Essence of old America right here when the cars weren’t run on computers. You had to turn the radio dial yourself to find a station instead of some new-fangled digital system. Manufacturing began in the 1930s for the Buick Roadmaster. The Roadmaster parked in the foreground is probably a 1950s-something. The hovering vintage Gulf sign emanates Yesteryear.

In the distant phone booth stands a female mannequin wearing a Hooters tank top, white hot pants and a long blonde wig, all coated in a patina of road dust that drifts in the open doors. I named the mannequin Veronica Dubeau. Her perpetual waiting in the old phone booth harkens thoughts of Blanch Dubois, another faded and soiled Southern beauty from Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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(All photos by James Calemine)