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Same town but a different toilet
Remember this photo of a toilet? This is another toilet, plus a random chair and a wadded up towel, from the same building.
The walls behind the, uh, seats are old – those narrow wood slats indicate that the original wall was plaster, which fell from use after drywall (or Sheetrock™) became the favored building material.
(If you want to know a LOT more about plaster walls, or any other building material, I can highly recommend The Walls Around Us, by David Owen. It’s witty and accurate, a winning combination if you ask me.)
(On another subject, I had a chat recently with the curator of the local photographic society’s exhibit. My Toilet.Seat. print was in the show, but didn’t win. The curator, whom I had just met for the first time, said, “Oh, your photo of the toilet was SO popular. Everyone loved it….well, everyone except the juror, I mean.” So, there you go: jurors don’t speak for everyone.)
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 6.16.2010
Do the math…
…you’ll save 60¢ on each meal with the #3 combo.
Or, to look at it another way, you can save yourself $14.99, since Burger Boy #2 appears to be out of business.
And, then, if you add in the savings in fuel costs by not even driving over there…well, you can see how the savings are just adding up.
East Broadway
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.1.2012
Trailer? Where?
Check this out: an abandoned trailer lined up on the horizon. And that post in front of it that’s lined up on the trailer’s door? Perfect!
I’m not trying to get all mushy and stuff, but when I see things like this, I know I am supposed to have a camera in my hand. I know I am supposed to be ever-watchful. I know I will average about 40 mph on road trips because I stop so often. And I know that, even as often as I’ve stopped, it still hasn’t been enough.
near Taiban, New Mexico
photographed 8.7.2011
But it doesn’t really matter, after all
Another commercial casualty in a town that’s got plenty of them. This was a place called Chinese Restaurant, so at least they had clarity of title working in their favor.
But it’s out of business, so that informative title doesn’t matter. And neither does the stern warning of NO FREE DELIVER.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.5.2013
Here are some earlier posts from the same town:
Howdy to you, too
Deserts and color
Quarters only
Dilemma
Tall signs can’t save commerce. Or themselves.
Less than it was
“Business route” is optimistic
November 11
September 6
September 5
(I rather enjoy Santa Rosa.)
Why there’s no photograph of anything famous
If you go to Marfa, you’ll see the influence of sculptor Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation. And if you visit the Foundation, you’ll have to agree, in writing, to not publish any photographs that you take of the various art installations. So, instead of seeing my shots of the famous 100 untitled works in milled aluminum, you get this: ruins of something that’s across the street from the Foundation’s headquarters.
(I don’t think I agreed to not publish any shots of the ruins.)
(And, anyway, I like this better than the milled aluminum boxes. Even though my photographs of them were quite fabulous.)
Marfa, Texas
photographed 11.12.2010
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