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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
5 months ago
A highway-side tank is at the far end of a cleared lot; the tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it. To the right of the lot is an old 18' tall Uniroyal Woman (look it up!).

A highway-side tank is at the far end of a cleared lot; the tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it. To the right of the lot is an old 18' tall Uniroyal Woman (look it up!).

The Pearsonville Uniroyal Woman — an 18' tall fiberglass woman originally used to advertise Uniroyal Tires.

The Pearsonville Uniroyal Woman — an 18' tall fiberglass woman originally used to advertise Uniroyal Tires.

A roadside tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it.

A roadside tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it.

Pearsonville (California), Hub Cap Capital of The World (there has to be one somewhere, I guess). Plus the giant Uniroyal Woman there as well (she's about three times life-size).

#photography #RoadsideDistraction #Highway395 #Mojave #Desert #California #Americana #Roadscape #RoadsideAttraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
6 months ago
A large very bright red horse stands on a narrow pedestal a few metres above the highway in Bishop, California. His (white) eyes are bulging a little. In the background, the White Mountains dominate the horizon.

A large very bright red horse stands on a narrow pedestal a few metres above the highway in Bishop, California. His (white) eyes are bulging a little. In the background, the White Mountains dominate the horizon.

Big Red, S. Main Street, Bishop, California (2013). A fave of mine, I've taken way too many photos of him over the years…

#photography #Streetscape #Highway395 #OwensValley #California #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
8 months ago
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My semi-annual Zurich, California post (Zurich, California, 2025).

#photography #OwensValley #California #desert #RoadsideDistraction #ruins

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
8 months ago
A large fibreglass steer (I presume) stands in a tiny fenced-in plot next to the railway and State Route 58 on the way to Bakersfield. It's advertising the Buttonwillow Land and Cattle Company.

A large fibreglass steer (I presume) stands in a tiny fenced-in plot next to the railway and State Route 58 on the way to Bakersfield. It's advertising the Buttonwillow Land and Cattle Company.

Near Buttonwillow, California (2014?).

#photography #RoadsideDistraction #CentralValley #California

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
9 months ago
A two-metre (seven foot) high golden Buddha (missing one of its hands) sits next to the old Route 66 in Amboy, California, in front of the main railroad line Back East and a distant sharo range of desert mountains. People have left little offerings on the ground around him.

A two-metre (seven foot) high golden Buddha (missing one of its hands) sits next to the old Route 66 in Amboy, California, in front of the main railroad line Back East and a distant sharo range of desert mountains. People have left little offerings on the ground around him.

The Buddha of Amboy (California), on the old Route 66. Taken a few years ago, but he's still there, I think…

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Route66 #California #Mojave #Desert #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
9 months ago
An old truck sits hoisted up on a couple of tall poles next to Interstate 80 in Fernley, Nevada. On the truck's side, the words "Truck Inn".

An old truck sits hoisted up on a couple of tall poles next to Interstate 80 in Fernley, Nevada. On the truck's side, the words "Truck Inn".

Truck Inn, Fernley, Nevada (2024). Usually the last thing I see of Fernley on my way back to California…

#photography #Roadscape #RoadsideDistraction #nevada #GreatBasin #desert #TravelsWithAniPhone #Interstate80

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
9 months ago
A very large rather dilapidated sign stands next to an ad hoc truck parking area off Interstate 80 in Fernley, Nevada. The top of it reads DIESEL MOTEL CASINO in two lines; the rest is inscrutable (and yellow).

A very large rather dilapidated sign stands next to an ad hoc truck parking area off Interstate 80 in Fernley, Nevada. The top of it reads DIESEL MOTEL CASINO in two lines; the rest is inscrutable (and yellow).

DIESEL MOTEL CASINO (Fernley, Nevada, 2024).

#photography #RoadsideDistraction #nevada #GreatBasin #Interstate80 #Roadscape

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
10 months ago
A large green and yellow inflatable frog with a white sheet advertising sale prices on its chest looms up behind a low-slung windowless yellow Estuary-side building — Tiki Tom's — next to an old green bascule drawbridge on the shores of Oakland Estuary. It's early morning.

