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Car Culture, two examples
Over there on the right side is a drive-in bank. Those are ubiquitous.
What caught my attention was the drive-through window at the mattress store. I am still trying to figure out the logistics of that.
But until I do, I guess I’ll just see this as an illustration of the car culture around here: why walk if you can drive. And why just drive if you can drive through?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.31.2016
Burritos at the Little Ranch
I’ve never eaten here, but it looks like the sort of place that has really good burritos. And also the outdoor seating is quite nice.
But the best part is the way the paint has faded on the plywood sign, revealing the wood grain underneath.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.31.2016
Mattress Alley
The alley side of the mattress store seems to be the place where excess inventory is stored. That seems a little odd to me, but the store’s be in business for a while, so who am I to question what’s working?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.31.2016
The Interim Fence
It’s easy to fall into the rhythm of the straight roads on the Plains. Fences flash by, post-wire-post-wire-post, in the endless pattern of ranch land.
Until the rhythm is broken by a flash that’s not quite right in a way that makes a photographer seek a place to turn around.
FM 7300
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.31.2016
The Hurt
After Hurricane Katrina, a lot of money went to rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, but the paths weren’t always easy to travel. New Orleans has always been a city built upon strong neighborhoods, each one distinct in important ways from all the others. This helps to make a vibrant city, to be sure, but it also makes large-scale redevelopment more complicated
The decisions that led to the closing of Charity Hospital, and the construction of a huge new medical complex in the Mid-City neighborhood was hugely unpopular with the residents, most of whom had been displaced by the storm and would be once again displaced by the construction project. You can read more about it here, but the short version is the phrase “closed-door decision to bulldoze a 25 block residential and business neighborhood” for the new facilities. Construction was delayed while that was worked out, mostly (from what I saw) in favor of the new hospitals.
There are a few of the old places still standing, including this one. I guess when you’re about the last one left, you may as well paint a sign on your roof, right?
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.8.2016
One Day | One Image 