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let’s pray
This used to be a fancy downtown hotel, the In Town Inn.
These days it’s neither fancy nor a hotel, which is of course the very reason my camera and I paid it a visit.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.17.2022
dashboard
This stretch limo has been parked next to a vacant building for years. Both, of course, have their best days far, far in the past. I was downtown the other Sunday afternoon (you know why) and took a look at the limo; after all these years of kind-of seeing it, it seemed like it was about damn time I went in for a closer look. In addition to many pounds of bird shit splattered all over it, there was a nice array of a shattered driver’s side window, a felt cowboy coat, a bible, and Spanish dictionary, a red crayon, and a granola bar. That seems like a lot of narratives all congregating in one location, doesn’t it?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.17.2022
*UPDATE* Two days ago, I drove by this location and the car was gone. Good thing I finally got around to photographing it.
new forest, eventually, maybe
It’s going to take a minute or so, but maybe one day these little sprouts will turn into a forest…
Nambé, New Mexico
photographed 9.1.2019
St. Jude’s trash can
St. Jude, one of the more fastidious of the saints (I presume), has a specially-marked trash can. He’s going all-in with the cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness deal.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.10.2022
it’s in the details
The Statler Hotel was built in 1956, for the unbelievable cost of $16 million. It was a showplace of mid-century architecture, with long lines, geometric details, a teal-colored exterior curtainwall system, and (naturally) a heliport. It was the first building to feature piped-in elevator music.
It closed in 2001 and was nearly demolished in 2003, but fortunately that was avoided and a $175 million renovation restored the place to its previous glory.
Statler Hotel
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.9.2022
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