Boot Track Cafe, Mentone, Texas, 2000

The town of Mentone, Texas—population 15, more or less—supports a leisurely business at the Boot Track Cafe. The ramshackle restaurant with the lipstick-red posts sets out bottles of hot sauce as centerpieces and serves about 25 cheeseburgers per day.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Zip USA: Mentone, Texas," September 2000, National Geographic magazine)