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Three flavors
Beats me. Maybe in the summer this car serves as an ice cream stand?
When I go someplace like Dime Box, where I’ve never been before, I have the feeling that everything has looked just the way I saw it approximately forever. (I know things have changed, of course, or all these old buildings that I find would still be pristine.) So, that car, with its numbered windshield, and the mysterious ice cream signage? Been that way for years. Right? So it was a tiny bit of a surprise to look at the same scene on Google Maps and notice that my perceptions are wrong.
Dime Box, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
Left
Left behind: flouncy curtains in a wood-paneled room.
Left behind: dreams that didn’t survive reality.
Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014
Trees like a cage
These trees are keeping the house from escaping. Or from falling down.
Pep, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014
Drawn by a five year old
You know the way little kids draw a house, with a square on the bottom and a lopsided triangle balanced on top? And a skinny chimney coming out perpendicular to the roof?
Except for not having a chimney, that’s what this old place looks like to me.
FM 836
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014
For safekeeping
The windows in what the old-timers must surely call “the Cadillac house” were broken, so naturally I looked in. And found this old truck, which was once important enough to store inside a building. I’d guess that the reasons for storing it have faded away and it’s there out of habit as much as for any other reason.
But it was a nice thing to see through a broken window.
Spur, Texas
photographed 3.26.2014
