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bar (b-que)
Yet another out-of-business place in town…but at least the sky was interesting.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.3.2026
beyond my interior walls
I’d been here a while and had already taken all the photos I thought I needed. But then, I sat on the bed of the truck and had lunch, which lined me up with this arrangement. Maybe a normal person would have finished lunch first, but I don’t have any experience being normal. So I (temporarily) abandoned a nice chicken salad sandwich so I could get this shot. First things first, or whatever. The food could – and did – wait.
Santa Rosa de Lima
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 9.19.2026
not the one you think
Arch. Saint Louis.
In addition to THE arch, I found these arches. Their job was to hold up a ramp into a parking garage, and as far as I could tell they were doing what they were supposed to do.
(The parking garage itself is abandoned.)
Saint Louis, Missouri
photographed 9.2.2026
tortilla
In downtown Saint Louis, one quarter of the block that’s bounded by Olive and Pine Streets and North 7th and North 6th Streets contains a surface-level parking lot. The rest of the block is a huge, vacant graffiti-encrusted parking structure. The street-side businesses are gone, with only a few reminders that you could, at one time, shop at Mr. Curry’s Indian Cuisine, the Olive Express Mart, Quizno’s, Nova Red Karaoke, Pharaoh’s Donut, the Edible Difference, or the Tortilla Grille (and other places whose signage didn’t survive). It’s sort of amusing to see the ghosts of these places that didn’t make it, I guess, but it sure does represent the lost dreams of a lot of small-business owners and their employees in a way that takes the amusement right out of it. (It was the Pharaoh’s Donuts sign, with a drawing of an actual pharaoh on it, that got to me.)
Saint Louis, Missouri
photographed 9.2.2026
awake
This parking structure takes up three-quarters of a block in downtown Saint Louis. There used to be shops and restaurants, and even a police substation, on the street level. All of it is gone now and even though there are FOR LEASE and DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY signs posted, things don’t appear to be hopeful.
There is a strong graffiti presence.
And in the quarter-block that’s not this giant ruin, there’s a surface parking lot with a security guard who will invite you move along when you step into the lot to take photos.
Saint Louis, Missouri
photographed 9.2.2026
