1937 Vintage Road Trip Scrapbook - Part 22, Yellowstone Part 3

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Even MORE Yellowstone!

The Johnson family is still in Yellowstone, soaking up the beauty. This next page has wonderful old postcards of; Giant Geyser Cone, Grizzly Bears at Otter Creek Feeding Grounds, and Emerald Pool. There's also a simple map of the park, and of course, Joan's drawings of flowers, which I featured in the previous post.

More postcards and another of Joan's drawings. 

Next to the top postcard of Morning Glory Pool, Joan writes, "Filled with pure water over 200-degrees in temperature, never erupts or boils - always remaining quiescent like the flower for which it is named. It is 23 ft across and about 29 ft deep. The narrow fissure supplying this hot spring penetrates the earth to unknown depths."

The other two postcards on this page are of Tower Falls and the Mammoth Hot Spring Terraces. I also like the little advertisement Joan included on this page. 'Try Ten Litening Gasoline; Made in the West for Use in the West.' I believe it was a window sticker. The company was part of the Yale Oil Corporation in Billings, Montana.

Below are two more cool old postcards, the first again of Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces, and the next of Jupiter Springs. The cartoon on the bottom of the page says, "The wife insisted on a basement so we could have a ping pong table." There's also the awesome brochure, which I show in more detail farther below.

Accommodations and Services at the Disposal of Visitors to Yellowstone Park, 1937:

Look at the prices for 1937 lodging (including meals!)!

That's it for the Johnsons in Yellowstone.

Next up - Through Wyoming towards South Dakota!

1937 Vintage Road Trip Scrapbook - Part 21 - Yellowstone, Part 2

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More Yellowstone

I don't know where the Johnsons stayed in Yellowstone. Maybe they drove on through in single day (which would be a shame.) They may have camped or stayed in one of the lodges or inns. Hard to tell from the scrapbook. 

Below are close-up of the postcards from the above page. I like how it looks like there's a face within the billowing steam of Old Faithful. Below the following postcard, our intrepid reporter Joan writes, "150 ft high. This is the most celebrated picture ever taken of this famous geyser, which with clock-like regularity gives its exhibitions at intervals of 60 to 80 minutes..." I believe there's another line written under this, but it's too faded to read.

Below is a postcard of Giant Geyser, of which Joan writes, "This geyser continues each display for an hour and a half. Its intervals of quiet between eruptions vary from six to fourteen days."

Below is a postcard of the Old Faithful Inn, which was constructed in 1904. I love this old building, and spent many evenings inside, writing, reading, and listening to the piano player while having a few cocktails. If you want to see a couple blog posts of pics I took inside the Inn, you can find them here   and  here.

Among the scrapbook pages of Yellowstone, Joan showed some of her drawing skills with pics of flowers. Below is a yellow waterlilly.

Below is a Cedar Juniperus Scopulorum (aka Rocky Mountain Juniper)

Last but not least is Joan's drawing of a giant daisy.

Believe it or not, there are a few more pages that Joan dedicated to their time in Yellowstone.

So on to Part 22!

A Yellowstone Interlude - Lake Lodge - 2014 Author Tour

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Day 7 of Paige and my 2014 Author Tour (trademark) brought us to Lake Lodge. It has a much more laid back feel than the Lake Yellowstone Hotel - and is much more affordable. The Lodge itself doesn't have any rooms inside, but it rents out cabins. Some, like the one we stayed in, are pretty...well, I guess you could say cozy.

Really cozy...

They do have larger cabins, too, but we were trying to save some cha-ching.

The Lodge building itself has a nice long porch with a great view of Lake Yellowstone.

Paige hanging out on the porch

Inside it's nice and comfortable. It has the prerequisite gift shop and a cafeteria, as well as comfy chairs, nice writing desks and a fireplace.

Paige took this picture of an elk at dusk, and even though it was taken with a digital camera, it looks like it was a double exposure. I think it looks pretty cool:

Whoa...dude!

The next day, we made our way to the Grand Tetons and Jackson, Wyoming.

Thanks for stopping by. Here's part 'next' of our 2014 Author Tour.

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A Yellowstone Interlude - Lake Yellowstone Hotel - 2014 Author Tour

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They just did a refurbishing of the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, and they were having the official grand opening the day after we were there. But they had a fresh coat of paint on, new furniture, and if I knew more about the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, I could point out other changes. But I don't. So  won't.

Anyway, the same guy who was the architect for the Old Faithful Inn was also responsible for the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, which is pretty much 180-degrees different from the Inn. The Lake Hotel is much more elegant. Refined. Instead of a fiddler, for example, they have a string quartet that plays in the evening.

I'd love to stay there, but until I'm pulling in more buckaroo bonzais, I'll have to wait, because the place is pricey!

