We got our fill of these ruins, but shortly found a Cadillac graveyard. We got permission to go on the grounds and take pictures. There were cars there other than old Caddys as well.
This transmission shop was located on the corner of Avenue Q and 19th for many years, until LISD finally harassed them into moving out on 98th Street. There is nothing at the old location anymore but a parking lot for LISD administrative offices. A more political and inefficient and top-heavy school system you would be hard-pressed to find. LISD pretty much sucks.
Old cars!
There are many more old cars to come...
Ruins hold a lot of interest for me. They don't have to be ancient, either.
I wonder about the people who lived/worked in these buildings...
There was clearly a fire out here-- was it arson? Did anyone care? All this stuff had been abandoned for years.
We took a good, hard, close, and personal look at these ruins.
These were among the more interesting ruins we have examined.
So when we finally got home I googled Fort Griffin and found an email contact. I sent a pic of the stone slab and described the place where we found it and the circumstances. We were contacted the next day and the upshot is that later this month a rep from Fort Griffin will arrive to collect our artifact and view the photos I took on that site. There might be a connection to a supply depot for Fort Griffen near Lubbock. We hope to learn a lot from this visit and we are happy to turn our artifact over to someone who can use it. We hope we've made a contribution toward increased understanding of Texas' history. Last Fourth Of July we returned to the site and took more photos. We hoped to find more artifacts but there were none.
At least we had a chance to explore these ruins more thoroughly.
We drove on a bit before going home to Google Fort Griffin... we took a couple of photos of the dam in Mae Simmons Park, and photographed some "big wheel" cars in East Lubbock. People really do stupid stuff with their cars. People who don't have much money shouldn't waste their money doing dumb stuff to their cars, in our opinion.
You know, you might as well take your car and paint a sign on it: "I'm STOOPID!"
This transmission shop was located on the corner of Avenue Q and 19th for many years, until LISD finally harassed them into moving out on 98th Street. There is nothing at the old location anymore but a parking lot for LISD administrative offices. A more political and inefficient and top-heavy school system you would be hard-pressed to find. LISD pretty much sucks. 
Old cars!
There are many more old cars to come...
