Pampa, TX: ABANDONED MEDICAL BUILDING, once the tallest office building in Pampa, typifies the neglect of the downtown area after most retail business moved to the malls of north Pampa.

Pampa: ABANDONED GAS STATION near the historic downtown area.

Pampa: MILO as far as the eye can see off Highway 70 south of Pampa.

Pampa: St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church located on the northside of Pampa

Pampa: LAST REMAINING BUILDINGS of the Bowers City Plant crumble among shrubs and brush.

Pampa: BROTHERS CIVIC CLUB has few neighbors in a scarcely populated area of south Pampa.

Pampa: Cyler Street, the historical downtown's main avenue.

Pampa: OLD ICE PLANT on East Tyng Avenue near the train depot is now abandoned.

Pampa: STORMY SKIES hover over the escarpment of the Llano Estacado, one of the largest and most completely flat areas of its size in the world. Pampa is located on a jutting finger of this formation, so that moist air moving toward it from any one of three directions is lifted hundreds of feet up the relatively steep escarpment, causing instability and triggering storms.

Pampa: Dust Storm in Pampa TX early 1930's. Taken near S. Starkweather st.