Some Signs Around Town

I don't know what it is but I love business signs. So I take a lot of photos of said signs. Doesn't matter what business it is. If I like the sign I will photograph it. So here's a few I've taken recently using Nikon's D700 digital SLR.

Click on the photos to see a full-sized version (greatly encouraged):

TEXAS TIRE CITY (pulled in here once to get a flat tire plugged. Great service despite the scumbag look)

FORT WORTH BOLT & TOOL CO. (located in a mostly abandoned industrial area near Fred's Texas Cafe)

SINGLETON'S BATTERIES (a dumpy place on Jacksboro Highway that gives off the aura of 'WTF?')

HENDERSON STREET BAZAAR (Fort Worth's best & most visited weekend flea market)
MICHAEL JORDAN MOTORS (obviously no relation to the NBA Hall Of Fame superstar)
FORT WORTH GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE

THE RANCH

This neon sign, which is pretty f-ing cool lookin', is for The Ranch country radio station that resides inside The Jett Building in downtown Fort Worth's ritzy tourist trap, Sundance Square.

I'm not a fan of modern day country (it's just rock 'n roll with a twang) but I am a fan of cool signs and this sign qualifies as cool.

From the dressed up cowboy roping the word "ranch" to the Texas state flag design below that to the rustic old fence that the word "ranch" is branded on.

All around cool and colorful.

If you enjoy country music check out The Ranch.

RED HOT & BLUE: Guitar Pickin' Porkers

Went to lunch at Red Hot & Blue --- Texas, a BBQ joint that got its start in Memphis, Tennessee, with two ladies from work and painted on the dining room brick wall was the restaurant's icon, two pink piggies jamming with guitars.

As usual, I had my Nikon D50 with me and took it out of the bag I carry it in and took this shot.

Loved the neon strings for the guitars. The place also had real guitars and posters of blues rockers, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and well-known black blues artists that made the atmosphere excellent.

The food was very good too. I had the pulled pork bar-be-que sandwich. And classic blues songs were played over the sound system to boot.

EL DORADO MOTEL

I got up off my lazy ass one Friday morning and went hunting...hunting photos, that is, along Fort Worth's seedy ol' Highway 80, which was renamed Camp Bowie West by the powers that be to rid it of a bad rep even though the joints along the highway still have bad reps, and found the El Dorado Motel --- a motel with a perfect look and location for some teenage horror psycho killer slasher flick.

I hadn't been down Highway 80, the part of it on the west side of Loop 820, in quite some time and was surprised to see that the motel was still there and still open for business. As I pulled into a business strip to park and get out and walk over and take this photo I thought to myself, "DAMN! That old ass place is still there? I got to go get a photo of that place before it's torn down."

Sometimes getting off your lazy ass and going outside into the bad, bad world pays off. It did for me the day I rediscovered this classic motel.