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One of my work friends, who often serves as a location scout for me, told me about this town. It’s nearly on the Interstate – close enough to have its own exit but far enough way that drivers don’t have any real reason to take it.
Unless I’m the driver. Then I’m pretty happy to be able to get off the highway and go for a bit of a wander in a town whose better days are long in the past.
Ranger, Texas
photographed 11.23.2016
The stardust seems to be missing
Travelers who had their hearts set on a restful night at the Stardust Motel are just not in luck, are they?
outside Marfa, Texas
photographed 7.11.2015
P.S. One of my regular followers asked what this looked like in color, so here you go:
Ice plant (no longer)
This old ice plant is one of my favorite finds in Marfa. The photo’s three and a half years old, though, so the place is probably a gallery or a boutique hotel by now. Or, maybe, both.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
Corkscrew and a bird
Usually, cotton gins aren’t right there in the middle of town. But this one is. Who knows why.
But anyway, the auger makes an interesting, undulating corkscrew-shadow on the corrugated metal walls, while one bird looks on. (Trust me on this: there were a lot more birds. It was somewhere approaching horror-movie levels of birds. Good thing for me they are camera shy.)
Levelland, Texas
photographed 3.14.2012
All but one
This place. I have a strange fascination with it.
It used to be a fancy downtown hotel called (I think) the In Town Inn. It’s been mostly vacant since I can remember, but there are a few hints of its former grandeur. Ha! Ha! Of course there’s no such thing. It’s just another empty building. Its most recent reincarnation was a residential treatment center for people with substance abuse issues; that didn’t last, but the name it went by – the Jim Kimmel Center* – is still there.
But look at that wall of rooms. And lamps. Except for that one, lampless room.
Anyway, I really REALLY want to get in there and take a few (thousand) pictures. But I want to do it without breaking in or anything. I’m sort of legal, when it comes right down to it.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.5.2017
* I know, right?
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