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it was as sad as it was predictable
It’s way it goes out here in these declining rural towns: eventually the cost of keeping a school district going hits the economics of ever-declining enrollments and before you know it, the schools have consolidated themselves into one county-wide district. And the former school buildings – no longer necessary – fall over or burn down or otherwise fade from relevance.
Pyote, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
pump jack
Maybe that pump jack back there behind the building renders the effort of keeping an out-in-the-country liquor store open unnecessary? Or maybe it depends on oil prices?
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 3.11.2022
LotLotLot (for sale)
Of course, when this town was settled and named Mecca, it was a name with great connotations, with grand visions of a beautiful life beside a thriving inland sea.
Now it seems sort of an ironic name.
But there ARE lots and lots of lots for sale.
Mecca, California
photographed 2.13.2022
Skeleton
Yes, I was very happy when our photography group leader not only drove us past this skeleton of an agriculture building, but then pulled off the road so we could photograph it. And my thanks to everyone else in the group who may not have been quite as giddy as I was, but were too polite to tell me they rather be anyplace else.
near Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022
in bottles
Goodness – there was a lot going on with that one vending machine. It had a water fountain! You use it at your own risk! The Cokes cost a dime! And they came in bottles!
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.11.2022
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