer this car serves as an ice cream stand?
When I go someplace like Dime Box, where I’ve never been before, I have the feeling that everything has looked just the way I saw it approximately forever. (I know things have changed, of course, or all these old buildings that I find would still be pristine.) So, that car, with its numbered windshield, and the mysterious ice cream signage? Been that way for years. Right? So it was a tiny bit of a surprise to look at the same scene on Google Maps and notice that my perceptions are wrong.
Dime Box, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
Posted on April 15, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, dime box, dime box texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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My guess is that there are not a lot of ice cream lovers who frequent this place. Chocolate. Definitely chocolate.
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I think you’re right. Too bad, as I am sure the chocolate in particular is especially good….
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What strikes me about so many of these images is that they look like scenes from after the Apocalypse or in a sanitised version of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’. As if everyone has just been vapourised leaving their possessions behind. And I love the visual disconnect between the car and Ice Cream. How did that work?
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I see a lot of things that have the visual disconnect you mention! That’s part of what draws me to these fading places, I think, because I am intrigued by the forms that abandonment takes.
And I’ve been trying to make the car-and-ice-cream connection make sense, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful.
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In the google street view, what is that dark blue shiny thing in the rear right of this structure? Could it be a cooler, with ice cream in it? Maybe you have to walk past the car and plug some money in an ice cream dispensing machine. And the sign is necessary because who would have thought to look otherwise. And the numbers on the windscreen are probably the price, or book keeping, or something. Though I would have thought it would be dime, or too, no pennies, in a place called Dime Box.
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I don’t know what the blue thing is in street view. MelView failed to capture it.
Across the street from this place, in front of the bank, there’s a giant, wooden dime, inside a box. It’s…interesting. It’s…Art?
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