Paige and I did, however, have lunch in their beautiful dining room. I had a turkey sandwich that was incredible. It had sliced turkey, thousand island dressing, some peppers and onions, and the bread was toasted with cheddar cheese crusted on the outside. Dear God, it was this close to being a full-on sexual experience. Afterward, we hung out in the sun room for a while. Very relaxing there. I read a book while Paige played on her DS. Half-finished puzzles were spread across some of the tables between the comfortable chairs.

The front of the hotel that faces the lake

Every time I've been here, there are always one or two bison hanging out around the back parking lot. 

The sun room with new furniture

"What'll it be then, eh?"

They pulled the plastic sheet off of this fireplace while we were there. Not sure if all the tile work on it is new, or it just had a cleaning.

There are affordable cabins which you can rent next to the hotel, and there's also the Lake Yellowstone Lodge just a hop, skip and a jump away, which also has cabins. Lake is a relaxing, beautiful spot to stay, and is also near the Bridge Bay Marina, where you can rent a boat or go on a scenicruise tour of the lake.

On to the next part of the tour - and thanks for stopping by!

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A Yellowstone Interlude - The Old Faithful Inn - 2014 Author Tour

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I've mentioned this before, but the Old Faithful Inn is one of my favorite places in the world. Sitting on the second or third floor mezzanine and watching the tourists go by, or reading a book, or writing, or having a drink...is nirvana to me. 

Whenever I stay here, I like to stay in the old part of the Inn (known as the old house). I don't mind that you have to go down the hall to use the bathroom and shower. Paige wasn't so thrilled about it, though. The newer sections have their own bathrooms, but they just don't feel so...filled with the spiritual residue of so much humanity.

(I know using the word 'residue' in conjunction with a hotel isn't always the best idea, but get your head out of the gutter...)

Looking up at the Inn's roof and widow's walk

The Inn. The big chimney on the left rises from the dining room.

The deck of the Inn. It's a nice place to hang out and watch Old Faithful go off.

The second night we were there, we sat and listened to this guy play the fiddle. I can't recall his name, but he was really good, and the music was a perfect part of the atmosphere. Listening to him in the ambiance of the Inn was pure bliss.

The dining room is nice to eat in, but it gets pricey at night. So we went for the breakfast buffet.

The Inn's dining room

Here's where I tried to artistically frame the big ol' clock with the mezzanine support beam thingies. A little blurry and didn't quite work out like I'd hoped. But there ya go.

Of all the red doors in the world, this is my favorite.

And last, but not least, the obligatory money shot

 You can see some more pictures I took (and better ones!) a few years back of the Inn here....and here....and here...and here.

Thanks for stopping by! Now on to the Lake Yellowstone Hotel.

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A Yellowstone Interlude - the Wildflowers - 2014 Author Tour

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Okay, so some of these pictures were also taken in Grand Tetons National Park, as well as in the Bighorn Mountains. Plus, I don't know my wildflowers very well, so I'm using a little color brochure I got to help identify them. Still, I'm probably way off, so if you know that I named something wrong, let me know in the comments, and I'll correct it.

One of the great things about this trip was the abundance of wildflowers. They were all over the place. Some places looked like Jackson Pollock filled his paint brush with the things and went to town. So much yellow and purple...it was beautiful.

In the Tetons. I'm gonna guess Showy Goldeneye.

At West Thumb geyser basin in Yellowstone. Don't know what the flowers are, but they were a carpet of yellow. 

In the Tetons again. I'm going with Silky Phacelia.

Tetons - same flowers as above.

Lupine, maybe?

In the Bighorns. Larkspur?

Also in the Bighorns. I have no idea what this is, so I'll just call it Pretty Flower.

Seriously, if you know what some of these actually are, let me know! Thanks for stopping by!

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A Yellowstone Interlude - The Animals - 2014 Author Tour

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When I spent five seasons working in Yellowstone, I saw maybe three or four bears over that whole period. I bring my daughter out there, and we spot three bears within the first half-hour of entering the park. The first bear was a bit far away, but the momma grizzly and her cub came along.

Bears!

Mama and cub

"That Goldilocks was sure tasty, Momma - can I have another one for dinner?"

 Paige took all of the animal photos on this page. She's a quick learner with the camera! These elk were also seen fairly early on in the park, not too long after we saw the bears.

Elk!

Elk

 Our third day in Yellowstone was spent at one of the cabins of the Lake Lodge. We saw this coyote, and at first thought it was a stray dog.

This coyote was hanging out near the Lake area ranger station

"I'm so gonna get you, mouse!"

Bison - you can't see all of them, but there were about 20 bison calves in this group! These were along the Madison River, about five miles or so before the Madison campground.

Bison calf

Bison calf nursing

A dear deer - near Lake

 We didn't see a lot of elk this time around - usually I've seen them all over the place. We also got a glimpse of a mountain goat early on, but we weren't fast enough to get a picture.

Thanks for stopping by! Now onto the wildflowers we saw.

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