Acuff, East Of Lubbock

That is where we still are, taking pictures of that house, that used to be a home.

To paraphrase Bob Dylan, that's not a home, it's a house...

One thing for sure, it needs work!
 

More From Acuff, Texas

More views of that free (?) house:

I always wonder about the history of a place like this.

I had to crop one of the pictures below, because of a telephone number spray-painted on the house. I don't know, but it might be a working number and I don't want some poor soul to be inundated with calls from Ukraine, and France, and Malaysia...

I mentioned the Acuff Steakhouse yesterday. We've eaten there. It is not a fancy place. It is a sort of home-made looking place with a mixed bag of thrift furniture, serving food buffet style. Selection is limited and it is sometimes noisy and crowded. It is folksy, if you like that. And there is nothing wrong with the food. Very basic. Some people swear by the Acuff Steakhouse. It's a long way to drive for the sake of eating nothing special in a rather primitive and uncomfortable environment, in our OPINION. But give it a try.

 

East Fourth Street And Acuff, Texas

Saturday, in advance of a nasty cold front, we drove East on 4th Street, to Acuff, home of the Acuff Steakhouse. I only found one interesting thing to photograph in this tiny, tiny, town. It was a FREE house, a house to be GIVEN AWAY to anybody who wanted it! Don't miss this opportunity!

There's a little, struggling, cotton blossom next door. As you will see in the future, this FREE HOUSE is partly furnished and even comes with a TV, although the TV is in the front yard, which needs some mowing.

 

East Lubbock, Again

We were near an abandoned community center, on Vanda Street. A lot of roads were unpaved, and there were many vacant lots, where homes had been torn down, one guesses. No sign of any new development, except for one, lone, newly constructed house, probably the work of an individual rather than a development corporation.

This is pretty typical of what you see in this part of town. Moving the city's Fourth Of July celebration to East Lubbock will at least force people to see what the "other" side of town looks like.

I saw nothing to be gained by photoshopping these pics. Except for one, this is just what you see.
 

Finishing Lorenzo, Texas

The only people we met there were very friendly. That says a lot about Lorenzo.

On the other hand, when we visited Plainview we met several residents of that city, and I would describe each one of them as weird, without exception. Can that be mere coincidence?