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The remains of the gin
This abandoned cotton gin is right in the middle of town, just a few blocks from the county courthouse. It’s sort of fantastic looking, now, to people like me.
But, I feel bad for anyone who lived nearby – and there are houses just across the street – when it was operational. Cotton ginning’s a dirty business; at the height of the season, everything around is covered with so many fluffs of cotton that it looks like snow. It might sound sort of pretty, but it’s not. And it’s hard to breathe, too.
Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.14.2012
At the theater
The sign alone would have been worth a photograph. Add in the shadow…and I had to stop.
Turns out that the sign, for the Scott Theater (which opened in 1959), was a revolving marquee fashioned after signs at the New York World’s Fair. The sign weighed 5 tons, and was said to have cost $35,000. It was also said to be able to withstand winds of 130 miles per hour. Mr. Bill Martin, whose company designed and built the sign, said it was “the ultimate design for the future of all marquees.”
The theater closed in the late 1980s. And the sign hasn’t blow down yet.
Odessa, Texas
photographed 12.8.2013
Indoor plants
It’s just never a good sign when weeds are growing up through cracks in the concrete floor on the INSIDE of a building.
The back of this building is completely gone, and the front may as well be. But there’s a metal structure covering (what’s left of) the building. Someone thinks it’s worth saving, and I wish them all the luck. In the meantime, though, those weeds just keep on sprouting.
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.13.2013
This is the end?
Weeds encroach upon this abandoned farmhouse from one side and storm clouds bear down on it from another.
This may not end well….
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 5.22.2010
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