My breakfast was huge and very good. No licking the plate this time. |
I was planning on riding down to Condi and Juniors place but I-35 was getting drenched. Even the route I picked looked questionable. |
The Lebold Mansion in Abilene, Kansas |
The house that President Eisenhower lived in most of his life. |
A museum and the presidential library is located here as well. |
Around the corner was an unrelated museum that was a fun visit. |
Some Army and firearm history |
Some early American lifestyle history |
Some interesting college history |
You'll never hear a girl say that today. |
As a kid, I loved going upstairs and playing their old bellows organ. Nobody else loved it. |
A lot of phone history in here. |
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I remember living this......on both sides of the picture |
They had some cool stuff out back |
It was funny to see the old stuff, but then right there with it something modern that they forgot to remove |
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Those stairs were steep and about a 14" rise each. |
How does a plastic ice chest fit in this picture? |
They called this a vane less wind mill. It actually had a lot of vanes |
John Deere model B |
The Farmall H and the JD B were a couple of the most popular tractors |
Old sawmill |
Not sure what was going on here but it sure smelled like something to do with chickens |
I thought Lucky Al would like these next few pictures. |
Inside this building is a Carousel |
The steam engine that ran it |
Mfg. here in Abilene, KS |
The music box |
They could haul this from town to town in 4 horse drawn wagons. It took 4 men 4 hour to put it up, and the same to take it down. |
Portable Jail from the era. |
This is a counter for the old rotary dial phones. It was very interesting to watch it work. |
I used to see phone booths like these in nice buildings |
This is the name of the museum |
Or maybe it's this |
Everywhere I looked there were fields of corn so I ate some while rolling down the road. |
Lots of these too! |
But they were really hard to dodge when I cleared the rise. |
Looks like blue sky in another couple of miles |
Hundreds of oil wells to go with the wind power |
I don't know if they still use it or not, but it is still connected to the grid. |
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