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 …