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Where open doors lead
I don’t actually know where these doors lead. It’s all about the mystery.
Except for the part that’s about not trespassing.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014
Utility
What caught my eye initially were the boxes on the utility pole, the banged-up downspout, and the glass blocks in the window. But then, what had been just a blotch of paint on a pole started to look like a face…
McCook, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
The ladies’
My favorite thing is the lettering on the door; I especially like the lilting curve of the word “ladies” and the intertwined Os in “room.” It’s a little hard to imagine that the owner of this place (a service station when it was new), ordered up something fancy for the door, but maybe that is what happened. After all, it is right around the corner from the town’s museum district.
For the record, St. Paul is the first town on the road trip where we heard loudspeakers broadcasting local radio stations. We thought it was for some kind of special event (was there going to be a parade?) but then we heard the same thing in several other towns.
St. Paul, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Like draperies
The street side of this block houses a law office, an antique store or two, and the Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball (who knew?).
And, while that was interesting, as you know, I like to check out the backs of things. Otherwise, I would have missed the sad state of things in the alley, with that dumpster that left me wondering how the garbage truck got to it, the plastic sheets that’ve been hanging on the wall for so long they looked like tattered draperies, and the G.A., which might have stood for Go Away.
St. Paul, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Window Shopping, #2
I did a little more window shopping, this time in downtown Garden City, Kansas, where I found these half-clothed gentlemen. Well, actually they are half-clothed half-gentlemen, which if I recall the rules for multiplying fractions, would make them one-quarter gentlemen.
But at any rate, at least their waists will be comfortable.
Garden City, Kansas
photographed 9.1.2014
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