A large green and yellow inflatable frog with a white sheet advertising sale prices on its chest looms up behind a low-slung windowless yellow Estuary-side building — Tiki Tom's — next to an old green bascule drawbridge on the shores of Oakland Estuary. It's early morning.

Sunrise, Tiki Tom's, Jingletown, Oakland (2015?). Right next to the Park Street Bridge (the green structure on the right), it burned down in suspicious circumstances some time after I took this photo.

#photography #jingletown #streetscape #oakland #OaklandEstuary #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
10 months ago
A black, brown, and white shoe-shaped shop building displays an "OPEN" sign in its side window; it has a door in the toe area. It is, of course, a shoe (repair) shop.

A black, brown, and white shoe-shaped shop building displays an "OPEN" sign in its side window; it has a door in the toe area. It is, of course, a shoe (repair) shop.

Open, 2012. Probably my fave Chester Avenue (Bakersfield) building (it's still there, still doing business, or was when I last visited a few months ago).

#photography #Streetscape #Bakersfield #California #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
10 months ago
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What it looked like sixteen years later, in 2016…

#DVNP #desert #RoadsideDistraction #DeathValleyNationalPark

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
10 months ago
A battered old wooden sign stands next to the equally battered rough old dirt track known as the Racetrack Road in Death Valley National Park at what's known as Teakettle Junction. It's (predictably) got a couple of teat kettles hanging from it, despite being what is a long way from anywhere. In the background the sharp dark peaks of the Ubehebe range. Oh, and I'm about to be snowed on… heavily.

A battered old wooden sign stands next to the equally battered rough old dirt track known as the Racetrack Road in Death Valley National Park at what's known as Teakettle Junction. It's (predictably) got a couple of teat kettles hanging from it, despite being what is a long way from anywhere. In the background the sharp dark peaks of the Ubehebe range. Oh, and I'm about to be snowed on… heavily.

Teakettle Junction, the Racetrack Road, Death Valley National Park, 2000(ish) — before the sign got totally inundated with kettles.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #DVNP #desert #RoadsideDistraction #DeathValleyNationalPark

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
11 months ago
(2018) A blue sign with red writing on it saying "CLOWN MOTEL" stands in front of, well, the Clown Motel, a low-slung two-storey motel next to the highway in Tonopah, Nevada. There are all sorts of clown-related signs and nick-knacks visible; in the distance, the bare desert hills Tonopah was built on.

(2018) A blue sign with red writing on it saying "CLOWN MOTEL" stands in front of, well, the Clown Motel, a low-slung two-storey motel next to the highway in Tonopah, Nevada. There are all sorts of clown-related signs and nick-knacks visible; in the distance, the bare desert hills Tonopah was built on.

(2024) A white sign with red writing on it saying "CLOWN MOTEL" stands in front of, well, the Clown Motel, a low-slung two-storey motel next to the highway in Tonopah, Nevada. There are all sorts of clown-related signs and nick-knacks visible.

(2024) A white sign with red writing on it saying "CLOWN MOTEL" stands in front of, well, the Clown Motel, a low-slung two-storey motel next to the highway in Tonopah, Nevada. There are all sorts of clown-related signs and nick-knacks visible.

Tonopah’s inimitable (World Famous!) Clown Motel, 2018 and 2024. It’s a lot more self-consciously shiny and less creepy nowadays than it used to be. And it's right next to the old Tonopah Cemetery… www.tonopahnevada.com/clown-motel/

#photography #nevada #Americana #RoadsideDistraction #GreatBasin

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
11 months ago
A white horse stands on a scrubby desert plain a few dozen metres off the highway looking at the camera. Behind it a striking volcanic small sharp desert hill looms up into a grey unsettled sky (yes, it's about to snow on me again).

A white horse stands on a scrubby desert plain a few dozen metres off the highway looking at the camera. Behind it a striking volcanic small sharp desert hill looms up into a grey unsettled sky (yes, it's about to snow on me again).

Somewhere, US Highway 6, Central(ish) Nevada (May 2024).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #desert #GreatBasin #Nevada #Highway6 #americana #RoadsideDistraction #DesertColors

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
11 months ago
A decrepit yellow(ish) and brown house with boarded-up windows sits on the street in West Berkeley; it has the word "eternal" painted on its right hand side.

