Wigwam Village #2 - 1940

[Alex Burr - hester_nec]

Came across an interesting photo @ http://www.shorpy.com/

On the right hand side, scroll down to "Navigation" and click on "Rural America".

 

 

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Edited June 23, 2007 by hester_nec

[Keep the Show on the Road!]

Came across an interesting photo @ http://www.shorpy.com/

On the right hand side, scroll down to "Navigation" and click on "Rural America".

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

 

Quite the photo source! I added it to my favorites.

 

Thanks again for a great tip!

 

Keep the Show on the Road

[Dave Reese]

Alex,

 

Thanks for the great source...you seldom get to see such great vintage photos with this good of resolution when searching the web. I am afraid I will now be spending even more time at the computer...

[Alex Burr - hester_nec]

Alex,

 

Thanks for the great source...you seldom get to see such great vintage photos with this good of resolution when searching the web. I am afraid I will now be spending even more time at the computer...

 

I would almost suggest that our great friends at American Road add another category to the forum list - perhaps something like "web links to photo sources" or something of that idea. I know a lot of us stumble around the net and trip over sites like this - might prove interesting to have one place to put the links to them.

 

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

[Keep the Show on the Road!]

I went back to your recommended site this afternoon and there was this terrific high resolution photo of the end of the 1951 Oldsmobile assembly line, complete with a fellow with what looks like a wood block and hammer “adjusting” a piece of chrome. It should be titled, “Quality Control in 1951.” The actual title is “New Oldses: 1951” The photo is terrific.

 

Thanks again for the tip!

 

Keep the Show on the Road

[Keep the Show on the Road!]

Alex put us onto the photo site at http://www.shorpy.com/, and there I discovered something maybe we should all be alert to. The wonderful photograph from the George Grantham Bain Collection (below) (look for the Bain Collection) led me to the following websites describing the around the world Great Race of 1908, and announcing the Great Race of 2008.

 

http://www.thegreatautorace.com

 

http://greatrace.com/greatrace/gr2008/index.php

 

 

 

I know very little of either the 1908 or the 2008 races, but I thought they might be of interest. Here follows an excerpt from the journal of the Thomas Flyer 1908 team:

 

By noon on March 8th we reached Cheyenne where cowboys and cowgirls were doing their stuff, riding ahead on their horses, firing guns into the air. A band escorted us through the unpaved streets, and at the Capitol we were tendered a reception. I may have neglected making any mention of the numerous banquets to which we were bidden, and which Monty and Williams had generally attended. My first duty was the care of the Flyer, and I could not share in these festivities. By the time I finished work, the affairs were usually long over.

I noticed the countershaft housing which we had replaced in Chicago was again cracking. One side had a hole large enough to put your finger into! Since the crowds would always gather to inspect our car when we stopped, my main desire was to get the Flyer away from them as we did not want to expose this weakness. Lynn Mathewson, our Denver Thomas dealer (whose knowledge of the next section made him the logical choice to drive on to Ogden), told me about Elmer Lovejoy’s garage in Laramie. We could reach Elmer’s on the following day, where this work could be done with less notice.

 

Keep the Show on the Road!

Edited June 24, 2007 by Keep the Show on the Road!

[Keep the Show on the Road!]

I would almost suggest that our great friends at American Road add another category to the forum list - perhaps something like "web links to photo sources" or something of that idea. I know a lot of us stumble around the net and trip over sites like this - might prove interesting to have one place to put the links to them.

 

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

 

I think you are on to something! I frequently recall that I saw or followed a link, but forget exactly where I saw it. One example is the travel sites of our members.

 

I do have some reservations and suggestions (What else is new?).

 

First I think the sites should be two lane road travel oriented. For example I maintain a Civil War site which is the most interesting on the web (Ha!), but it has nothing to do with auto travel, and has no business added to a list of sites here.

 

Second, I believe there should be at least two broad sub categories. One would be members' two lane sites. We have several good ones! The other category would be sites we have discovered in out surfing that are worth noting.

 

Third, if we are going to list sites ,we should take the time to describe what is on the site so that it can be located in a search of the forum. I don’t think it is fair to just say, “I find the following ten sites interesting.”

