We decided to get some more pictures in Slaton. You can get to the Slaton Highway by taking 98th West, and that's convenient for us, so we took that route and quickly found a detour. Lots of road construction. This is really out in the boonies. So we followed the detour signs and I took a few pics along the way. But the detours terminated at another dead end, with lots of road construction equipment in evidence. But we also found the ruins of something we had photographed a few years ago. It was a combo beer joint and "gentleman's club" and apparently it had burned in the meantime. Since we were going to have trouble getting to Slaton, we decided to stop and photograph these ruins.
Little did we know, that we would make an interesting discovery there, and uncover and preserve a bit of Texas history!
There is not much in this part of town I consider actually interesting, but we found these things recently, near Quaker and 82nd... that general area.
And here are some photos I took one evening of threatening clouds, just prior to a thunderstorm. There appear to be tiny motes floating around and I've concluded that the flash reflected from mosquitoes.
Wow. You never can tell what you might find behind a fence!
No, these are more pics from the poorer side of town.
Somehow, I just like this stuff.
Last Sunday we drove off someplace and meandered around in an area that contained both residential and industrial elements. I can't even tell you where we were, exactly. At one point I saw a street sign and it indicated we were at 23rd and B. So we were in that area, roughly, and that's where these pics were taken.
We had to have been near Tent City, because this old incinerator is a landmark near there.
We've got some evidence of flooding in what looks to be a big, illegal, dumping grounds well within the city limits.
Nobody in the city really cares about illegal dumping in this area because this is not where the "good" people live. In Lubbock, the "good" people are white and rich. In Lubbock, the white and rich are God's children. That seems to be the prevailing attitude...
Little did we know, that we would make an interesting discovery there, and uncover and preserve a bit of Texas history! 
