Gone, but not forgotten, Old Glory, Texas
Mo's place was a small liquor / variety store located on HY380, just over 2 miles west of Old Glory, in Stonewall County. I first stopped here in the fall of 2014 after seeing their VERY COOL sign out front, having a life-sized steel vulture perched atop the supporting pole. Revisiting in December of 2019, the business was closed and boarded up, the sign and vulture gone, but the pole still in place. Stopping here this past June I found the lot scraped clean and the only hint that anything had ever been there was this memorial. I don't know what had the place close... bad business (8 miles east of Aspermont with its Allsup's convenience store, and others), or maybe the owners retirement, or death.
The night before my drive out here I decided to do a Google Earth search along HY380 west of Old Glory. From my first visit I remembered that about 200 yards directly behind the building was some kind of oil or gas pumping facility that was creating a dull, deep "thumping" sound... the vibration being felt coming through the ground as I stood by my Jeep. Finding what I thought could be this facility, I tried a "street view" in Google Earth and found this memorial, about 50 yards west of a gate for the Energy Transfer Company's Corsica Compressor Station, an operation that provides pressure for keeping natural gas moving through pipelines.
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Gone, but not forgotten, Old Glory, Texas
Mo's place was a small liquor / variety store located on HY380, just over 2 miles west of Old Glory, in Stonewall County. I first stopped here in the fall of 2014 after seeing their VERY COOL sign out front, having a life-sized steel vulture perched atop the supporting pole. Revisiting in December of 2019, the business was closed and boarded up, the sign and vulture gone, but the pole still in place. Stopping here this past June I found the lot scraped clean and the only hint that anything had ever been there was this memorial. I don't know what had the place close... bad business (8 miles east of Aspermont with its Allsup's convenience store, and others), or maybe the owners retirement, or death.
The night before my drive out here I decided to do a Google Earth search along HY380 west of Old Glory. From my first visit I remembered that about 200 yards directly behind the building was some kind of oil or gas pumping facility that was creating a dull, deep "thumping" sound... the vibration being felt coming through the ground as I stood by my Jeep. Finding what I thought could be this facility, I tried a "street view" in Google Earth and found this memorial, about 50 yards west of a gate for the Energy Transfer Company's Corsica Compressor Station, an operation that provides pressure for keeping natural gas moving through pipelines.
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