I didn’t have my new Bazooka when I drove by this gang doing a photoshoot with a 1960 Chevrolet Impala in Downtown Albuquerque on my way home tonight.
Tag: downtown
Downtown Then & Now
QBurger on July 15, 2017 (https://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2017/7/pairs)
Filling Phillys on July 15, 2020
Neighborhood Bar on March 6, 2020
Neighborhood Bar on July 15, 2020 (the address has been updated)
Urban Watershed

If you haven’t brushed up on your geography lately, a watershed is an area where runoff collects into streams that drain into a river basin or particular body of water. In this example of an urban watershed, it occurs in a corner of the parking structure under the stairs. The urine runoff from the walls, and dark corner, collect into streams that drain into a big barf basin that is replenished by people who drink too much alcohol, or people having withdrawals, or people walking by who puke from the rancid smell of the urine streams. I’ve read that urban watersheds such as this have become much more common in urban landscapes across the country.
Bruski in the ȠE BU QUE RQUE

Can you find Bruski in the ȠE BU QUE RQUE sculpture?

I was awakened by thunder this morning. As I drove into town I could see scattered thundershowers all around. The photo above has two showers the were moving from west to east. The thundershower on the left reflected a very subtle rainbow from the rising sun.

“America Needs You Harry Truman”
I can’t imagine a bumper sticker surviving 70 years in the New Mexico sun and being at all legible, but the faded and cracked “America Needs You Harry Truman” bumper sticker on a 1946 Ford pickup that was parked on 3rd Street in Downtown Albuquerque could be original…
See and read more at: http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/12/-america-needs-you-harry-truman
The Mother Road Motel
You can see the full photo by clicking on the photo above or the following link http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/2/the-mother-road-motel
Behind Bars
Smoke Break in downtown http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/behind-bars
Then and Now T – 13 Days
Downtown Albuquerque 1980 and 2015 http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/12/then-and-now-t-13-days



