Zebadiah hasn’t been out in a while so early Sunday morning, he decided to venture down to the old Collin creek mall to see what has transpired in the last few months.
Zeb heard about the trucks lined up, waiting for their orders of the day, but couldn’t quite understand what all the fuss was about.
He has heard a similar saying all his life.
Photographed 2020-08-16 Plano, TX
A few weeks ago we took a little road trip near the Texas, Oklahoma border. Carpenters Bluff, Texas is not really there anymore. Very few houses are left. Most all the buildings are demolished, but the bridge still crosses the Red River.
I was there several years ago on my motorcycle and it could still be driven. Today it is closed except pedestrian traffic and graffiti. On the Wooden side, moss has all but taken over several yards of the bridge.
We had a nice time but the wind was blowing so much, we didn’t stay long.
I can’t wait to see what the next adventure might be!
Photographed: Carpenters Bluff, Texas 2020.05.23
I suppose there are many ways to have the blues. This way seems twofold. Owning blue shoes and being blue because you left your blue shoes in the parking garage.
At least they are not Suede and do not appear to be stepped on either!
Photographed: Dallas, Texas 2020.02.28
Zebadiah had to go see what all the noise was about. He thought it was pretty cool.
He said he should have told Adriana’s sister, Adalyn, but she would have tried to go to the top!
I will have twelve of my photos on display at Methodist Richardson Medical Center Community Art Wall over the next several weeks. I am both excited and a little nervous.
Thanks to our friends Cheryl-Ann!
Well, another landmark(kinda) bites the dust.
One of my favorite Mexican Food places is being demolished. The formerly known as Mex-I-Go/Don Pepe’s Rancho Mexican Cafe is being torn down to make way for a Chick-fil-a.
It’s sad to see it go, but they are moving a little further down the street and plans to open at the end of January.
Photographed 2020-01-18 Richardson, TX
It will be another mile for us to drive. Hmmm, another mile. It is good food though!!
Well, I couldn’t resist.
Last Saturday I went by the remains of Collin Creek Mall again. There is still a lot of demo to be done. I went early to catch the sunrise.
The Sears store is mostly gone. There are a few more piles of rubble here and there with several rows of concrete waiting to be recycled.
One of the upper floors has a bunch of tires laying there. Wonder if they were leftover from Sears?
All Photographed: Plano, TX 2019.11.16
Maybe I “WILL” take a few more shots of the demo. It helps me see the photo instead of a snapshot.
I’m thinking this may be my last post of the mall for a while. I try to stop by at least once a week to see the progress. I was hoping I could have seen them tearing down the Sears sign, but too late, its already in the piles of tin steel and concrete.
Here is a panoramic shot from the raised parking lot to the east. I’m just a little too far away.
Photographed: Plano, TX 2019-11-08
SEArS. The letters on the Sears end of the mall have been hanging for a while before the mall actually closed. I stopped by when you could still go inside the mall and could not resist to shoot the sign.
Photographed: Plano, TX 2019-07-26
It wont be dangling much longer as the demo crew has started on that section of the mall.
Photographed: Plano, TX 2019-11-02
Its kind of funny the barricade is still there. We sure don’t want that letter to fall on anyone!
Over the weekend I went to the demolition of Collin Creek mall early to see what progress had been made since last week. With just a few more grabs of the claw Macy’s will be gone.
The last iconic arch wall is now see through to the builders supply all the way across highway 75 to the east.
The bigger claw to the left is pulling the building apart while this one sorts the rubble.
As I came back from an errand, I drove back by on Sunday and most of this is gone too. One of the few times I left the house without my camera.
Photographed Plano, Texas 2019.10.26
Photos by Pody 