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Jan. 6th, 2006 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundHere's some more old building shots, this time from an abandoned stone service station between Barstow and Victorsville, Southern California desert, on what used to be US Highway 66, (the famous Route 66). (Taken August 4, 2003)
To the lower right you can see the concrete pads of the service bays.
Interior Shot. Think about it. Before the interstate, thousands of cars came by this station. Many stopped for gas, oil, water, directions. Many to start new lives, new directions. Thousands of stories, lost to time.
The old and the new, remains of the station, framing my car. What would the mechcanics of that day done when confronted with the computer-controlled, fuel-injected, 16 valve, plastic-sided wagon that is my Saturn??
Another Interior Shot, of the station
Interior of one of the homes next to the station. Housing for the owner and workers? What stories are lost to time here??
The remains of the station again, breaking down into the desert sun
This is plywood covering one of the main building bay windows. Countless visitors have left their mark on it. You can't really see it at this resolution, but the writing in the lower right hand corner is a URL for a German website on Route 66 (http://www.route66-deutschland.de/)
To the lower right you can see the concrete pads of the service bays.
Interior Shot. Think about it. Before the interstate, thousands of cars came by this station. Many stopped for gas, oil, water, directions. Many to start new lives, new directions. Thousands of stories, lost to time.
The old and the new, remains of the station, framing my car. What would the mechcanics of that day done when confronted with the computer-controlled, fuel-injected, 16 valve, plastic-sided wagon that is my Saturn??
Another Interior Shot, of the station
Interior of one of the homes next to the station. Housing for the owner and workers? What stories are lost to time here??
The remains of the station again, breaking down into the desert sun
This is plywood covering one of the main building bay windows. Countless visitors have left their mark on it. You can't really see it at this resolution, but the writing in the lower right hand corner is a URL for a German website on Route 66 (http://www.route66-deutschland.de/)
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Date: 2006-01-06 07:23 pm (UTC)A bit late but Happy New Year.
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Date: 2006-01-06 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-07 06:50 am (UTC)I was listening to that today on the way home.