| 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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