It was a really slow day… in other words, I didn’t do nothing (of importance). We went in for breakfast and then hit the Farmers Market…
picked up some Banana,nut, Carmel muffins for later (since we already had breakfast. failed to get that picture… was busy paying out.
Then we got home and just did a bunch of nothing, although I spent maybe 2 more hours on the coin collection. Had a box of old pennies (special ones) that I had to inventory… whew, I got a lot of really old ones… Anyway about 4:30 and we hadn’t had dinner I figured to go hit the Pawnee Old Time Saturday Night (OTSN)… I also though we might stop at the Morrison Café and have dinner… we should of waited for Pawnee and had the National Champion Indian Taco… they were there fixing up what appeared to be some really good Indian Taco’s… but oh well, I had catfish at the café and it was really good… and the price was very reasonable.
We rolled into Pawnee about 6 PM and figured to make a walk along the cars (it was billed as bring it all and show it all ) then hit the Dick Tracy Museum.
We could have had bar b que as there were several that had cooked up some bar b que on the street as well… Anyway we started the walk… they had about 3 blocks on both sides filled with old and new cars…
Now that is a LOW-Rider… they sat just inches off the pavement…
They even had a special jeep section… kept them off the street… bunch of rough riders…
Nice 67 El Camino… I had a 69 once but this is a lot nicer than mine was…
Right next to the El was this Double Bug…
There were a lot of trucks there as well… big ones, and olds ones and fixed up and not so fixed up… This one probably should have been with the Jeeps… ha!
Note the radiator over flow in the middle of the picture…..
oh and since it is Pawnee Bill Rodeo weekend there were some queens and candidates hanging around too…
Nice Orange cars…
And some really nice Blue cars… 1953 Mercury… and I think from the looks it was original – restored… no replacement engine and other parts… what a classic.
And since there were a lot of people in town most of the stores were open so we checked out some of the ones next to the Museum… that is an early 1900 drug store cabinet… he just has it priced at $20000….
Since we had the time we also made it out to the Pawnee lake and checked out the old WPA bath house… really nice building but the swimming hole associated with it …. is dry?
Not sure why, other than liability problems maybe? although a lot of the equipment is fairly new…
There were some tubers on the lake having a great time… got this picture and you can tell… he is about to come off… I missed the off shot by….
Just that much…
We headed back to town and stopped again to check out the music as they had not started when we were there earlier…
There were a few more cars… and this… mini dragster…
I don’t remember ever seeing an in-line-6 with 5 carbs on it? but this one had it? oh well… we listened to the music a bit and then struck out for home…you know we turn in to pumpkins if we stay out too late…
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