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…and the kitchen sink
This place really did have everything, including that enormous white thing and a sink.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 4.16.2017
Eventual destruction
There’s the kind of destruction that sweeps down from a cloud – a tornado or wind or hail or lightning. It’s here, then it’s gone.
And then there’s the kind that happens incrementally, so slowly that you don’t even notice it until it’s probably too late to do anything about it.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 8.15.2010
November 22
The town of Mineral Wells, Texas, was briefly famous for the healing properties of the local mineral water. Folks came to “take the water” and many of them stayed at the grand Baker Hotel.
The old place has seen better days.
Behind the Baker Hotel
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 8.15.2010
February 26
The back of the Baker Hotel is just as run down as the front.
It used to be a glorious place, famous far and wide for the healing waters, but those days are long gone. Or, as the song “Mineral Wells” says:
There’d be no healing return to the past;
the fountain of youth had dried up.
– Tom Russell
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 8.15.2010
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