Tularosa dates back to the Civil War era. I discovered the ruins of what I had thought was an old dry goods store along the main street of its historic district. After posting this image, a viewer added valuable additional context. He remembers it as a pickle packing warehouse, and later a place where local bands used to practice. But as the building fell apart, the music ended. The adobe walls surround an empty lot, filled with grasses and trees. Using a wideangle focal length, I placed the lot and the ruins within the surviving framework of the old facade. Its signage still survives as a ghostly remnant of the past.