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Day 5: October 6, 2024 To the Easel Comment via blog |
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Penny's Diner isn't
a classic but it is a diner and I got a classic
breakfast there.
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Marysville has a pony express museum housed inside a pony express barn but
I left town long before the museum opened for the day. As in Saint Joseph,
the morning sun makes Marysville's pony express statue a silhouette from
the road facing side but, also like in Saint Joseph, there are other
sides.
A trio of phenomenal Lifetiles by Rufus Butler Seder stands beside the statue. A readable version of the text at the bottom of the middle panel is here. The tiles remind me of the magic rings that once came in Cracker Jack boxes or the cover of Their Satanic Majesties Request. I'm sorry but no decent comparison comes to mind for younger folks. An attempt to capture three different views of one of the panels is here but it's not very successful. Check out the much better stuff on the Seder site. |
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This brick wall and sign stand near US-36 to tell
people that there is a pony express station four miles away. There is
another sign at the station. There is also a
visitors center there but I was too early for it to be open.
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This schoolhouse is west of Hanover near the beginning of a roughly 10
mile long section of well maintained unpaved PPOO. It was built in the
1880s but I can't make out the year's last digit in the
wall mounted stone.
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I first snapped a picture of this sign because I'm on my way to visit a
daughter-in-law and grandson named Morrow and thought it would be cute.
But as I drove through the town, I learned that it was
home to the first bulldozer and turned off to
check it out. At the park, I not only found a replica of that first
bulldozer but a short lesson on Morrowville's
history.
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I passed through Morrowville on a paved north-south bit of the PPOO but
soon turned west to begin a stretch of about twenty-five unpaved miles
with little more than some hay bales and a lonely 1869 cemetery alongside
it.
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The Blair Theater
first opened in Belleville, KS, in 1928 and reopened in 2008 after major
renovations.
In Phillipsburg, the Majestic Theater has been a movie house since 1924 but the building is older than that. The modern signage was installed in 2011. |
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I knew of the restored gas stations in Norton, KS, but not the theater. As
I was photographing the Norton Theater, Ethan, one of the theater's two
managers, came out an we spoke with me a bit before leaving. The theater
first opened in 1948 and was restored and reopened in 1993.
The Sinclair station is said to be from the 1940s and the Conoco from the 1930s. |
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You don't have to be looking for the
Big Easel to see it. I wasn't, and I did. It is in
Goodland, KS, where I ended my day.
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