PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays
FADED GLORY
Two hunnerd years ago, there’d be 20,000 buffalo out there. It’d take ‘em all day to amble past.
150 years ago, it’d be 10,000 head of cattle bunchin’ up, to be driven to Chicago.
Almost a hunnerd years ago, they built this here ROOT 66, ta get from Chi-town, out to Californie. Any given day, there’d be 5,000 cars passin’, lots faster than buffalo or cattle. Enough of them stopped here, to make this place a gold mine. “Last chance for gas for 100 miles.”
Them glory days is done. Nowadays, it’s tough to get a tumbleweed to stop here.
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Got to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
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