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This old house…
This old house is probably a Starbucks or a Walgreens or something by now. This picture was taken in 2008, on what was then the northern fringes of expansion of the Dallas metro area.
somewhere north of Dallas
photographed 3.15.2008
In the name of progress
The San Antonio Municipal Auditorium was being torn down to make way for its replacement. Or least part of it was being torn down: it looked like the old main entrance was going to be reused. At any rate, there was a lot going on the construction site, except for our Sunday-morning visit, when wall was quiet.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 11.27.2011
Two things about San Antonio
To me, the Riverwalk generally conjures up images of Mexican food restaurants by the water and about a million sunburned tourists working really hard at having fun.
There’s this other part of the Riverwalk, though, called the Museum Reach. It goes to some museums (weird, I know) and the old Pearl Brewery. There are not that many people on the Museum Reach, so naturally that’s the part I like the best.
The part I like the best, after this very nice shade structure, I mean.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 11.26.2011
*Why, yes, I do have the obligatory Alamo photograph! It’s right here.
The floor could use some work
To be fair, though, it’s not just the floor. The roof looks like it needs a bit of attention as well.
But at one time, this was a thriving business. It even had separate entrances for the drug counter and for groceries.
Maple, Texas
photographed 2.16.2014
The icehouse door
The bricks on this wall were going in every direction and I am pretty sure that the wall above the left-hand window is about to fall over.
The door to the icehouse was very interesting – it still had pieces of the old cork insulation stuck on it and the wood was nicely weathered.
Out in front, a sign said the place was open 8-5 Monday through Saturday. The condition of the place and a few other clues lead me to believe perhaps the sign is in error. But that’s OK – neither Donna Catterick, my companion on this adventure, or I would have liked stopping to take pictures if there’d been other people around. That’s how we are.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
