Yes, I have been processing and preparing many new photos, most taken in obscure and until recently inaccessible regions of Lubbock's downtown. Every time we go downtown we see more to photograph!
Here we are, at Ave. L and 19th, heading toward downtown!
Downtown Lubbock is mostly old and decayed.
It is home to many law offices, bail bond offices, the county and city jails, the courthouse, and the Police Department. Also, now you find a fledgling "arts" community, luxury townhouses and condos and a few restaurants catering to the legal crowd. There are a few antique/boutique type shops, too. My wife bought me a nice beer mug in one of those shops. And I bought her a small cobalt glass vase.
But there are lots of old buildings in sorry states of repair.
There are surprises as well, like this old Packard...
I hope everybody has had their fill of old house. At least, of this particular old house.
In the same neighborhood we found a car with BIG WHEELS!!
It amazes me to think that somebody actually thinks this car is cool. In fact, it is stupid. It is an old car with over-sized wheels and it is a death trap. The handling must be terrible. It must be used to cruise slowly through the hood. It must be used to look BAD. It DOES look bad. It looks like crap.
Who is up for more old house? Of old house we have more here!
Do not push and do not shove, for we have enough old house for all!
This probably is not the doorway to your fondest dreams... oh no! It is more likely to be the door to somebody's nightmare. Don't go there!
Here in Lubbock, Indiana is a much-traveled street, and many of us have seen this place. We decided to take a closer look. It is abandoned, as far as we can tell. Its condition is very, very, bad.
Yes, just a few more pics of things here in Lubbock, Texas, and some pics of new guitars.
UMC/TTUHSC is our vast medical complex consisting of a teaching hospital associated with Texas Tech's School of Medicine, and Lubbock's County Hospital. They are back to back and constantly expanding, and they are major employers here. Quality of care is absolutely top notch. We are fortunate to have this in Lubbock. I show only a tiny glimpse of some new construction in these pics.
This is an area near the vast, sprawling, TTU campus.
We are north of 4th Street and west of University Avenue, in a largely Hispanic part of town.
I found this Epiphone Les Paul jr. in a local pawnshop and got it for $75 "out the door". I like it. It plays great and sounds fine. In the photo below you can see how I had to set up the bridge in order to get good intonation. It would have been better if the bridge had not had the raised saddles. A simple Gibson style "stop" tailpiece would work better as a bridge.
Below, is my new Squier VM Mustang in Sonic Blue. Great tone! The rosewood neck is so dark it looks like ebony, and I like that too. This guitar reminds me of one I saw in Harrad's Music Store, on Avenue Q here in Lubbock years ago when I attended what was then Texas Technological College. I was shopping for a guitar and could have gone for the Mustang but I chose a Candy Apple Red Fender Jaguar instead. Mistake. The Jag was too much guitar for me at that time-- too much finesse required. Over the years I had many opportunities to buy a Mustang but never did it until now. I'm glad I did!
And the guitar above is the Squier 20th anniversary dreadnought I found in a local pawnshop several years ago. Solid spruce top, nice tone. This one was $100 "out the door". I always haggle over prices when I find something I like at a pawnshop. Most of the time they are eager to get rid of it and will take a reasonable offer. That's how I got my Jagmaster. They'd had it on the shelf for a while and I believe they sold it to me after I offered them $90 plus the sales tax. That, too, is a very playable and satisfying guitar.
Here we are, at Ave. L and 19th, heading toward downtown!
Downtown Lubbock is mostly old and decayed.
It is home to many law offices, bail bond offices, the county and city jails, the courthouse, and the Police Department. Also, now you find a fledgling "arts" community, luxury townhouses and condos and a few restaurants catering to the legal crowd. There are a few antique/boutique type shops, too. My wife bought me a nice beer mug in one of those shops. And I bought her a small cobalt glass vase.
But there are lots of old buildings in sorry states of repair.
There are surprises as well, like this old Packard...
