Monthly Archives: November 2023
best price
This was one of my favorite places on the Arizona part of Route 66: competing souvenir stores, with large (very) signage throwing shade at each other. Curiously, though, they each promised the “best price” so perhaps there was some price-fixing going on?
Route 66 – Allentown, Arizona
photographed 5.30.2023
trash
I know you’ve seen about a billion pictures of Cadillac Ranch (and if you haven’t just go ahead and Google ’em).
At this point, those old cars are mostly thick layers of spray paint instead of the namesake Cadillacs. And what the usual photos of the place don’t show you is the trash barrels that are perpetually full of empty spray-paint cans.
RELATED: if you position yourself downwind from the car-painters and their spray paint, it’s possible to get a contact high. I think.
Route 66 – Bushland, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
wilkerson’s place is melting
The New Mexico sun is hot enough and bright enough – or so it seems – to melt building materials. But really, it’s the infrequent rains that are dissolving the adobe walls of Wilkerson’s place.
Route 66 – Montoya, New Mexico
photographed 5.29.2023
windowsill flowers
I didn’t see all that much to photograph in Sequoyah (sorry, Sequoyah), so I stopped at this rock building, a church, and looked that the stuff in the windows and the other stuff reflected off the glass.
Route 66 – Sequoyah, Oklahoma
photographed 10.12.2021
couch
There’s an old couch underneath the even-older sign. I guess if you timed it right, you might be able to sit there during the few minutes each day when the couch is in the sign’s shadow. And who knows? You might even enjoy sharing the furniture with the resident vermin.
Route 66 – Sun Valley, Arizona
photographed 5.31.2023
One Day | One Image 