 

Forth, we add more work for our moderators each time we do something like this, because it has to be created, but also because it is subject to abuse. and involves at least some monitoring. (I am going to ask Pat and Jennifer how members can pitch in to help with some routine tasks on the forum.)

 

All that said, why don’t you post your excellent idea as a new thread in Suggestions and see what kind of response it gets. I will certainly add my two bits worth of support.

 

Keep the Show on the Road!

Edited June 24, 2007 by Keep the Show on the Road!

[Alex Burr - hester_nec]

I think you are on to something! I frequently recall that I saw or followed a link, but forget exactly where I saw it. One example is the travel sites of our members.

 

I do have some reservations and suggestions (What else is new?).

 

First I think the sites should be two lane road travel oriented. For example I maintain a Civil War site which is the most interesting on the web (Ha!), but it has nothing to do with auto travel, and has no business added to a list of sites here.

 

Second, I believe there should be at least two broad sub categories. One would be members' two lane sites. We have several good ones! The other category would be sites we have discovered in out surfing that are worth noting.

 

Third, if we are going to list sites ,we should take the time to describe what is on the site so that it can be located in a search of the forum. I don’t think it is fair to just say, “I find the following ten sites interesting.”

 

Forth, we add more work for our moderators each time we do something like this, because it has to be created, but also because it is subject to abuse. and involves at least some monitoring. (I am going to ask Pat and Jennifer how members can pitch in to help with some routine tasks on the forum.)

 

All that said, why don’t you post your excellent idea as a new thread in Suggestions and see what kind of response it gets. I will certainly add my two bits worth of support.

 

Keep the Show on the Road!

 

 

I followed your suggestion and put a post in the suggestion box. I did add that I could add a link to other roady sites on my web page - as I've done for Hudson members web sites on my Hudson web site (which is THE best site on the web, by the way. hehehehehe - just joking, every site is the best!!!)

 

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

[DennyG]

Came across an interesting photo @ http://www.shorpy.com/

On the right hand side, scroll down to "Navigation" and click on "Rural America".

Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

That's a pretty cool website in general and our recent stay at the Wigwams made that particular photo extra interesting. All of the buildings are still there and so is most of the neon sign. In 1940 the main building housed a restaurant as indicated by the word "EAT" over the door. When the restaurant shut down, they removed the "EAT AND" from the neon but the tepee outline and "SLEEP IN A WIGWAM" remain to this day. That Red Ball moving van behind the pumps is quite a classic, too.

[Jennifer]

That's a pretty cool website in general and our recent stay at the Wigwams made that particular photo extra interesting. All of the buildings are still there and so is most of the neon sign. In 1940 the main building housed a restaurant as indicated by the word "EAT" over the door. When the restaurant shut down, they removed the "EAT AND" from the neon but the tepee outline and "SLEEP IN A WIGWAM" remain to this day. That Red Ball moving van behind the pumps is quite a classic, too.

 

 

Absolutely! Wow, that photo is so clear I feel like I could step right into it! I can't tell from any of my photos (on our trip 2 months ago or from 2003) of the neon sign, but I thought at one point, I could faintly make out the outline of the word EAT on the sign. I could be dreaming though! There was a documentary about cool roadside buildings a few years ago which featured the Cave City Wigwams (and a certain Lincoln Highway author from Pennsylvania was in it if I recall correctly...) and they showed photos of the restaurant and had some interesting interviews about that era.

[BabyBoomerBob]

Hmmmmm. The caption of the picture says it's on the highway south of Bardstown. Any chance this was the Wigwam Village #1?

[DennyG]

Hmmmmm. The caption of the picture says it's on the highway south of Bardstown. Any chance this was the Wigwam Village #1?

I don't think so. "south of Bardstown" could apply to either location and the sign is an exact match of the one at WV#2 today. Also there are three of the tepees visible (one just barely) in the picture that seem to match the big arc of WV#2. WV#1 only had six guest room tepees and apparently all were behind the office and restrooms. Some fairly small photos of WV#1 can be seenhere.