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Well, here I go again, looking in windows.* I love it that someone thought storing a tire and their gigantic console television inside an abandoned filling station was a good idea.

Alanreed, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021

*To be real clear here – I only look inside places that are obviously unoccupied. If I have the slightest idea maybe someone’s still using the place, I’ll keep moving. That’s just common courtesy, right?

Deer Chicken

Yes, apparently this place DOES have deer and chicken. Except that it does seem to be out of business. And also it does seem that some clever person amended the word “beer.” But other than that…

Yukon, Oklahoma
photographed 10.13.2021

left behind

Adrian, Texas, is the mid-point of Route 66. In case you wondered.

It also has this delightfully abandoned place.

Adrian, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021

there seemed to be a vacancy

Of course I took the time to look inside this out of business roadside motel. And, as long as my eyes and the camera were right there, I went ahead a made a photo. You’d worry if I didn’t, wouldn’t you?

Erick, Oklahoma
photographed  10.10.2021

Glancy

Oh, man! What a find! An out of business hotel, complete with a sign with a lot of fonts, a nice variety of shapes, and the relics of some old neon.

And this was a fun find: the Clinton City Council voted unanimously in August 2019 to have the building demolished. Apparently that didn’t happen,: in 2021 the Clinton Economic Development Authority authorized $7.75 million to renovate the hotel and an adjoining restaurant.

From what I saw, it’ll take every bit of that money to renovate the place, which had, according to the second article, “fallen into a deep decline.”

Clinton, Oklahoma
photographed 10.10.2021