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.
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.
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