Seagraves, Texas will have your head turning as you pass through on highway--and will then really arouse your interst if you drive down the main street. From the highway you will see pictures painted on the walls of buildings--old cars in a garage, for example. And, the pictures are painted to look just like those old cars. There used to be one building you could see from the highway that looked like a feed store. There was a loading dock, feed sacks, people, and other things you would find at a feed store. It was just paint though, paint put on by someone who knew what he was doing. Other pictures by the same man--I never learned his name--could be found throughout town southwest of Lubbock, including a comic scene of prisoners in stripped suits escaping from a second floor window--on the wall of the police station. Look close, though, and you start seeing pictures of another type--landscapes--painted on the walls of other buidlings. Soon you realize there must have been some sort of competition between the landscape painter and the comic painter. Both are good. Those pictures, by the way, are worth looking at. As interesting, should you stop through, are the street lamps on the main street. They are uniform and are placed on the sidewalk. If you bother to look, you will also see small, gold plaques on the base of each one. Look closer, and you will see on those gold plaques are the names of Seagraves citizens who have died! Yep! It's like a grave yard on main street. Fun as all get out!