A decrepit yellow(ish) and brown house with boarded-up windows sits on the street in West Berkeley; it has the word "eternal" painted on its right hand side.

The eternal house, West Berkeley, this morning. I've been taking pix of this place for literally decades; it hasn't changed much in all that time.

#photography #streetscape #urban #berkeley #california #ruins #StrollsWithAniPhone #MobilePhotography #RoadsideDistraction #PreGentrification

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A semi-desert scene: a large colourful 2D James Dean bust in a row of signs next to a Texaco gas station on California's State Highway 33.

A semi-desert scene: a large colourful 2D James Dean bust in a row of signs next to a Texaco gas station on California's State Highway 33.

Locally Grown Pistachios. Blackwell's Corner, Highway 33, California (2010(ish)). Yes, a James Dean memorial — he died in a car smash here(ish).

#photography #landscapephotography #roadscape #CentralValley #California #Americana #RoadsideDistraction #Highway33 #CA33 #RoadsideMemorial

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A classic desert two-lane blacktop stretches off through a flat desert plain into the distance; the horizon is a line of sharp low dark mountains. Off the righthand side of the highway there's an official green sign in some sort of ironic techno font that proclaims this the "Extraterrestrial Highway". The sky is unsettled above the scene (it's about to snow… again).

A classic desert two-lane blacktop stretches off through a flat desert plain into the distance; the horizon is a line of sharp low dark mountains. Off the righthand side of the highway there's an official green sign in some sort of ironic techno font that proclaims this the "Extraterrestrial Highway". The sky is unsettled above the scene (it's about to snow… again).

A classic two-lane desert blacktop curves away into the distance (plains and a low range of mountains). To the right of the road is an official green sign in some sort of intentionally ironic techno font that proclaims this the "Extraterrestrial Highway". There are some trees on both sides of the highway in the near and middle distance; the sky has a bunch of puffy white cumulus in it.

A classic two-lane desert blacktop curves away into the distance (plains and a low range of mountains). To the right of the road is an official green sign in some sort of intentionally ironic techno font that proclaims this the "Extraterrestrial Highway". There are some trees on both sides of the highway in the near and middle distance; the sky has a bunch of puffy white cumulus in it.

A tall darkly metallic stereotypical alien stands next to a modern-day quonsett hut next to the southern end of the Extraterrestrial Highway. The store it's a part of sells ET Highway kitsch, apparently, but it's never been open any time in the last fifteen years when I've driven past.

A tall darkly metallic stereotypical alien stands next to a modern-day quonsett hut next to the southern end of the Extraterrestrial Highway. The store it's a part of sells ET Highway kitsch, apparently, but it's never been open any time in the last fifteen years when I've driven past.

The Extraterrestrial Highway (the official name of Nevada State Route 375), May 2024. I didn't see any aliens or Area 51-related things this time, but you never know… (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_...)

#photography #roadscape #desert #nevada #americana #RoadsideDistraction #TheRoadAhead

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A silver and brown double-decker car carrier freight train (minus the locomotives) lies on its side next to the eastbound main line in the Mojave Desert. There's desert sand around it, and a line of power poles disappearing into the distance.

A silver and brown double-decker car carrier freight train (minus the locomotives) lies on its side next to the eastbound main line in the Mojave Desert. There's desert sand around it, and a line of power poles disappearing into the distance.

A silver and brown double-decker car carrier freight train (minus the locomotives) lies on its side next to the eastbound main line in the Mojave Desert. There's desert sand around it, and a line of power poles disappearing into the distance.

A silver and brown double-decker car carrier freight train (minus the locomotives) lies on its side next to the eastbound main line in the Mojave Desert. There's desert sand around it, and a line of power poles disappearing into the distance.

A close up of several badly-damaged double-decker car carriers on their side in the desert sand next to the main rail line in the Mojave Desert.

A close up of several badly-damaged double-decker car carriers on their side in the desert sand next to the main rail line in the Mojave Desert.

A close up of a couple of badly-damaged double-decker car carriers on their side in the desert sand next to the main rail line in the Mojave Desert.

