jesus sales

 

Thre 14th annual High and Dry Photography Exhibit has come to an end.  I was fortunate again this year to have an image selected.  Olton in Hale County qualifies as a "semi-arid" land - a qualification of the exhibit.  The unique business perspective of this place also appealed to the juror.

 

Olton, Texas

9.23.2014

tres madonnas

 

Corina died 22 days after her 10th birthday 40 years ago.  Someone still cares.

 

Olton Cemetery

Lamb County, Texas

2.15.2014

dead drive-in

 

As one approaches Olton, a tall structure looms on the horizon.  It's not a water tower or grain elevator--what can it be? Turns out it is a drive-in movie screen.  What does a landowner do with a defunct drive-in, especially when the screen is built with concrete blocks?  This landowner with the house next door appears to ignore it.  The former box office is now a carport, the parking area dotted with trees, the concession stand is slowly deteriorating and a fence surrounds the whole thing.  I don't know when the Mustang Drive-in closed; a "drive-in theater" website lists it under "dead drive-ins" along with Lubbock's Circle, Corral, Golden Horseshoe and Red Raider.  At one time, Olton was a swinging town with TWO theaters -- the Mustang Drive-in and the Roxy downtown on Main Street.  More small town history lost.

 

Mustang Drive-in Theater

Farm Road 168

Lamb County, Texas

2.15.2014