Monthly Archives: December 2024
reality can be too vivid
How can you go to Amarillo and not visit the Cadillac Ranch? It’s not that hard: you just don’t go.
But if your Thanksgiving travel plans didn’t work out and you’re bored at home and you decide to go to Amarillo because why the hell not and you’re going to have dinner at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, you may as well go all in and stop at the Cadillac Ranch* since you’re in town anyway. The wind was blowing approximately 1 million miles per hour that day**, so it was a brief visit but still…
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 11.29.2024
* Seriously, though – how many things can really be called a “ranch” before it starts to seem desperate?
**estimated
workplace safety in the 1950s
My dad was an engineer at Phillips Petroleum and evidently took his camera to work with him.
Check out the workplace safety provisions that were in use in the 1950s!
Phillips Petroleum
Borger, Texas
unknown date
leg show
There are several things here – a Folger’s can with a plant, a concrete porch, a washtub tipped up with water and something in it. And my mom, crouched there on the grass, doing…something.
My dad wrote “leg show” on the back of the photo, so while that’s amusing, it isn’t at all explanatory…
unknown location and date
scanned from vintage print
a very pale ada ruth
calm horseman
I don’t know – I just like the way this gentleman seemed so calm and yet in command when he was on that horse. And I love that he had a pen in his shirt pocket. And don’t even get me started on how his dusty black hat is obviously a work hat.
The horse, by the way, sold for $28,000.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.23.2024
One Day | One Image 