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Not even new releases could save it
It seems so archaic, thinking back on our old Friday night ritual of going to Blockbuster to try to find a movie to rent. One we’d both agree on. One we hadn’t already seen. One that was still on the shelf.
So it came down to this.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.31.2017
Pull
It was a nice afternoon – warm and sunny with no wind to speak of. So naturally my thoughts turned to, well, abandonment.
I headed over to look at a store called Savers, which I’d heard was going out of business. When I got there, I knew right away that I couldn’t get the shots I wanted because it was next door to a Dollar Genera (or a Family Dollar – who can tell them apart?), so there were too many cars and people around.
Lucky for me, though, I was close to a shopping center that had some vacancies.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.31.2017
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Things move slowly around here – there’s almost no change to this old place in the five years between photos..
Floydada, Texas
photographed 3.25.2017
Spatula
One of the great mysteries that I encounter every time I peek through a dirty window into an abandoned business is what sorts of things were left behind.
A spatula, this time. And a heat lamp.
Did someone intend to come back and get the rest of their things? Or did they just say fuck it and walk away from their failed business, hoping that maybe on another day in another town, they’d get a new spatula.
Floydada, Texas
photographed 3.25.2017
Ethanol, fourth
Without any frame of reference, these dunes of millet could be dunes of anything. And located anywhere. It was oddly disorienting, because I was literally a few steps from the road.
But I liked the feeling.
(This is last of the ethanol plant photos. For now…)
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 3.19.2017
