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U.S. Veterans Day (Slim Buttes, SD memorial (0392))

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:15 +0000

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Tattered flag and cemetery commemorating the Battle of Slim Buttes.

Posted in honor of U.S. Veterans Day (November 11) and the young men who lost their lives in battles determined all too often by far away civilians. (This is a re-posting of a previously posted photo).

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0901)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:13:12 +0000

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It's California, you can't get away from the filming industry! In the center of the picture, vehicles for some filming that was occurring on the main Soda Lake Road.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0900)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:12:48 +0000

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From Elkhorn Grade Road.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0899)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:12:27 +0000

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From Elkhorn Grade Road. The tower is probably water storage for the cattle ranch that is at the lower elevations along the road.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0898)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:12:05 +0000

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Looking north from Elkhorn Grade Road. The road running across the grasslands is Simmler Soda Lake Road, which is parallel to and east of the main Soda Lake Road for Carrizo Plains.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0897)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:11:48 +0000

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At the peak on Elkhorn Grade Road. The weather that day was relatively cold for the area (in the high 40's) and varied between overcast and clear.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0896)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:11:17 +0000

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From near the highest point on Elkhorn Grade Road. The curved and the straight gravel road visible in the lower portion of the picture is Elkhorn Grade road. Barely visible in almost the exact center of the picture is a truck on CA-166.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0895)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:10:54 +0000

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Elkhorn Grade Road. Most of the road is well-graded gravel and two lanes wide, but in the higher elevations it narrows down to one lane. The mountain in the distance is probably Mount Pinos.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0894)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:10:42 +0000

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From Elkhorn Grade Road looking east. The green area across the lower center of the picture is Maricopa and the oil fields near it.

Kern - Elkhorn Grade Rd. (0891)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:10:14 +0000

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Looking north, from Elkhorn Grade Road.

Lusk, WY (0617)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:14:02 +0000

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"The Lusk Light and Power Plant", built in 1919. I had planned just to stop in Lusk for a snack, but I saw this when coming in and pulled off to find it. Unfortunately, I couldn't get close enough for a good shot, but did discover a surprising number of interesting buildings while exploring.

Lusk, WY (0618)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:13:33 +0000

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Lusk had a surprising number of building with porcelain brick fronts and in streamline moderne style. Not what I'd expect for a small, rural, Wyoming town. This public works building, with large curved windows, must have been a showroom (maybe a car dealership?) at some point in time.

Lusk, WY (0619)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:13:11 +0000

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Though you can't tell from this picture, the front of this building is also porcelain brick. I'm not sure what the building's design would be considered, but do find the font used for the building name to be interesting.

Lusk, WY (0620)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:12:52 +0000

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Another streamline moderne design building, with porcelain brick fronting. The sun was wrong for catching the shine from the porcelain brick, but you can see some of it in the reflection of the awning on the left side of the building.

Lusk, WY (0621)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:12:25 +0000

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Yet another streamline moderne design building, with porcelain brick fronting. It appears to originally have had a very open front with large windows, with those removed and replaced with paneling at some later date.

Jay Em, WY (0624)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:12:00 +0000

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Jay Em, Wyoming, a very small village in eastern Wyoming. Per Wikipedia (link at end), this was the center of the village and the tall building on the left was a restaurant - feed store - general store - post office. The town was a service center for local ranchers from 1915 through the 1930's, but with the advent of the automobile and easy travel to larger towns (Lusk), the town went into decline. I saw no explanation for why the main street was so wide or if it was ever paved. The dog was the only sign of life that I saw and was, fortunately, friendly.

Jay Em, WY (0625)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:11:28 +0000

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A minature town created next to the general store in Jay Em.

Jay Em, WY (0626)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:11:01 +0000

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What was the Jay Em bank, Farmers State Bank.

Jay Em, WY (0627)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:10:22 +0000

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Gas station, garage, and water tower (without tank), in Jay Em, WY.

Rural Wyoming (0628)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:10:07 +0000

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Snow fence.