SODIUM CLOUDS 2007
The pump Island at the forgotten “Lockhart Ranch” general store and gas station at Lockhart, California. Seventy-five miles away, the Los Angeles metroplex lights the clouds.

GRAVITY FEED 2007
1920s vintage gas pump at Darwin, California, a remote outpost west of Death Valley.

BIG SKY PUMP 2006
The summer night rains stars on the pump island at the dead truck stop in Coaldale, a desolate crossroad in west-central Nevada.

RUSTY BOOMERANGS 2002
This Jetsons era Googie gas station rots beside Interstate 80, near just east of Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.

NO CHECKS CASHED 2008
Inside a derelict lube bay at Ludlow, on the California run of Route 66.

PEELING PORTE COCHERE 2007
Abandoned pump islands at Olancha, on isolated Highway 395, down the eastern side of the Sierras.

METAL CASCADE 2007
The island canopy peels away in the relentless Mojave wind on busy Highway 138 at the "Llano Curve."

WAYNE'S EMPTY EYES 2006
Heavily textured 1930s Wayne gas pumps outside Darr's, a private collection of petrolania antiques at Kramer junction, California.

SKELETAL PUMP  2000
I had to kneel in a room full of broken glass to get the shot in this San Fidel, New Mexico "Whiting Brothers" station.

DEEP SHADOWS  2006
The decommissioned military base on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

FORGOTTEN PUMPS 2008
At Ludlow, Route 66, in SoCal.

EAT E.T. 2007
1980s vintage E.T. Head pumps among the abandoned roadside debris off the freeway in Yermo, California, a quiet high desert roadside town east of Barstow.

DECO TEXACO 2007
The abandoned Olancha Texaco station on Highway 395 down the remote eastern spine of California. See page 70 of my book "Lost America" for my original 1999 film shot from the exact same spot. This structure was razed in 2008.

PUMP GUTS 2006
Ancient gas pump parts, part of the petrolania collection outside Darr's, Kramer junction, California.

MOTORPOOL 2007
Sitting atop a fuel tank like a whitehead on an abscess, a battered and rotting gas pump festers, outside a prefab Air Force motor pool building.

YERMO GAS  2007
Windblown and dusty, along the bypassed road at Yermo, California.

66 76 2006
Abandoned 76 Station and other buildings at Ludlow, Route 66, in SoCal.

PETROMANIA 2007
1920s gravity feed gas pump at Darwin, California, a ghost town west of Death Valley.

ENCO 2006
A random pile of petrolania antiques outside Darr's, located at Kramer junction, California.

RED TRIM  2007
The west is littered with abandoned gas stations. This one slumbers at the “Llano Curve” on California’s Highway 138.