Monterey and Caprock Centers were both on 50th Street. Monterey, was of course, nearest Monterey High School. W D Wilkins furniture is all that is left of the Monterey Center which included Hemphill Wells and Western Auto. I dated a Monterey high school girl who referred to Hemphill Wells as "Humphill Wells". In fact, I think all of the kids at Monterey called it that. Gee. What COULD they have been thinking? There is a plaque near W D Wilkins describing some of the history of the place. Both of these early Lubbock shopping centers featured covered walkways between buildings. There used to be store fronts on both sides of the walkways. Since there was really nothing left to photograph at Monterey Center, we examined Caprock.
There were storefronts back in here, once.
This is all open to the public and it's right next to Ci Ci's Pizza on 50th Street.
Not much of the original tile is left...
Bud's Men's Shop was part of Caprock Center. There might have been a Radio Shack.
A few of the original benches remain.
This was once Dunlaps.
This was part of Dunlaps. These were the first shopping centers in Lubbock and they were a big deal in their day.
Yesterday was bad, and I thought for a while last night that I must be getting even worse, but no. This morning, though weak, I feel definite improvement. I might even be able to go with my wife to our gym today. I might not be able to do much, but at least I'll be there. Probably did not have West Nile because of all the respiratory stuff. Maybe just a bad summer cold. I hate summer colds! And while the rain pours down again, most likely all weekend, with renewed prospects for local flooding and another surge of weeds and killer mosquitoes, let us examine another abandoned home we found a few weekends ago, way out on East Broadway:
This place needs to be bulldozed, and soon!
When I post here again, I will show what little remains of one of Lubbock's first shopping centers. I am old enough to remember them when they were in a state of decline. Today there's not much left. I got interested in them because my wife informed me that one of them had a Western Auto store-- remember those? They used to be all over the south. At an estate sale recently I found an old TrueTone guitar, which was a Western Auto brand. I got it for $45 dollars and restored it to playable condition. It probably came from that same old Western Auto on 50th Street. Without doing major work on that guitar I got it to play in tune all the way up to the 12th fret, which is good enough for a lot of music of the kind I like: folk, blues, country. It looks pretty good and sounds funky. The action now is comparable to that of a nylon string classic so I used light electric guitar strings to make it easier to play. I will post a pic of it, and some of my other guitars, soon. I've found some good quitars at very reasonable prices, on-line and in pawnshops. One of them really blew me away: A Glen Burton Les Paul copy. It was far better than I expected. I owned an old Les Paul Custom once, and this guitar is just as good, if not better. And it cost less than $200 with shipping! They also sell an SG copy and that is what I will get next, so I can do that AC/DC thing.
Not much time to take photos. This series ends at Erskine and Ave U.
Here in Lubbock, after so much rain, weeds and mosquitoes are out of control. I've been bitten so much, and I've felt so lousy lately, I would not be surprised to find that I've had a dose of West Nile or Dengue Fever. But I'm recovering, I hope. Yesterday seems to have been the worst, with flu-like symptoms and aching joints.
An example of neighborhood spirit, above...
We are near Erskine and Ave. U here. And we found an old SHACK!
Down by the railroad TRACK!
Klick KLACK!
Klick KLACK!
Right across the tracks from this terrific old ruin is the local Knight's Of Columbus headquarters.
These were taken on North University, Clovis Road, and on Erskine. In that general area.
Lots of automotive stuff out here...
Lots of businesses that came and went...
The weeds grow tall and the mosquitoes grow fat.
There were storefronts back in here, once. 
This is all open to the public and it's right next to Ci Ci's Pizza on 50th Street.
Not much of the original tile is left...
Bud's Men's Shop was part of Caprock Center. There might have been a Radio Shack.
A few of the original benches remain.
This was once Dunlaps.
This was part of Dunlaps. These were the first shopping centers in Lubbock and they were a big deal in their day.
