La Azteca

Another home, soon doomed I am sure.  This one is down on Delaware,

Star Motel Alamogordo

This old motel sits on White Sands.  It used to have wagon wheels on the front, and somewhere in my mind I always think of it as the Wagon Wheel motel.  I don't remember what it's name used to be.  It might have been called the Wagon Wheel.  I am sure someone out there remembers, if you do, let me know!

It looks like a Route 66 remenant, juxtaposed along more modern buildings.

You can see where the old vigas were. 

The purple doors are probably the most current update to the place.

It is a shame it is in such a state of disrepair.

Not the best photo, but you can see even less updates here.  I have a feeling it will be torn down before long and wanted to capture it before that happens.

Rock Building

The parking lot has encroached upon this tiny structure.  The streets have been widened over the years, swallowing up the front yard.  It is alone in its memory of what it used to house...  I imagine it was a business of some sort, maybe a store.  The lots in this old part of town are only 25 feet wide.  Some are being torn down and added to another lot to build one new home.  Not the gargantuan homes that you see on postage stamp lots by the beaches.  But reasonable homes.  I feel sorry that the cozy cottages by the shores are leveled for monster homes that dominate and bully the landscape. 

Geodesic Domes

We have several of these in the area. They were popular in the '70's. You can see them scattered about in the basin and in the mountains. Leftover from the hippie movement? Geodesic domes were invented after WWI, the most recognizable one is probably Spaceship Earth at Epcot which is an entire geodesic sphere.

Spider Building

This building was a bank for many years. It now sits empty, looking like a giant albino trantula. Fitting for our part of the world. I think it should be given new life somehow. I have never seen another one like it....