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A bigger picture
Because we here at One Day | One Image try to provide as much information as possible (and some of it may, from time to time, be factual!), and because we were sure you’d want to know what the entire front of the building looked like, here is the whole thing.
And below, a detail from the window on the far right, which observant reader(s) will recognize from a previous installment here on the blog.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
Footprints
The Footprints sign left behind its own set of footprints, didn’t it?
Alpine, Texas
photographed 1.19.13
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
The old power plant
A couple of careers back, when I worked at an architectural firm, we were contacted by a man who had Grand Ideas. That happened a lot; in almost all cases the ideas were much, much grander than the budget.
So, this particular Grand Idea was going to be using this old power plant building as a gym. Nice concept, to renovate a building and give it a new use. Nice concept, too, to have a gym in downtown Lubbock. But that’s about as far as it went. Of course the money wasn’t there. Neither, for that matter, were potential members of the gym, since there really aren’t that many people downtown.
And now, many years later, the place is still there, still empty, still waiting on a Grand Idea that might actually work out.
But at least it’s got some interesting materials and shadows to photograph. (You can see the building’s previous appearance here on the blog.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.2.2013
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