Vintage shots from days gone by!

last time I saw a house like that it was in Goldfind Nevada

 

Still there, Rhyolite, NV. Built in 1905, restored in 2005.

 

http://www.wicko.com/wiknerford.htm

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https://www.justauto.com.au/justcars/know/news/524d3e79-9246-4511-8ca8-dd245809b733

 

Can somebody enhance this and tell us all the SMALL print???

From this site: tripideas.org/the-history-of-rhyolite-nevada/

In 1906, in the old ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada a saloon owner named Tom Kelly, built a house out of bottles because lumber was scarce at the time. Reportedly he used some 50,000 beer, whiskey, soda and medicine bottles to build the structure which still stands today. Mr. Kelley was 76 years old when he built the house and it took him almost six months to complete.
The bottle house was restored and re-roofed by Paramount Pictures in 1925 for a movie setting. Afterwards it was given to the Beatty Improvement Association for maintenance as a historical site. It was leased to Louis J. Murphy and maintained as a museum by him and a woman named Bessie Stratton Moffat until he died in 1956. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thompson also lived in it, maintaining a museum and a relic shop. Tommy was a musician who played his accordion in the saloons of Rhyolite when it was a boom town. When the Thompsons died, their son, Evan Thompson maintained it for a while. He was the last known person to live in the house; but now resides in Pioneer, Nevada. Next to the bottle house is a "garden" of sculptures made of broken glass including miniature houses, bottle ropes, and whole bunch more glass junk, er... treasures.

 

Postcard image with some history


Under construction, ca. 1906. Maybe that's old Tom!

 

Another postcard image, apparently when the house was
in need of a periodic restoration!


One-time residents of the bottle house. Lou & Bessie?

<TABLE class=imageborder cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A tourist at Tom Kelly Bottle House, ca. 1940, Rhyolite, Nevada,
a ghost town in the Bullfrog Hills close to Death Valley.

 

Not a drive-in. That's at Jeri's Grill at Montrose and Western, in Chicago. Probably '71-'72. Maybe older, judging by the food prices.
They're still there and open all night. I eat there 4-5 times a month.

 

^^^Was there still copious amounts of porn available to you on this computer?^^^



BTW, is this photoshopped? The guys face is eerily in focus...

 

Wow! The guy was right on! My
computer looks *exactly* like
that one!!!!

Mart3406
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Good eye!


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He looks familiar Moe... but I just can't put my finger on who the shopped in guy is...

 

Not only in-focus ,but too big!

 

I have a big head... so I ignored it... LOL

 

Some Packards - circa 1937-'39
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Mart3406
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I think the head was 'choped from an actor who starred in the Pink Panther movies (inspector Dreyfus)

 

The big wheels must be to open the steam generator?


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1937 120

 

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Anybody up for some s-s-sight ssseeing???




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Th Th That looks like a 36 Sta-Sta-Sta-Studebaker coupe parked up there!
And the the there's a 36 Ford 3 window right behind it!




OOOO! It's a Dick-Dick-Dick-da-Dictator!






Uh-Uh-I'm Diggin the 36 Ford Rumbleseat ka-ka-ka-k-ka-ka-Coupe!







???? Su-Su-Sunday Drivers!




















Ll-Ll-Look! It's The Ex-Ex-Ex-Exxon Valdez!








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Uh....yeah....but just the bigger of the two
wheels. The smaller 'inner wheel' of course,
is a highly-modified '58 Edsel Tele-Touch wheel
- with the original hub-mounted shifter unit,
now used to calibrate, modulate, pollinate,
woof, tweet - and when necessary, even -
to reverse and cross-postulateeek:!) the
flux capacitor banks!! But about that steam
generator - just so you know - and just for
the record - there's a definite automotive
connection in that too! The steam generator
(and the control wheel for it, as well, by the
way) - at least the one powering my personal
computer anyway - is an original factory
'estiércol-fired' unit that I salvaged from the
bone-yard remains of a super-ultra-rare,
steam-powered '56 Henway "Velocitwat"
limousine, that was once jointly co-owned by
Andy Warhol and Zora Arkus-Duntov!!!

Mart3406 ("Official Henway Motors
Corporate Historian and Archivist - and
now, also, 'state of the art', steam-driven,
estiércol-fired, home computer expert
too!")
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Well maybe I can help you out with the estiercol supply




-or should we just call it bs?


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