By The Happy Trails mural on the side of Daylight Donuts near 10th and Washington in Great Bend. This was a Dave Lowenstein project, painted in 1999 with residents and high school students.
it’s a barn
Bucklin!
Back to Western Kansas. Let’s see.. where were we on the journey? We were up to Bucklin (pop. 734). Bucklin is in SE Ford County. This was a town that Pawnee Rock used to play in football and basketball. That would’ve been before 1972, when Pawnee Rock High School closed. Anyway, so Bucklin is a …
Mass. St.
Another doorway on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence. This door goes to an upstairs room. Or it did many years ago when it was Paul Gray’s Jazz Place. I had just turned 18 and my friends, Amy and Lori, and I drove up to Lawrence to spend the weekend with Amy’s sister who took us to …
The Love Garden
Lawrence has many interesting doorways. This is the doorway to Love Garden Sounds. I didn’t go up the Love Garden stairs on this trip, but I did last time I was in Lawrence and they have bunches and bunches of vinyl and CDs. It’s a great place. 936 1/2 Mass. St. 785-843-1551 A couple years …
South Park
South Park is an expansive green area on both sides of Mass. St. in Lawrence, immediately south of the courthouse and the downtown business district.
More from Meade
A corner sign for the Lakeway Bed and Breakfast. Meade (pop. 1,629) is the county seat of Meade County. The Lakeway Hotel. See the rainbow flag below the U.S. flag? A year ago, that rainbow caused a big old controversy in this small Western Kansas town of 1,600 people. Controversy. That’s what happens when you …
Rexall
Rexall Drug Store sign in Meade. I don’t know if the store was still in business or not. But that Rexall sign reminds me of my Uncle Don. He was a pharmacist and had a Rexall store in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. So many memories rush back when I see an old Rexall sign, orange and …
Meade County
What’s left of the old courthouse in Meade. And the new courthouse. Built in 1928.
Plains
You may think… seen one elevator, you’ve seen them all. Every one is a bit different somehow, each built to meet the needs of a particular farming community. This elevator complex was in Plains (Kansas, not Georgia), home of the widest Main Street in the U.S.A. Plains, pop. 1,163, is in Meade County. Near Plains, …
Satanta
After leaving Ulysses, we wandered down to Satanta on our way to meet US54. Satanta is hard to say, especially if you’re familiar with the music of Santana. That ‘t’ is in a different place. Satanta has about 1,180 people and is in Haskell County – still way out in Western Kansas. In a city …