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If you commit to driving old Route 66 and you stumble upon a guidebook about that very thing and you have that book with you when you take the old road across New Mexico and you carefully follow the directions, you’ll find the old route turning under the current Interstate, making a pair of tunnels that don’t seem at all remote and murdery.
Palomas, New Mexico
photographed 5.29.2022
enforcer
This looks like a store that would have been fun to wander around in, what with the wallpaper and paints and whatever else they stocked. I was by there on a Sunday and assumed it was out of business. I mean – look at the place! Imagine my surprise when, just this very minute, when I was researching this post, that I found it online and discovered that it’s actually open six days a week (although just until noon on Saturday).
Obviously, I will need to go back to St. Louis on not a Sunday to check it out. I’ll let you know what I find…
St. Louis, Missouri
photographed 7.3.2022
fancy curtains
The Pink Elephant Antique mall is located in what used to be a high school; I didn’t go inside the mall but I did walk around it to see what was hiding from general view. And that’s how I spotted this door with some fancy lace curtains on it.
I don’t generally self-identify as being a person who’s dismayed by disorder, but will tell you right now that the lace going in different directions on those doors makes me feel very anxious. What kind of monster DOES that?
Livingston, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
all the saints are here
As I mentioned yesterday, I found the statue store right there on the main street of Benld, Illinois. Even though I have all the religious statues that I need*, I wish the place had been open: I would have liked to see this array of saints up close.
Benld, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
*Zero. I have zero religious statues. And that’s exactly how many I need.
camel
I didn’t know what I’d see that Sunday morning on the main street of Benld. Maybe a bank. Or a liquor store. Or two or three dollar stores. I surely did not anticipate a store full of weathered religious statuary.
But that is indeed what was there, one door down from Stan’s Barber Shop and across the street from the Hebenstreit Apartments.
You just never know…
Benld, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022
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