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Blue doors
October 19, 2007I have driven past the old grain elevators in Electra countless times.
Photographer Torin Halsey and I even climbed through and explored as many of the buildings as we safely could several weeks ago before the railroad started tearing the old buildings down Monday.
So many memories floated through the old wooden and brick buildings.
Chairs and benches, old signs, the dusty white shelves in the front of the feed store. They were all left behind, abandoned to time.
My favorite visual memory of the buildings that lined the railroad isn't the tall concrete K&K Grain Elevator, a favorite piece of the skyline for many Electrans.
Instead, I'll always remember the blue doors on the feed store, pounded hard by decades of rain and wind and North Texas heat.
Torin took this picture of the doors several years ago when he was out roaming about the countryside, perfectly capturing their time-worn beauty and elegance.
This Tuesday, Torin and I drove up to the elevators to get pictures and interviews for a story about the demolition project.
And the first thing we both noticed were the blue doors.
The glass was broken. Someone had kicked in the bottom one of them.
They sat open, sadly open, as all of the memories floated out.
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