Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Last Call for O'Donnell!

We will be driving through O'Donnell again, but it is not likely we will stop there ever again, having seen as much of the town as there is to see.




Meanwhile, these pictures suffice to occupy this book of pages in the aether, in cyberville, over yonder there...




Ponder this ye mighty: if a GIANT MAN like Hoss Cartwright can be laid low, a man who starred in a movie with Raquel Welch and Frank Sinatra, what hope is there for the rest of us, eh? Eh? What hope is there for O'Donnell? Eh? Eh? These things too shall pass away. And you are not half the man Hoss Cartwright was, especially if you are a girl. I like to think of Dan Blocker as "Hoss". "Hoss" is an archetype. "Hoss" was also pure fiction and in that respect much like John Wayne. Think about it.









 

Monday, October 19, 2015

O'Donnell!

The Heritage Museum!
 More apparitions! Or, bad photography...



But is there really such a thing as "bad" photography? I tend to think not...



 I like to photograph the "things not seen"!




This peculiar stop sign was out in the street, in front of the Heritage Museum. We had not seen one of these before, and it must have been an old time small town thing.





Saturday, October 17, 2015

Examining O'Donnell

We're taking a close look.



 The Heritage Museum now houses the Dan Blocker collection. It was staffed by a volunteer that day, even though it was Sunday. We were surprised the museum was open.
 The first "apparition"-- is it a hat??


 The grim reaper's implement-- somehow appropriate?

 Entertainment, from the old days...
 No more circus, no more "rodeo grounds"...


I vaguely remember the movie referenced here... odd cast.