Chriscrawfordphoto
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This abandoned gas station is on old Route 66 in McLean, Texas. The Tokheim gas pump was made in my hometown, Fort Wayne, Indiana!
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Todd.Hanz
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Pretty cool! we did the route 66 through Nevada and New Mexico, into Texas at Amarillo where we turned off a few weeks ago. Interesting road to say the least, some cool retro shooting was the norm.
I like the light and color, Chris. Amazing that pump is still there!
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
I have traveled through these areas many times, and am always amazed at how remote from civilization that many of them feel today, how dead the towns are without actually being ghost towns. People still live in these towns, but it is obvious that they were once much larger, more important places. I lived in New Mexico for a couple of years and always got the feeling that New Mexico was once a place of many people in large, prosperous towns. Today, rural New Mexico is nearly depopulated, dead. Half the state's population lives in one city, Albuquerque, and about 80% of them live in a string of towns along the Rio Grande that stretch north and south of ABQ, plus Santa Fe in the north. Most of the towns in the rest of the state are near death. I wonder what happened to them?
Also, the abandoned places. These places have sat empty for decades, and they're still there. In Indiana, it is rare for something to sit empty so long without either being renovated and used, or demolished. At least in the towns and cities. Things do sit empty in rural areas for long periods, but in our towns that doesn't happen. In Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma things in towns do sit empty for decades and no one cares to either make them useful or clean up the ruins and make the town look...not dead.
Also, the abandoned places. These places have sat empty for decades, and they're still there. In Indiana, it is rare for something to sit empty so long without either being renovated and used, or demolished. At least in the towns and cities. Things do sit empty in rural areas for long periods, but in our towns that doesn't happen. In Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma things in towns do sit empty for decades and no one cares to either make them useful or clean up the ruins and make the town look...not dead.