Showing posts with label Big Chief Drive-In. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Hail to the chiefs: Some Indian imagery seen along the way

ImageWall Drug, Wall, South Dakota

ImageThe Red Feather Lodge, Tusayan, Arizona, one mile from the Grand Canyon

ImageThe Wigwam Motel, Rialto, California

ImageThe Shawmut Diner, New Bedford, Massachusetts

ImageI shot this back in 2002 in Colorado Springs. Not sure if it's still there.

ImageIndian Motorcycles were manufactured in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History has a great permanent exhibit about them...

Image...including this awesome photo of the great Jane Russell taking one out for a spin.

ImageLittle Big Horn, North Dakota

ImageTuba City, Arizona

ImageHaight Ashbury, San Francisco, California

ImageThe kitsch-o-tastic Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, Nebraska has some great "exhibits", including this diorama of the old Sioux Trading Post...

Image...this brave playing checkers...

Image...and a fabulous Muffler Man Indian out back.

ImageThis fellow is known as the Big F Indian and he stands in front of the Conundrum Wine Bistro in Freeport, Maine.

ImageThis fellow beckons all to the Toh-Atin Gallery of Durango, Colorado's parking lot

ImageA fine item from the Ohio Turnpike Rest Area gift shop

ImageOutside the truly wonderful Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyoming

ImageThe Big Chief Drive-In, Glencoe, Alabama

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Whether or not you agree it's cool to objectify a race of great people, you see a lot of it while traveling across the USA. Native Americans, in particular. So here, without reservation, we bring you a few sights that may or may not 'wam the cockles of your heart. More pow wow to you, and how.