An Isolated Lubbock Neighborhood

This area is really off the beaten path! There is one narrow road in and the same road out. Yellow House Canyon snakes through one corner, but it is fenced and seems to be private property. 

 This bridge spans Yellow House Canyon at this point.

This is where you enter. You can easily miss this turn. There's no sign of any housing area here, and if you didn't know, you'd never imagine that the road would take you to a subdivision.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of illegal dumping here.

 Lots of wild flowers and weeds!

First thing you find is this abandoned American Legion post. My wife remembers, years ago, attending a wedding there. Nothing but ruins now.

I like ruins, however, and we search for and photograph urban decay.

There's plenty of urban decay in Lubbock.

Next, we see if we can get down into Yellowhouse Canyon...

 

Out In Lubbock County, South and East

And what do we find just outside the city limits?

We see STARS! Beer and wine, of course, what's left of it.

Ruins!

And at yet another location we found the ruins of Adult Entertainment.

We see ruins. We see desolation. We see Texas-- OUR Texas.
 

South Lubbock, Tahoka Highway, The Strip

We started poking around at what used to be "The Strip", and then we went elsewhere, taking county roads that only the farmers use.

Thousands and thousands of cars passed through here, for many years, while Lubbock made a pretense of being "dry". A joke from the first day.

Over the years, I passed through in a 1955 Chevy, a 1956 Chevy, a VW convertible, a VW Sedan, a 1965 Chevy Pickup, a VW bus with twin Weber carbs on a custom manifold, a Pinto Station Wagon, a friend's Corvette, a friend's hot rodded 1958 Chevy, a Big Chevy van-- the list goes on and on. Until there was no more strip. Sanity prevailed at last.

Does it bother me that there are liquor stores in town, that you can buy beer and wine in any supermarket? Actually, no. Not at all.

We drove until we fell off the edge of Lubbock.