Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

John J. Welder Home carriage stone and gate post

Right on Main Street in Edna, Texas , the 1950 Edna Theatre:

... a.k.a. 25 neon signs part iv ... 1. Houston, Texas I begin this episode of Neonopolis with a sign I drove by for many years without ...

....or would it be more²? 1. Houston I found this one in a weed-covered, cracked cement parking lot, behind a row of abandoned commercia...

1. Pasadena, Texas Due to the the overwhelming response to the previous ....

1. Tyler There is something about a vintage neon sign that just thrills the heck out of me. I've driven a lot of Tejas (and elsewhe...

My dad took this picture of the Rosewood Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, during the '70s or 80s. The theater as pictured is long gone .

A couple of neon signs in H-Town :

That "SIMON" neon sign in April 2008....

So, the great old Mize Department Store (openened in downtown Nac in 1925, moved to its last location in 1961) has been closed for over th...

Main Theater

I just got a picture published (I guess that's the right word) in the current print issue of The Oxford American . The Oxford American ...

From whence I came: Carrizozo , New Mexico Vaughn , New Mexico Santa Rosa , New Mexico Tucumcari , New Mexico San Jon, New Mexico/Adrian, Te...

What has come before: Carrizozo , New Mexico Vaughn , New Mexico Santa Rosa , New Mexico Tucumcari , New Mexico San Jon, New Mexico/Adrian, ...