While on a long photo road trip early in the series though Pennsylvania, I came across this wonderful, original wooden paddle wheel ferry. It is one of the last operating paddle wheel ferries operating in Pennsylvania. Even thought I usually keep exact records, I was having so much fun with taking this image; I forgot …
Church and Outhouse
Train Station, Providence Forge, VA
Townleys Milk Tower, Oklahoma, OK
This fantastic Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel and its Bruder band organ was the show piece of the Buckroe Beach Amusement Park in Hampton, Virginia. The park was pened in 1897 and demolished in 1987. Luckily, the Carousel was saved. It was restored, although without the original color scheme, and preserved as an attraction in downtown …
While on a rag-tag journey through the mountains of Virginia, I came upon this great General Store. The main thing I remembered about the trip was that my tape player went out and the only signal I could pick up was a static-ridden country radio station. Before the trip, I wasn’t much of a country …
The diner in this photo was an old “Stomping Ground” of mine. Growing up in Newport News, the Blue Star was a favorite watering hole and dining establishment back in the day. The diner is located on Warwick Boulevard near historic Hilton Village. It is a great place to grab a “Blue Plate Special” …
The bar in the photograph is a portion of the historic Oatman Hotel in Oatman, Arizona. This hotel is one of the last two-story Adobe buildings still surviving in the United States. It was also a well-known Hollywood hide-a-way during the glory days of the Hollywood era. The town was the first place you hit …
The Main Street Grill, located in Hillsville, VA on Rt. 52 in Carroll County along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Originally built in the early 50’s as a Dairy Queen, it was reopened and converted to burger joint in 1988. The place, sadly, closed in September 2008.
I came upon the Triangle Diner in Winchester, VA on a road trip back from my brother’s place in West Virginia. I had mother with me and it turned out to be a great place for a late dinner on the way back to Norfolk. As I did not have my camera with me …