Mill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon old Fort Worth map when silk canopies were still

when silk canopies were still being argued into existence and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of shroud lines

the weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

2595725 Two Section Foldable Game Table (ping Pong Table) by Kenneth E Sutton 1952 Sutton's engineering filing hinges along the centerline like a book closing on a rally

the same hands that hammered copper into a colossus for New York harbor first having shaped a beast from Vosges sandstone

Mill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon old Fort Worth map when silk canopies were stillMill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon arrives in tidy cabins lined along the Columbia's wind carved bluffs, neon vacancy glow flickering above gravel drives where Packards and Fords idled after the long haul up the Gorge. Roadside motor courts like this one basalt cliffs rising behind, the river running wide and gray come cataloged in linen postcards from the auto touring heyday of the 1930s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards