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Do you believe in signs? Sometimes they really speak to me. Other times, they’re . . . well, they may have a modicum of truth, but they...

Closed or open, since 1862. Come on in. Wear your shirt. Because we’ve got our rules. Don’t like our rules? Eat somewheres else. Ashes...

Neon Crossroads, 1980 by Jann Alexander © 2014 In 1980 at a mostly unmemorable crossroads, nighttime was coming on, and I was looking...

Smile for the Camera by Jann Alexander © 2014 It is human nature to smile for the camera. Or to stick out a tongue. Little Roper by...

See the USA by Jann Alexander © 2013 Don’t tell the folks at Rustoleum , but we photographers really like rust and are frequently...

The Train That’s Not Running by Jann Alexander © 2013 Ah, orange. Even when it’s fading away on an abandoned boxcar in a South Dakota...

I stumbled upon Jacob Bailey, aged 59 years and five months when he died in 1879, buried at land’s end in a tiny coastal Maine...

Show me something rusty, and I’m there. (With camera.) Pearls Before Lobster by Jann Alexander © 2014 Let me hasten to add: Rust is...

Deco Dazzle by Jann Alexander ©2012 It’s impossible for me to resist the marquee of an old movie palace. They’re relics of an era when...

Pearls Before Lobster by Jann Alexander © 2014 By Jann Alexander How one thing leads to another. Live and Cooked ©2014 I followed the...

Letters from Genesee by Jann Alexander © 2012 By Jann Alexander Letters from Genesee’s Past: It’s not often you score three times in...

Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2012 The small town of Terlingua, Texas, near the Mexico border, is a former cinnabar-mining...

Abandoned by Jann Alexander © 2014 Why am I so drawn to photograph abandoned places and things? My image library is overflowing with...

Texas Proud Since 1964 by Jann Alexander © 2013 Broken Spoken Here. The Broken Spoke offers dining, dancing and development. Owner...

Three Boys and a Polaroid  first appeared as the post, When a Polaroid Was Instant Gratification , at Pairings :: Art + What Goes With It...

Blessings at the Spoke by Jann Alexander © 2013 A broken-down bus that long lived at Austin’s famous honky-tonk shows some respect for...

First Encounter: Greetings from Austin, 2004 by Jann Alexander [Mural: Todd Sanders © Roadhouse Relics] It was still spring in Austin,...

Where the Elite Eat by Jann Alexander © 2103 What could be tastier on Mondays than 2 for 1 Burgers at The Elite Cafe in Waco, Texas?...

From Movies to Books by Jann Alexander © 2013 Americana Ad, Austin History Center When Austin’s Americana Theatre  held its gala opening...

Though the Terlingua ghosts are long gone, the visitors still flock to the town's Chili Cookoff and visit the historic final resting place