No more Hooker Service

Two things I learned or had reinforced today:

 1. Shoot that picture now, even under bad conditions, because stuff happens.

 2. Don't Google "Hooker Service."

The Route 66 structure at 231 W 7th in Joplin, which housed the defunct Roma Restaurant and a Chinese place before that, was demolished January 18, 2016, to make a parking lot. I didn't know that was coming but I shot the place on the 10th of this month so I have it for my records.

I say "demolished" but what I'm thinking is "put out of our misery," for the building was once a beautiful garage called Hooker Service before its (1980s, I think) makeover into faux Chinese fast food architecture and later revamping to make it look sort of Italian.