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Saturday, in advance of a nasty cold front, we drove East on 4th Street, to Acuff, home of the Acuff Steakhouse. I only found one interesting thing to photograph in this tiny, tiny, town. It was a FREE house, a house to be GIVEN AWAY to anybody who wanted it! Don't miss this opportunity!
There's a little, struggling, cotton blossom next door. As you will see in the future, this FREE HOUSE is partly furnished and even comes with a TV, although the TV is in the front yard, which needs some mowing.
We were near an abandoned community center, on Vanda Street. A lot of roads were unpaved, and there were many vacant lots, where homes had been torn down, one guesses. No sign of any new development, except for one, lone, newly constructed house, probably the work of an individual rather than a development corporation.
This is pretty typical of what you see in this part of town. Moving the city's Fourth Of July celebration to East Lubbock will at least force people to see what the "other" side of town looks like.
I saw nothing to be gained by photoshopping these pics. Except for one, this is just what you see.
The only people we met there were very friendly. That says a lot about Lorenzo.
On the other hand, when we visited Plainview we met several residents of that city, and I would describe each one of them as weird, without exception. Can that be mere coincidence?
The neat thing that happened to us in Lorenzo, we found a guy with a garage sale. Yes, he'd bought the contents of a storage locker and he was selling the stuff from his front yard. Actually he lived across the street but his garage was on the other side of the street. He had a couple of cute kids, a boy and a girl, who gave us the tour and their sales pitches were really good. We ended up spending five bucks for a turquoise necklace that seemed to be antique and a few music cds by obscure artists and bands. Not bad stuff. You can find those cds on line but you'd pay about ten times what we did. There was one by Paul McCartney I'd never heard before, or seen before, and he was the only artist I was familiar with.
There's a little, struggling, cotton blossom next door. As you will see in the future, this FREE HOUSE is partly furnished and even comes with a TV, although the TV is in the front yard, which needs some mowing.
