These two evocative shots by Peter Stratmoen just popped up on the Cohort. Not exactly a typical assemblage of cars you’d expect to have found at the A&W back in the day, but they make an eclectic selection.
This is obviously some sort of tourist attraction. Does anyone know where it is?
I could see this as a reasonable grouping of cars in a small town in the late 50s midwest. My Grandma could have supplied the Kaiser up until about 1957 or 58. She would have kept it longer if she hadn’t gotten into an accident with it.
I have no idea where this is.
I thought they were paintings. Just gorgeous shots!
I was too young to pay attention, but I’d bet this eclectic an assemblage could often have been seen at drive-in facilities in or around Findlay, OH, in the 1960s.
The second picture at least is in the Little Log House Pioneer Village in Hastings, Minnesota, said to be a popular site for weddings.
I’ve never heard of the place, but that Milwaukee Road depot with its partially visible town sign (W****ER) got me Googling intensively. Turns out it’s a 1930s depot from Webster, Minnesota, which led me to the Village.
That is crazy! I thought the second picture looked familiar, and was going nuts trying to remember where I knew it from. I spent a sadly large amount of time yesterday trying to figure out where it was, thinking “I’ve seen this before…”. Yep, been there, for a best friend’s cousin’s wedding around 2005ish? The whole place is pre-war 1930’s style, and cute in that particular kitschy way. It may have changed since then, but at that time it was about the size of 2 city blocks, and it isn’t car centric. The reception was fun. I grew up in Cottage Grove, maybe 25 minutes away (this place is out in the country, yet CG is about the last stop before nothingness outside of Hastings proper). Sadly, the marriage maybe lasted 5 years, if that… Webster? My grandmother was born there. Talk about a small world sometimes.
On a different note, we had the Cottage View drive-in that was halfway between Hastings and Cottage Grove. Many memories… My mother even went into labor while we where here one night for the double feature! (My sister Nicky was the result. Love you sis!). As one of two remaining drive ins in the twin cities, sadly BS corporate smelled blood, and eventually caused it to fold in 2012. Now a Wal-Mart sits upon the land it once occupied (barf):