El Paso: Steps to Nowhere #1: A Photo Shoot

Steps going nowhere, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. November 2016.

November 2016.

On one of several sets of steps going nowhere in Sunset Heights, I spy a photo shoot in process while I walk home from a visit downtown.

Steps going nowhere, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. November 2016.

This empty lot overlooks I-10 and downtown El Paso.

Steps going nowhere, Sunset Heights, El Paso, Texas. November 2016.

At the corner of Prospect and Upson.

This particular set of steps to nowhere in Sunset Heights could be those referred to by El Paso writer, Benjamin Alire Saenz. In Carry Me Like Water (1995), one of the protagonists, Diego, lived in Sunset Heights: "...The part of Upson Street where he lived faced the freeway and the remodeled train station that was newly equipped with automatic chimes." One day, Diego "walked past the steps that went nowhere. He didn’t climb them. ….. At the top of the steps that went nowhere, Diego and Mundo sat among the powdered pile of bricks and drank their beer."

But there's another stairway to nowhere in Sunset Heights ...