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S&Q alley
I like alleys.
S&Q Clothiers has been gone for decades. After the store closed, the local community theater used the building for productions; the column located in the middle of the stage provided a challenge for directors. And there’s just not that many good ways to incorporate columns into stage productions.
The sign in the window that says, “Lala’s Two coming soon” has been there so long, we’ve lost hope that it will ever happen. Especially since Lala’s original location, just across the alley, closed down.
But meanwhile, in the alley, it made my day to spot this original S&Q sign above the doorway. And that’s why I like alleys.
Lubbock, Texas
With many toppings
This potato restaurant has been out of business for at least fifteen years, which gives you some indication of how fast vacant properties move in downtown Lubbock. I can remember eating here; it was so long ago that I was still wearing suits (with shoulder pads!) to work.
Odd that it couldn’t make a go of it, since they offered many toppings…and more.
along Broadway
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.6.2013
Looming over the field
This place looks like it might be a church. Or maybe it looks like the prow of a ship. It’s neither: it’s a business that provides uniforms and work clothes.
I like the shadows on the curved walls. I like the rough texture of the stucco. I like it that it faces a big vacant lot, giving it even more of that ship-like feeling.
East 8th Street and MLK
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.6.2013
Gulf Oil and a boat, twice
Abernathy, Texas
photographed 9.15.2012
Slaton, Texas
photographed 1.12.2011
Is this a thing?
Each of these Gulf Oil shacks has a boat parked next to it. I was poking around in the archive o’ photos the other night when I noticed this. I think I need to set out across the state (or even the country?) researching this to see if it IS a thing.
Both boats appear to have telephone poles sprouting out of them. What’s with that?
And on a sad note, the building in Slaton has been torn down.
A tidy town
I like the way the squares and rectangles in this building line up. But mostly, I like the use of different arches – a couple of high ones, a few lower ones. And it all combines nicely to be a very tidy building, and the citizens of Alliance, Nebraska, ought to be proud.
Other images from Alliance include the Zesto sign, some (mostly) vacant storefronts, and another tidy building.
Alliance, Nebraska
all photographed 10.23.2009
(Maybe I ought to go back to Alliance!)
