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Ghost Street |
I've driven on Highway 285 through Vaughn, New Mexico - south of Santa Fe - on my way home to Roswell many times. On trips home from college, we used to stop at a little cafe - that's no longer there - for cherry pie. We'd chat with the State Police, who also usually stopped there. It's the last stop before Roswell, which is ninety miles southeast. But as many times as I have driven through Vaughn, I never realized that there was an old deserted Main Street a few blocks away from the highway. Last time I drove through, I cruised around the back streets of this little town, looking for interesting photo opportunities and discovered this pleasant old deserted former downtown street. There was plenty of parking, so I stopped for a while, checked out the old buildings and shot these photos. - MF
The
overhang has not been repaired lately. So, if it rains, you will want
to stand somewhere else.
While
cities pay a lot of money to landscape Main Street sidewalks, nature has done
it in Vaughn - for free. |