Buford Drug Sign

This is a neon sign leftover from the original business, which was located in the old downtown area of Terrell. Buford is long gone now, and a tanning salon occupies the building. They've kept the original sign, which I'd love to see lit up some day.

Buford Drugs - Downtown Terrell

As a follow up to yesterday's post, here is a current shot of the old Buford Drugs building - now the home to Best Tan and Serendipity Gifts and Decor. I didn't get quite the same angle, but it's the same building and corner =)

Iris Theater

Jim over at Terrell Daily Photo recently did several posts with the newly replaced Iris Theater neon sign, which is currenly occupied by Books and Crannies bookstore. The owners of the bookstore paid to replace the movie sign to its original condition and colors... the neon looks really cool in the downtown area at night... Now if only someone could replace the Buford Drugs neon sign!

Saturday... unofficial Theme day

Well, since I procrastinated and missed signing up for theme day -- I decided to procrastinate and post my 'unofficial theme day' photo late also =) just kidding - I ended up going through a lot of trouble trying to gain access to my website today, which ended up being a problem between sitemeter and Internet Explorer... all seems to be working now, and I have now d'loaded firefox as an alternative browser just in case... anyway, the theme day fell on skywatch friday so -- here is my metal (buford drugs sign) and a bright blue sky...

I have a nice political photo ready for tomorrow that I'll be posting in tandem with Jim over at Terrell Daily Photo... =) and a brief smoking update - I'm almost 6 weeks smoke-free now, and today I went and joined the local gym AND went and worked out for almost an hour!

skywatch friday - yard sales

i'll probably need me some buford drugs after tomorrow =)

i love going to garage sales, but absolutely hate having them. but i had a lot of junk i needed to get rid of so i'm torturing myself over the next 2 days. and maybe i'll make a couple dollars in the process =)

To view everyone participating in skywatch friday, click here..

happy weekend all!

2009 Photo of the Year! CDP Theme Day!

A final winner has been selected by everyone who voted in my 'Photo of the Year' contest for 2009. The grand prize goes to the 'TDP Downtown Photo-walk' picture. This is a photo I submitted for consideration in the Terrell Photo-walk that Jim at Terrell Daily Photo sponsored last summer.

I was actually taking a photo of Risinger's Western Wear and the Buford Drugs sign, and when I got home to review my photos I saw the old car driving past. Serendipity? Perhaps =) I thought the black and white effect made the photo seem older - and I was going through a 'color focus' phase back at the time, which resulted in my leaving the car in it's original color. It's one of my favorite shots, so I'll agree with the results!

I selected my photo by taking a poll from 5 selected photos posted on my site throughout 2009, and here are the Final Poll Results:

1st. TDP Downtown Photowalk with 19 votes

2nd. THS Cheerleaders with 10 votes

3rd. Purple Passion Flower with 3 votes

Please take a browse through some of the other City Daily Photo sites participating in photo of the year!! Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

100th Post Anniversary!

Today marks my 100th official post since beginning my blog on January 5th. I have to admit and apologize for posting twice on a couple days recently – but I didn’t start my blog until the 5th, and I wanted to end the year with a blog post for every day.

In honor of my 100th post, I'm posting some before/after photos from Terrell's 100th anniversary back in 1975. Today’s first photo came out of a calendar published by American National Bank in 1975 commemorating the 100th anniversary of Terrell.

To the far right in the old photo (circa 1910) is American National Bank – which still exists, and resides in the same place. It’s been remodeled and covered in glass now, and grown to encompass nearly the whole block. Aside from the bank in this old photo, the only other building remaining on this block is barely visible.

The last small building on the block today (close-up below) houses a ‘Palm Beach Tan’ tanning salon. (The Buford Drugs sign is another remnant of days past)

Buford Drugs

Buford Drugs

I've always loved this old drugstore sign in downtown Terrell. It's an old neon sign, but I've never seen it lit up since I've lived here....