September 27, 2014

Yesterday wasn't a down day for the blog, there was no internet where we stayed.  However we were at the same place yesterday afternoon as well as this morning.

Pioneer Village in Minden Nebraska.

Pioneer Village 

Pioneer Village, founded in 1953 has a lot of articles from our early lives that have been kept in more than 2 dozen buildings in Minden, Nebraska.

 There are 3 buildings with 300 automobiles from the beginning of the auto era up to the 70's

 Telephones, Ham radio equipment, and old computers are displayed.

 Does anyone remember Rawleigh salve?  How about the delivery people coming to your door?

This is old, but they are still being used even today.  Cablecars in San Francisco.

 The operator uses the foot pad at the bottom to give him more leverage when pulling the brake handles.

A quilt depicting the United States.

A photocopy of land grant #1 issued by the US

Model train cars from a hobby of years gone by.

Did you ever go to a school where they had one of these on the playground?

These were commonly used before indoor plumbing.

 Buildings were moved to the location.  This was an actual Pony Express Relay Station.

Grammie was smiling in this one.  She spent 3 years in a one room schoolhouse...with her mother.

Merry Go-round.

Radios

Stone from the  old "White House" was used in this fireplace.

 Medicines from a Pharmacists office.

Toy collections

The Electric Chair?????? Sure looks like it.

Remember seeing a picture of Tom's Mom and Dad in front of a car that looked like this one.

The pictures could go on and on.  Wore down 1 battery while taking all the pictures.

Pioneer Village might be a little out of the way, but if you have a chance, you will get a smile just from seeing a few things from your early lives...and maybe even say..we used to have one of those.

Be sure to look at the website at the top.