This used to be a fancy hotel, with conference and banquet rooms and an atrium and all that stuff. A few years ago, we spent the night there when the dust from a home renovation project got the better of us, and it was clear that it wasn’t the place we remembered. The best amenity we got then were what I called “exfoliating towels” which were made (I am almost positive) from sandpaper.

And the slide down continued, and now, here we are: it’s being demolished. No word on what’ll be taking its place.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.15.2020