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16×20 acrylic on canvas original is SOLD.

16×20 Prints are NOW AVAILABLE!

Night time at the old Strip in Lubbock Texas, on a short frontage road, one block in a rural corner of the county that was about the only place in Lubbock County where one could legally purchase package alcohol such as bottles of wine, cases of beer or bottles of liquor. Naturally, it was lit up like Las Vegas and there were lines of cars waiting to turn on to “The Short Road” for the week’s provisions. Many Lubbock residents and Texas Tech students spent many an hour visiting the enormous package stores on the Strip, an inconvenience perhaps but a fond rite of passage for West Texans.

Alas, the Strip is merely a memory now. Since May 2009 when voters brought Lubbock into the 21st Century buy allowing package alcohol sales to adults at licensed vendors in town, you can now buy alcohol almost anywhere in Lubbock, where there is a liquor store on almost every corner.