cold beer

 

Years ago I did a photographic series on musicians, including Waylon Jennings.  Selling beer legally had just become an option for Littlefield and Waylon's brother turned his gas station into a liquor store/museum.  This mural of "no ordinary dude" is painted on the back wall of the station and I photographed it in 2007.  A recent trip through Littlefield found the mural faded with stuff piled up against it.  But you can still buy cold beer there.

 

Waymore's Museum and Drive-thru Liquor Store

Hall Avenue and Waylon Jennings Boulevard

Littlefield, Texas

1.27.2007

anachronism

Anachronism:  something from a different period of time
  1.  swamp cooler
  2.  aluminum screen door
  3.  phonographs
  4.  records
  5  a bustling downtown

305 West 4th Street
Littlefield, Texas
4.12.2014

church on basin

 

This church on Basin Street (not that Basin Street in New Orleans, but the one in Littlefield) is one of the defunct ones.  It's not as dilapidated as some of its neighbors but probably has not been closed as long.  The concrete ramp is interesting.  It probably pre-dates ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) because the slope doesn't meet ADA requirements.  Perhaps the ramp was built to make it easier for pallbearers to carry caskets in for services.  Surely it wasn't for little old ladies in wheelchairs--  making for speedy heavenly departures.

 

Church with no name

Basin and Elm Streets

Littlefield, Texas

4.12.2014



church doors

 

The doors of this abandoned church in Littlefield have not welcomed a congregation in years.  If the doors opened, parishioners would find only rafters fallen from the collapsed roof.  I realized that the right-hand door was a replacement but I pondered, puzzled, for a moment.  The door leaning against the wall looked just liked the left-hand door--how could that have worked?  Then I realized it was placed backwards.  The door mechanism was the give-away!  I wondered what the name for that piece of gear might be, and a diligent search rewarded me with "door opener." Such a mundane word for that equipment.  If you want to buy a "door opener" be sure to specify hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, left-handed, right-handed, non-handed, heavy duty.  The descriptors are more interesting than the name of the device.

 

Church with no name

Hilbun and Basin Streets

Littlefield, Texas

4.11.2014

sign of the cross

 

 

I surmise that the Primera Iglesia Baptista recently "moved" up into a building vacated by another congregation that also moved up.  Evidently the budget did not allow to replace the sign.

 

Primera Iglesia Baptista

Hall Avenue and 14th Street

Littlefield, Texas

no services on sunday

 

The small neighborhood on the north side of Littlefield once supported four or five churches.  Today three stand in disrepair.  I can understand a congregation disbanding and abandoning the building, but to leave the pulpit, pews and organ behind is incomprehensible.  I like the way the bars of sunlight and shadow fall through the roof.  And I like the repetition of the pulpit's cross on the chair cushion.

 

Church with no name

Texas and Martin Luther King Avenues

Littlefield Texas