A close up of a couple of badly-damaged double-decker car carriers on their side in the desert sand next to the main rail line in the Mojave Desert.

An actual train wreck. I stumbled across this aftermath of a freight train derailment at Bagdad, California a decade ago on my way elsewhere. The huge forces involved are really apparent…

#photography #route66 #trainwreck #mojave #desert #california #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A large decrepit white boarded-up single-storey building with a steeply-pitched faded green tiled roof with the words "Halstead's Blackjack Inn" written on it in faded white paint stands next to US Highway 6 in east-central Nevada. Behind the building a classic water pump windmill; in the background a typical dark snow-encrusted Great Basin range. The sky is unsettled.

A large decrepit white boarded-up single-storey building with a steeply-pitched faded green tiled roof with the words "Halstead's Blackjack Inn" written on it in faded white paint stands next to US Highway 6 in east-central Nevada. Behind the building a classic water pump windmill; in the background a typical dark snow-encrusted Great Basin range. The sky is unsettled.

Halstead's Blackjack Inn, Highway 6 at State Route 318, Nevada (May 2024). This building's just been rotting there next to the road in the middle of nowhere now for what feels like decades now.

#photography #roadscape #GreatBasin #desert #nevada #ruins #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A mostly-yellow advertising billboard with a bunny on it advertises an instant Nesquik milkshake sort of thing with the slogan "Come To Your Happy Place." The billboard looms over a typical deserted urban West Oakland scene: bunched-together shipping containers (varioualy-coloured) on truck trailers, an industrial road (that still has a railway track down the middle of it), and a couple of tall wooden power poles. All under a pale blue sky.

A mostly-yellow advertising billboard with a bunny on it advertises an instant Nesquik milkshake sort of thing with the slogan "Come To Your Happy Place." The billboard looms over a typical deserted urban West Oakland scene: bunched-together shipping containers (varioualy-coloured) on truck trailers, an industrial road (that still has a railway track down the middle of it), and a couple of tall wooden power poles. All under a pale blue sky.

Come To Your Happy Place, West Oakland, 2012.

#photography #urbanlandscape #streetscape #urban #RoadsideDistraction #Oakland #California #Scape

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A (very) bright yellow shopfront stands on the edge of California State Route 58 in California's Central Valley; the yellow is echoed by the road markings. The shopfront has faded enticements like "Hot Food" and "Meat Cigs" and "Candy Chips" painted on it in black script. There's a single, closed, barred, door and two square windows in the facade.

A (very) bright yellow shopfront stands on the edge of California State Route 58 in California's Central Valley; the yellow is echoed by the road markings. The shopfront has faded enticements like "Hot Food" and "Meat Cigs" and "Candy Chips" painted on it in black script. There's a single, closed, barred, door and two square windows in the facade.

Highway 58, Downtown Buttonwillow, California (a couple of years ago).

#photography #streetscape #california #CentralValley #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
An old white truck trailer with the words "this blood was poured out for your sins" around a very graphic picture of a bloody nail through (presumably) Jesus's hand sits on a brown grassy bank next to southbound Interstate 5 in rural Northern California.

An old white truck trailer with the words "this blood was poured out for your sins" around a very graphic picture of a bloody nail through (presumably) Jesus's hand sits on a brown grassy bank next to southbound Interstate 5 in rural Northern California.

This blood… (Interstate-5, somewhere north of Williams, rural Northern California, 2009(ish)).

#photography #california #AmericanGothic #Americana #RoadsideDistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
A dead car in a very large puddle under an Exxon sign in the middle of nowhere.

A dead car in a very large puddle under an Exxon sign in the middle of nowhere.

Sullivan Road, early 1990's.

#photography #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #california #centralvalley #americana #deadcarsinthedesert #roadsidedistraction

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Hamish Reid
Hamish Reid
@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social
1 year ago
The big old red and white Bun Boy sign sticks up out of the desert floor next to Interstate 15 in Baker, California. In the distance there's a low range of hills.

The big old red and white Bun Boy sign sticks up out of the desert floor next to Interstate 15 in Baker, California. In the distance there's a low range of hills.

This Exit (Baker, California, maybe 2015).

#photography #landscapephotography #mojave #desert #california #roadsidedistraction

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