Great Northern's Greatest Train [1964]

From our collection of old travel memorabilia, an advertising brochure featuring the Empire Builder, a transcontinental train serving passengers between Chicago and Seattle. We believe this was published in 1964.

A few enlargements follow ...

Remember those "movie" cameras from the 60s?

John loves steaks so this looks pretty good to him.

Do you enjoy travelling this much?

A "sleeper" is great for overnight trips!

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Art of Winold Reiss -- Wades-In-The-Water

From our collection of old postcards, another in a series of cards published by the Great Northern Railway featuring Native Americans. This card is Winold Reiss's portrait of Wades-In-The-Water, Blackfoot Indian Chieftain. 

Previous posts in this series ...

Introduction and card featuring Angry Bull

Julia-Wades-In-The-Water

Mountain Flower

Middle Rider

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Union Pacific -- Cattle Country

From our old postcard collection here is a card published by the Union Pacific Railroad, number 9 of a series featuring each state served by the railroad. This card features Montana, and, although uncertain, we think it was published in the 1940s. We do not know the name of the artist or the total number of cards in the series.

Cowboy, Cattle, Train, and Mountains

No. 9 in a series featuring states served by the railroad.

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It's 12:12 All The Time

Report from the Emerald City ...

Pemco's Time and Temp
Usually an accurate indicator of time
and temperature.
Seattle, Washington, USA

Clock is stuck on 12:12 ... hmmmm

It does feel warmer than 12 degrees!

Oh ...

Yes!

For those of you not into football, here's the story:  This weekend the NFL's 49th Superbowl will be played on Sunday. Our home town team, the Seahawks, will play against the New England Patriots. In football rules, a team can have only 11 players on the field at one time. Seattle's fans have become known as the 12th player ... in the stands, cheering them on. Folks who are into football here love this, others may find it crazy. All around the city the 12s are showing their support for the team in the big game. The Seahawks were winner's in last year's game. Can they do it two years in a row?

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Recent Skies -- The Emerald City

To capture a large part of the sky we took lots of single shots and combined them into panoramas. Yes, some cameras, including ours, will create them for you automatically. We still like doing it manually with some software. The software tries really hard to put a 3-dimensional scene into a 2-dimensional image and presents you with a result that may look strange. Not filling in the edges or cropping ... well, some like it and some don't. How about you?

Skyscrapers at Sunrise

Morning Sky
Looking Northwest

Emerald City from Beacon Hill

Linking up today with SkyWatch Friday.. Thanks to the SkyWatch hosts!

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Fun All the Time in Buffalo [1954]

From our old postcard collection we are going back to 1954 to have "Fun all the time" at the Paradise Ranch in Buffalo, Wyoming ...

Postmark is strong but writing has faded so much
we can't read all of it.

A good fence and some nice looking horses.
These are called "real photo" postcards
among collectors.

 This one was not used.

We posted another card from Paradise Ranch last year in this post.

Paradise Ranch is still in operation ... check out their website here.

Linking up today with Good Fences ... thank you Tex!

Does the thought of a vacation at a guest ranch in the USA Rocky Mountains sound interesting to you?

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Vintage Selfie -- Cowboy Artist -- L. H. "Dude" Larsen [1940s]

Cowboy Artist - L. H. "Dude" Larsen
A "selfie" so to speak.
70 years, or so, before selfies became popular.

Back of the card with poetry.

Painting the west ...

How do you like the Dude's selfie? :-)

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