Small Town USA
It is totally fun to drive through mid-Texas because it is so rural and just so, well, Texas. On our way to Austin there were all these awesome signs and sights I so wanted to pull over and take pictures of but we were on a time schedule and couldn’t stop. Of course it was a lot more difficult finding the same awesome sights on the way home, for some reason, but I got a few pictures to share with you:
Here we have a very appetizing meat market. Is it me or does this look like a steaming pile of shit? Oddly there are so many meat markets like this right in the middle of nowhere. Must be all the cows. This was one of the least appetizing, though
Next we have the awesomeness that is Frappuccinos, Smoothies and Chinese Food. Why not, right?!
And finally, my all-time favorite…. drum roll please……
Because you never know when you might crave a crueller with a side of clams!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
We drove 290 west this past weekend and love the names of the little towns. DH and I decided we now needed to live in Dripping Springs, TX (or Drippin Springs as I am sure it is said by the locals :))
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Nicki reply on June 4th, 2008 9:33 pm:
haha - I always say I want to move so that I live on Riley Fuzzel just so I can say it all the time!
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June 4th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Matt’s home town has this chinese place called “Wally’s Chinese Restaurant”. I laugh everytime we drive by it! hehe
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Nicki reply on June 4th, 2008 9:32 pm:
Haha - I bet that’s some authentic food!
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June 4th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I really, really LOVE stuff like this. It’s the small things in life that amuse me, I suppose. My top two favorites that I’ve personally seen are…
#2… In Andover, a little town in Vermont, there is a used book store called “Over Andover Used Books.”
And coming in at #1 from Baton Rouge, LA is… are you ready?…
Jeff and Jessie’s Full Gospel Beauty Salon
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Nicki reply on June 4th, 2008 9:32 pm:
OMG, Susan, that’s hysterical!!!!!!!!
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June 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I personally love all the wig shops that used to dot Woodward
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I saw some pretty interesting stuff on a cross country trip of the USA back in 1999. Teeny tiny towns in the middle of nowhere, with really interesting stuff like you’ve posted here. The weirdest was this one horse town in remote Montana, they must have had like 5 taxidermy stores. 5? It’s *that* big an industry in *that* town that they need 5!?
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June 5th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Donuts and Seafood? I want to puke. I still love the fact that my town has an autobody/shoe repair shop. Someday I’ll figure out a way to get a picture of it without starting the small town gossip mill working overtime about “those strange new folks”.
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I love all the signs but I am pretty sure that I would not eat at a place with donuts and seafood in the same place! Now I want to visit TX myself!
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am
A town I used to work in has a Video Renta/Tanning Salon. Video equipment and naked tanners..seems like a recipe for disaster.
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June 5th, 2008 at 11:21 am
darn, i can’t load the pictures. i’m dying to see them! i’ll check back later…don’t worry, it’s my computer, not yours.
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
HAAAA. donuts and seafood?! nasty. or-as a say when something is really foul-Narsty.
there is a restaurant near sewanee called the four seasons. the last time we were there there was a huge sign that said-’Four Seasons Restaurant-Closed for Summer’.
ok, not an odd combination like yours, but still funny.
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June 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
LOL @ Riley Fuzzel! I had forgotten about it until our little adventure on Tues:)
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hilarious! I love the sign with the steaming pile of shit. And yes, you’re right - that’s exactly what it looks like. Gross!
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Donuts & Seafood
what more could you ask for. Fun captures.
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