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Twentynine Palms California Vacant Thrift Store

There are over a dozen thrift stores in the Morongo Basin. This used to be one of them. It's dangerously close to the donut shop. Two doors from Starbucks, somehow they couldn't make a go of it. I only went in here once before they 'flamed out.' Another thrift store, a half mile east of here, was sold by its retired Marine Corps owner to unknown parties.

 

Nearby is "Blessed Sacrament" thrift store which closes at 2pm. Heck, I'm barely awake by 2pm [guffaw]. There's a friendly military surplus store across the street.

 

…All of the Soviet republics, from the Arctic to the Caspian and from Poland to Manchuria, were impoverished, a vast slum, the people in rags, the whole army dressed in uniforms which looked as if they had come from dealers in second-hand clothes. The Great War, the Revolution, and the dozen civil wars had ruined the country…

— George Seldes

 

From: “Lenin at the Fifth Anniversary,” Tell The Truth and Run, (New York: Greenberg, 1953).

 

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Source: phone-created 2,400x1,300 8-bit JPeG.

 

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Uploaded on February 17, 2024
Taken on February 9, 2024