I took these on at least two separate days, as the difference in cloud cover should make apparent.
downtown
former bank building
an old Sinclair service station
the white building in the center is the Masonic Lodge, c. 1884
former M.E. Moses store
Rusk County Courthouse, c. 1928 (Renaissance style)
Thomas J. Rusk memorial; he is buried in our Oak Grove Cemetery
looking down Fordall Street at the Rusk County Courthouse
former Palace Theater, c. 1931 (Art Deco style)
What a well-preserved town (relative to most of the destruction that tends to occur in Texas). Our old neighbor in Houston, where we lived in an unappreciated 1920's area (read: abject ghetto), just wrote me to say that a beautiful old house, which was full of exquisite woodwork and molding, across the street from our former abode, was demolished and replaced by 4 story townhomes, 5 to a lot. I pray there's a special place in hell for real estate developers.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty Texas sky, too.
Sounds like what you're describing there is "progress." It's a shame, but things age, things change, things fall apart. Sometimes it just makes more sense to tear stuff down, but not always. It kills me when it happens though.
ReplyDeleteThe real shame of it is that the new townhome is constructed of wads of spit-covered toilet paper, meanwhile what this ticky-tacky construction replaced would have stood beautifully for a hundred more years.
ReplyDelete"Spit-covered toilet paper"
ReplyDeleteYuck!
Oh life's ironies...