You've got to understand that New Deal is really small. There was not a lot to photograph. I did the best I could.
Last Sunday we tried to find what is left of the community of Lakeview, several miles from Petersburg. We found out when we got back home that we had driven in the right direction on the right road but didn't quite go far enough. We'll go back there again. Not much is left of Lakeview.
We all know where New Deal got its name. Yes, Franklin Roosevelt was one of this country's greatest presidents. It's just a shame he wasn't able to stack the Supreme Court, as he wished. His own New Deal really didn't go far enough. But he tried, and that's what counts. Today, the residents of New Deal are likely to spit in your eye if you mention FDR...
We are in NEW DEAL now...
I'll tell you this: you can get some mighty good BBQ in New Deal!
This is a spot close to a popular restaurant on the I-27 frontage road, near 50th Street.
Part of this building is still occupied, and part of it seems to have been wrecked when a car drove into it.
My wife used to live in Abernathy, when she was a girl living with her parents. The housing situation was so tight, all they could find to live in was a gas station! They converted it into a house, of sorts. Many interesting memories.
This collapsed farmhouse is at the very edge of town. In Abernathy you don't have to travel very far to run out of town.
After we got home we found this hot air balloon hovering overhead. By the time I got the camera it had moved farther away. It seems to have been launched from one of the parks near our house.
Abernathy goes on forever.
Or maybe it just seems like that.
The truth is, I'm about to run out of Abernathy. Then I document another little area of Lubbock, and then we move to New Deal, only about 7 miles north. New Deal is really small but the schools rate high and they've got a great BBQ and hamburger grill there. Best brisket I've encountered since the long ago days of Stubb's here in Lubbock.
Last Sunday we tried to find what is left of the community of Lakeview, several miles from Petersburg. We found out when we got back home that we had driven in the right direction on the right road but didn't quite go far enough. We'll go back there again. Not much is left of Lakeview.
