Americana

[Joe O'Hara]

I have what may be a broader definition of what is Americana, but I think this qualifies. There were more than 60 of these small ski hill operations in Idaho alone. This 1940s truck ran for more than 30 years running a tow rope, then broke down the week after I took the photo in 2007. The operator is also a hunting outfitter and had two young kids skiing on the slope.
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That's a wonderful photograph, Thad.

I am enjoying all of the work in this thread. Photography is so well suited to help us to remember these evanescent things.

[Thad Gerheim]

Thank-you Joe.
The nice thing is that after the truck broke down, someone donated a diesel motor to replace it and the ski hill lives on. It's $5.00 a day for an adult to ski there and $3.00 for children. The board and bat weathered warming hut/lodge at the bottom of the hill has a lot of character also.

[mfohl]

Don't know as this counts as Americana, but I couldn't find another place for it.



Near an apparently abandoned railroad bridge in Zanesville, Ohio. Linhof 4x5, 240 Tele Xenar lens, FP4, HC110 dil B. Negative scan: crop, contrast tweak, vignette.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Here is my initial contribution.

Abandoned gas station, I-10 in CA.

Tmax100, 75mm Nikkor f/4.5 at f/32, red 25A filter. Developed in Tmax develooper.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Abandoned church on Route 66, I-40 California. Amboy, CA. I may redo the shadows. Seems a bit too much Cyan/Blue in the shadows. Need to stare at something else for a while.

Abandoned Church on Route 66, I-40, in California. Portra160, 81B warming filter, 75mm Nikkor, f/4.5@f/32

[Thad Gerheim]

Old gas pumps that are still in use at the Diamond D ranch which sits inside the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.[ATTACH=CONFIG]192453
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[Steven Ruttenberg]

Cool gas pump.

[Thad Gerheim]

Thanks Steven,
The Diamond D bunkhouse kitchen where I spent two winters hanging close to the wood burning cook stove.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

That looks cold!

[Thad Gerheim]

In 2010 I volunteered to work for a month at a forest service ranger station located 25 miles inside the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Here's a photo of the kitchen in the old ranger's cabin where I stayed. It was a great set-up, gravity fed water was heated in the wood burning cook stove and it had enough pressure for the upstairs shower in a clawfoot tub. Two coleman lanterns were used for lighting and I used my 4x5 Toyo AX with a 90mm lens. Its looking like I could do a series on kitchens I've cooked in!