Home, home again:I nearly missed this ghost:The
Galveston Island on which I grew up once had a nice, upscale downtown shopping area, which included stores such as Eiband's, Nathan's,
McCrory's, and a Walgreens with a small, diner-size cafeteria. This is some signage from a department store of the recent past, Levy's.
Note the lit up statue on St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica.The neon sign by day: St. Mary's CathedralClarke & Courts sign from the 1930s. The "Strand Lofts" part is new.By day:One of, if not the last of, George Mitchell's Mardi Gras arches.By day, perhaps in a dream:This is beautiful:Still lovely, even in the day:Great old Wrigley's Gum sign, along with one that has been touched up on the
Dulitz Furniture building.
By day:And the old neon sign in front of the Elks Building:By day:Sunrise on the Seawall the next morning, when I drove to
Port Arthur (recommended by a blog reader), the subject of a future post:
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