July 4, 2008

Good stuff in Grand Saline


I drove to Grand Saline on Monday, and here are some things I found there:

closed rexall drugs in grand saline
rexall neon sign in grand saline
firestone neon sign
coca-cola ghost in grand saline
grand saline "bull" durham ghost

I pulled over to get pictures of this abandoned gas station in Silver Lake on the way to, and as I left, Grand Saline. It looks like something one might find along Old Route 66:
abandoned service station in silver lake
side view of silver lake service station
old gas station next to highway 80

4 comments:

  1. Looking at these sort-of fossilized towns always leaves me slightly depressed. It sounds cliche, but they had character. Now, every U.S. town is becoming virtually identical a la Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Ruby Tuesday, Home Depot, etc., etc., etc.,... (sigh)

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  2. You're preaching to the choir! It's true, those very same businesses have sort of made everything generic and characterless. Progress?

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  3. Being a foreigner, I only know these places from American pop-culture. The last evocation of this lost world I can remember was Pixar's "Cars". It's amazing to think how recently these places were living centers of community.

    (Note: US spelling of "centers" - I'm learning).

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  4. I love Cars for that very reason. Only in a Pixar-animated film can we see that "lost world."

    Centres, centers -- it's all good;)

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