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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Tahoe Beer: 1940
March 1940. "Genoa, Nevada. Stores on Main Street." A former Mormon outpost, Genoa was the first settlement in the Nevada Territory. Medium-format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Circular items
What are the round metallic things on the brickwork of the building?
[They're anchor plates. -tterrace]
If that's a cottonwood
If that's a cottonwood, I'm a Dutchman. The leaves are completely wrong for a cottonwood. Them's willows of some kind.
Cool, Clear Water
Looks like the water tap is to fill the (now defunct?) horse trough. The bucket will help you fill your radiator. Only a little at a time if the water is too cold.
Radiator filler.
I love the design of that extended faucet for filling radiators.
Famous in film
In the 1973 Don Siegel film, "Charley Varrick", Genoa portrayed the fictional town of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. The old courthouse stood in for the exterior of the fictional Western Fidelity Bank, which is robbed by Charley (Walter Matthau) and his partners. The bank interior shots were filmed in nearby Minden.
Water source for the Radiator
Did you notice the water supply a few feet in front of the Ford? Do you think it's configured to provide radiator top-offs? Thanks for the more recent photo.
The Gnarly Cottonwood
No mistaking the deeply fissured bark of the Cottonwood. If it weren't for these trees, the Great Basin would be largely treeless.
A vanished brand
Tahoe Beer was brewed by the Carson Brewing Company in Carson City from 1913 until 1948. Like countless other local breweries, the Carson Brewing Company couldn't survive the postwar consolidation of the brewery industry into a small number of national companies. The former brewery building in Carson City now houses the Brewery Arts Center.
Just across the line in California there's a new outfit called the Tahoe Mountain Brewing Company, so in a sense the name lives on.
The Wild West
went to Genoa to die. Unexpectedly recovering, it has made Genoa a respectable tourist destination and the home of America's Oldest Thirst Parlor.
Lemonolyuf
Curious graffito on the trough. Lemon water for horses?
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