OT Dennis Hemingway, does this look familiar???

[greg g]

[dezeldoc]

Greg, it hasn't changed still looks like that!

[Dennis Hemingway]

Yes. I have two tire racks that came from that Richfield Station, My neighbor's father-in-law used to own that station, I'll just sent the photo to them. I also sent it to the owner of that corner now (Barstow Tire & Brake).

Dennis:eek:

Edited March 14, 2010 by Dennis Hemingway

[dezeldoc]

Dennis, i think that one guy in town has all the old signs hanging on his fence.

[greg g]

Is the road pictured Rt 66??

[greg g]

Here is another one you might recognize from down the road a piece.

[dezeldoc]

Nice 37 Ford P/U in front of the cafe!

[55 Fargo]

I would think anyone alive to remember this would remeber the sweat that went along with Desert Life before AC, very cool pic, always loved the Cal Desert region............

[hkestes41]

I would think anyone alive to remember this would remeber the sweat that went along with Desert Life before AC, very cool pic, always loved the Cal Desert region............

Maybe, but the guy with the stakebed in the foreground was delivering the cure.

[Dennis Hemingway]

Dennis, i think that one guy in town has all the old signs hanging on his fence.

Yea, That's Tom's Welding. He also has an original Dodge Plymouth sign that I'd love to get my hands on.

Dennis:cool:

[Dennis Hemingway]

Is the road pictured Rt 66??

Yes, that is at First & Main Street, or the junction of Route 66 and Route 91. The 66 goes to Needles and the 91 goes to Las Vegas.

Dennis:cool:

[Dennis Hemingway]

I would think anyone alive to remember this would remeber the sweat that went along with Desert Life before AC, very cool pic, always loved the Cal Desert region............

I didn't get A/C on my car until 2008. You can see it hanging on the pass window.

Dennis:D

[Tony Cipponeri]

I would think anyone alive to remember this would remeber the sweat that went along with Desert Life before AC, very cool pic, always loved the Cal Desert region............

Hey the Grandeur Cafe has AIR, must have been a first. Tony C

[Dennis Hemingway]

Hey the Grandeur Cafe has AIR, must have been a first. Tony C

I bet that was a Swamp Cooler, You have been in Needles a swamp cooler with the humidity in Needles would have the water dripping off you.

Dennis;)

[TodFitch]

Hey the Grandeur Cafe has AIR, must have been a first. Tony C

I guess I am just about the youngest age to remember this and I've not seen it documented any where and it is from my early childhood recollections. But even into the early 1960s you could still see remnants of the old advertising jargon on signs for establishments in small towns in the Arizona and California desert areas:

"air cooled" or "air conditioned" meant the place was cooled by a swamp box.

"refrigerated" meant what we now call air conditioned.

I would strongly suspect that the Grandeur Cafe was cooled by swamp box.

[Tony Cipponeri]

Yeah, I bet you guys are right, that probably was a swamp cooler in the cafe. Tod, your memories must have been from your EARLY childhood days, you little whipper snapper. LOL Tony C

[Don Coatney]

I guess I am just about the youngest age to remember this and I've not seen it documented any where and it is from my early childhood recollections. But even into the early 1960s you could still see remnants of the old advertising jargon on signs for establishments in small towns in the Arizona and California desert areas:

"air cooled" or "air conditioned" meant the place was cooled by a swamp box.

"refrigerated" meant what we now call air conditioned.

I would strongly suspect that the Grandeur Cafe was cooled by swamp box.

Dont forget "cross ventelated". This ment there were 2 windows (winders as my uncle used to say) and possibly a fan.

[1940plymouth]

This was taken in Fletcher, Ok. The building now is a combination of a DMV, drug store and luncheonette. You can still see the old painted sign on the brick outside wall. My son lives there and he sent the photo last evening

[1940plymouth]

Opps, forgot the photo, no use being brain dead unless you act it:)