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Saturday night in the empty lot 

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illustration of — Saturday night in the empty lot behind Waffle House in Apropos, Texas, 1982 —

A group of 80s teenagers in the middle of nowhere Texas hang out on a Friday night doing what all kids who live in small towns do: take over an abandoned lot behind a Waffle House to party. Lots of tight jeans and cowboy hats and cutoffs and discarded beer cans.
Next illustration of Published in an editorial feature of the illustrator's work in Charleston Magazine.

Richie and Margo lounge in a pool on old-school inflatable rafts, the water still, shadows falling deep to the bottom, quoting Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero.

We’ve All Lost Some Sort of Feeling

— Saturday night in the empty lot behind Waffle House in Apropos, Texas, 1982 — A group of 80s teenagers in the middle of nowhere Texas hang out on a Friday night doing what all kids who live in small towns do: take over an abandoned lot behind a Waffle House to party. Lots of tight jeans and cowboy hats and cutoffs and discarded beer cans.

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