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Dead K Mart #1: Parking Lot
This is the first in a four-part series of images of the out-of-business K Mart here in Lubbock.
The store closed late last year, one of 64 stores that were closed nationwide. This one does still have a dumpster and a mailbox, though the reasons for them are unclear. Wait! I just realized that I didn’t look inside the dumpster…it’s possible that I missed something important. But probably not.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.12.2017
cross/cross/window
One of my work friends, who often serves as a location scout for me, told me about this town. It’s nearly on the Interstate – close enough to have its own exit but far enough way that drivers don’t have any real reason to take it.
Unless I’m the driver. Then I’m pretty happy to be able to get off the highway and go for a bit of a wander in a town whose better days are long in the past.
Ranger, Texas
photographed 11.23.2016
The stardust seems to be missing
Travelers who had their hearts set on a restful night at the Stardust Motel are just not in luck, are they?
outside Marfa, Texas
photographed 7.11.2015
P.S. One of my regular followers asked what this looked like in color, so here you go:
Ice plant (no longer)
This old ice plant is one of my favorite finds in Marfa. The photo’s three and a half years old, though, so the place is probably a gallery or a boutique hotel by now. Or, maybe, both.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
Corkscrew and a bird
Usually, cotton gins aren’t right there in the middle of town. But this one is. Who knows why.
But anyway, the auger makes an interesting, undulating corkscrew-shadow on the corrugated metal walls, while one bird looks on. (Trust me on this: there were a lot more birds. It was somewhere approaching horror-movie levels of birds. Good thing for me they are camera shy.)
Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.14.2012
