Poor Boys Metal Art, Area 51, 2006
On the road to Roswell, just outside Tatum, New Mexico, Highway 380.
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We were happy to stumble upon this scene in New Mexico on the road to Roswell, a good way out of it. Poor Boys Metal Art shop. Though the sign said OPEN it was closed. I took a number of pics with H.o.p.’s Coolpix and was so blinded with joy that I didn’t realize until afterwards that the shutter was stuck halfway closed, as it now usually is (for which reason I’ll be letting him use the Kodak), but I did manage to get this shot and a couple others. There were vehicles out front but if any belonged to proprietors and the owners took notice of me stumbling around in the brush outside the frence snapping the photos, they didn’t want to be bothered with stepping out and saying, “Hello, thinking about buying anything because if you are we’ll open up shop!” Which was just as well, I guess.
Did a web search for Poor Boys Metal Art but came up with no website for them and no pics of them on Flickr. Did come across a mention of them on an 11/10/2006 blog of a person who’d just traveled through the area and who had also stopped at White Sands. November 2006 was a banner internet month for Poor Boys Metal Art.
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