Scanned another roll’s worth of previously-unseen negatives today, still at January 1974. Here are some more from eastern Iowa. Bleak City. (Btw, I couldn’t figure out why repeated cleanings of the negatives didn’t clear up the apparent dust spots. Then I realized that light snow was falling in some images.)
Sioux Falls SD to Des Moines IA
Arising early, we break camp just outside of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For breakfast, we visit Falls Park in mid-city Sioux Falls, a wonderful small city. Then we drive on into Iowa to Sioux City for lunch, then south along extreme western Iowa to Onawa and beyond.
Via Onawa (birthplace; population 2700), Turin (junior high), and Castana (elementary and freshman high). We meet Paul Benjamin, Onawa street person; Brett Spaulding, Onawa tractor-truck-car dealer and Internet entrepreneur; and a boomer biker couple from Omaha returning from their Sturgis SD (site of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally every August) test run with a new bike. Visits to the site of the grand-paternal farm in Turin which was acquired by the State as a wildlife and habitat preserve and Loess Hill geologic site. We check out the Onawa Public Library, Lawrence’s favorite haunt as a child on Saturday shopping days to read material not available at home.
Finally, Nik drives us into Des Moines.
Photos are available but captions and narrative will have to wait; too much to do, too little time. Will probably transfer all to Flikr or Picasa, as it is getting out of control with 1,047 photos so far.
