Photographs of many different subjects and associated notes and comments.
In the previous posts I described the train I was building for holiday decor. This is it completed. You can see the Santa train to the left. This train is inspired by the electric ride-on railroad in the toy department of the Rhodes Department Store in Tacoma in the ’50s …
Well, not exactly the railroad! This is one of the passenger cars that I mentioned in my last post. It is partially painted with a little bit more to go. There’s a lot of pin-striping on this project. In the post from the other day I mentioned that these holiday …
Back in the 1950s and through the ’60s the great place to do in Tacoma, Washington was Rhodes Department Store. The big store downtown was a treasure chest of cool things. But, at Christmas time the coolest of the cool was up in the toy department. The Milwaukee Railroad sponsored, …
There’s nothing more refreshing that a nice walk in the autumn amongst the multi-colored leaves. Around here one of the best places to enjoy the outdoors is Tawasentha Park in Guilderland. The photo on the right is from a recent excursion to the park to see what was what on …
To many people, “New York” is that place along the coast that is covered in concrete and large buildings. The fact of the matter is that New York is a lot more than just “The City“. Residents outside of the metropolis categorize the state into three distinct regions. There’s Upstate, …
