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Waiting/Room
In my explorations of the soon-to-be-demolished auditorium and coliseum, I saw these chairs queued up behind the auditorium. They were tagged and awaiting an auction to determine their new location.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.24.2018
Ghost-light
Ack! What is that thing fleeing the grasp of the mirror?!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.11.2018
Closer to the light
When you were a kid, did walking across metal grates make you nervous? Does walking across metal grates STILL make you nervous?
(For a hint about my answer, see the toe of my shoe on the very far right side of the image. I was safe from the Grate Monster.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.7.2018
Detritus
In addition to liking to find stacks of chairs, I also like to nose around the backs of places: I’m interested in seeing what sorts of random things are kept and try to imagine why they are there. This was a particularly interesting set of crap.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.7.2018
First Aid
For various reasons, mostly related to inertia, I haven’t been out shooting many new images lately. Fortunately (depending on how you look at it), I have quite a few images left over from a big documentary project I did in 2018-2019, so for the next few days, I’ll be posting some of the images that didn’t make the cut for the show.
In 2019, the 1950s-era Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum were demolished; I was able to have full access to the facilities during the last year they were operational. It was a wonderful opportunity to document the place that held a lot of my childhood memories.
One thing I didn’t have a memory of – fortunately – was the first aid room. What I like about this image – but what I barely noticed when I made it – is the way the paint is worn away from the right-hand side of the passageway, showing decades of foot-falls in exactly the same spots.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.12.2018
