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The Old Cabinet

We have this thing going on at our church.  Anyone who wants to can get on a list to have breakfast/lunch/dinner with 7-8 other people. (every 4 months it changes people so you can meet others) It's a great way to get to know others in the church and to make new friends, or just get out and have a diversion in your life.

Today was the day for our group to meet so we decided to go to Chili's on the north side of town for lunch.  

After we ate I drove around a little to see if there were any photos I could find since I don't usually go to that side of town very much.  There was an old building, painted on the outside with a nautical theme, that I thought was interesting and then I saw this empty cabinet.  

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Novice Community Center

Another abandoned building.  Novice is a very small town with tiny population, so maybe there's a community center someplace else that people can go to.

This one is definitely unused.  

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Abandoned Gas station in Coleman

This abandoned structure is on a corner down a side street in Coleman, TX.  

Doors are locked and one door is covered over with shutters so you can't even see what's inside.

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Another Abandoned Building

Was this a gas station, a community center, a home?  No way to tell.  There seems to be a dog house in the yard to the right of the structure, but that still doesn't indicate what the building was. It also looks like there was a large window next to the door that was covered over at one time.  

It's obviously been abandoned for a long time.

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Abandoned Building in Colorado City

This building is abandoned, but it has a 7-up logo painted on the side with the name of the town

prominently displayed.

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Old Train Station

This is the front of the old train station in Cisco, TX.  It's been abandoned for as long as I've been here and for many years before that probably.  

It's a long building that has overhead doors to load large items into the train.

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Abandoned Olden School

In the town of Olden, Texas, there's an abandoned school building that used to be the senior high school.  Some of the window panes are missing and the doors are locked so no one can enter, sadly.

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Abandoned Olden School

This abandoned school building was the high school in Olden, Texas.  Many of the windows are missing, not because they've been broken, but because the glue holding the glass in has deteriorated and the panes have fallen out.  

There was no way to enter the building which was disappointing.

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Painted Wall Mural

In the town of Mineral Wells, TX, there's this musical mural painted on one of the abandoned buildings that can be seen from the Main Street of the town.

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Peaked Roof of Abandoned Church

This is an abandoned church on one of the side streets in Anson, TX.  Doors and windows are covered with boards and the bell from the steeple is missing.  

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Alleyway Back Door

This back door is in an alleyway in Eastland, TX.  Hard to tell if the building is abandoned by looking at it in the alleyway.  

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Building Cornerstone

This is an abandoned church building down one of the side streets in Anson.  The structure is boarded up and the belfry had no bell.  The grass badly needs to be cut. 

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Abandoned House on Corner

This abandoned house is on a corner in a run down neighborhood in Abilene, TX.  

The windows on one side are boarded up and there's a chain link fence surrounding the yard.  The other half of the building has an ac unit in the window, but the house is in disrepair and doesn't look like anyone is living in it.

The sky to the left looks like there's copy space.

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Abandoned Warehouse

This corner of the building is just a piece of a long/large warehouse on the south side of Abilene, TX where there are other warehouses and other abandoned buildings. There's copy space on the white bricks and on the steps, while green vines grow cup the supports of the structure.

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Chain and Lock

This chain and lock is on some heavy particle board that covers the glass windows that used to be part of a bakery in downtown Abilene, TX.  Right now the building seems abandoned, but it's apparently taken care of by being covered over with the wooden boards.

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Defunct Phone Booth

This phone booth has been at the boat launch for years.  One year there was a lot of weeds and flowers growing on it, but this year, not so much.  I can't believe the booth is still there, but it's a reminder of days gone by.

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Corner Windows

This is another abandoned structure in downtown Cisco, TX.  It's hard to tell what it might have been in its glory days.

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Abandoned Railway Station

This old railway station is down one of the side streets in Cisco, TX.  The front part, where the door is, appears to be the entrance where people could purchase tickets and wait for the train.  The rear of the building must have been where they loaded and unloaded freight.

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Another View of abandoned bldg

This is another view of the previous abandoned building where you can see a broken window pane and part of the fire escape against a blue, late spring day.

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Broken Window

One of the large buildings in Cisco, TX is abandoned.  Many of the windows are broken.  This one is on the ground level and has blue tape covering the broken pane so no one gets cut if they touch it.  The building is about 5 stories high and it's a wonder that it's been abandoned since I arrived in TX seven years ago.  It's just going to wrack & ruin, which is very sad.