Road Trip Spring 2018 - 2 - Days of ’76 Museum, Deadwood SD
I love "Old Tech". There's nothing cooler to my mind than a 1905 motorcycle with automatic intake valves and belt drive... unless it's a honking huge steam engine with foundry curlicues everywhere.
So I like "old car museums", and will settle for an "old horse-drawn" museum, if there's nothing better. I wasn't expecting much from the Days of ’76 Museum , in Deadwood SD. O-o-o-o-p-s !!
The fun thing about this museum is the "working" wagons. I'm a city boy. All I know about horse-drawn wagons is what I see in movies, and that's mainly carriages. But of course there had to be wagons for carrying "stuff", too. And the Days of ’76 Museum's collection includes a bunch of them, from general transport, like this one, to specialized rigs we'll see later...
The photos are all a bit fuzzy, after going through the process of reducing their size to something that will upload in a reasonable time. The originals are fairly clean, should anyone want one.
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We've come to see that sometimes it's the "little" museums that are the most fun.
I forget that they had as many different wagons back then as we do motor driven vehicles.
Yes. It's kinda face-palm: "Well... duh!! Of course they had different kinds of wagons for different needs!"
But hey! All we see in the movies is buggies and buckboards. It's Hollywood's fault if we don't know nothin'!
I like the contrast between the big rigs and the sports model.
Dear Brother Bob Nelson: Deadwood makes the best lumbar.
Another winner.
Please keep these travelogs coming.
If you get a chance, go to Sturges, SD.
E.
Great photos and ya gotta love the wagons, all of them.
Well, if I aren't mistaken, that there big rig that's all green, was used to move people west, it was the early version of the U-Haul, except ya had ta buy it back then. I also seem to remember them in the TV series "Wagon Train" I think it was the last time they were on film. They needed something that big to haul all their things from their old homes.
Love those old work wagons, like the milk wagon and, the postal wagon, I can do without the hearse though.
Great photos Bob.
Thank you.
Interesting to see the evolution of suspension systems, metal leaf springs facing up, down and each other.
That’s why old motorcycles are fun. They have all sorts of cool dead-end tech. They had neither the high-strength materials nor the precision machining that modern constructors have...
... but the machines functioned!
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