Walt Disney cruising around the studio backlot on a miniature horse-drawn stagecoach.

The vehicle was part of the Disneyland Stage Lines which operated at Disneyland from 1955-1959. 

Original photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt - Burbank, California - December 1954.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1571352008325494&set=a.530718349055537

https://www.tumblr.com/walt-at-disneyland/173195747218/celebrating-today-walts-mother-flora-call

Anyone remember Playmobil, exceptionally nice kids toys, for ages 4-8 probably, and crazy expensive to collect a good amount of these. Here's two varieties of the stage coach

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=playmobil+western&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_sop=15&_pgn=12&rt=nc

Frederick Remington

 

I just learned that Van Gogh painted a stage coach

Closed shutters in the courtyard of the inn at Arles suggest it is siesta time, and short shadows indicate the early afternoon. 

Van Gogh wrote that the subject of this painting was suggested by Alphonse Daudet’s novel Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), in which an old stagecoach from Provence, now being used in the French colonies in North Africa, reminisces about its glory days on the Tarascon–Nîmes route. 

Dating from the artist’s period in Arles (1888–89), the painting expresses his nostalgia for the old ways of Provence that were quickly disappearing.

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/21359
https://www.pearlmancollection.org/artwork/tarascon-stage-coach/

I just looked through the book on the art of William Stout, and there's a lot to learn in there. He worked with the best and most famous people you've ever heard of, Henson, Spielberg, Lucas, Disney

the first merch that Lucas had made, was commissioning Stout to do the art for Burger King glasses! 

Lucas also commissioned Stout to do the poster work for the re-release of American Graffiti 

the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage. The stage operations, which began in 1858 between St. Louis and San Francisco, revolutionized mail and passenger service. Traveling 24 hours a day, the 2,800-mile trip took an unheard-of 25 days!

 https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25066

Airport Coach Service, Disneyland Hotel, circa 1960, Chrysler Saratoga

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/page1

I'll be danged, there WAS a better method for lifting horse wagons, chuck wagons, stage coaches, and conestogas than the ol' log and boulder method... a wagon jack. I've never seen or heard of one before now

https://www.finetoolj.com/auction/list-auctions?start=200

how Americans traveled the country 150 years ago

 

https://www.facebook.com/mecumgonefarmin/posts/pfbid0URcCwZJMwt99SNrtKdfC23kmffyPhFHsRx5enGJRJrcTC2fmHMLn6SvKKCrnEwPMl

vintage photos and postcards of Plainwell Michigan

Patterson, Glynn and Lyons had the Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids stagecoach line in the 1860s.

above, 1911.  Notice the horse cart on the far right, a woman is driving

 

compare above and below

I don't think these are the same photos, but they are very damn similar

from ebay sales

I just learned that there is a facebook page "You know you're from Plainwell if..." https://www.facebook.com/groups/Plainwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Historic_District

https://wkfr.com/5-things-everyone-knows-from-plainwell-michigan/

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74530

Plainwell is claimed to be the only island city in Michigan... well, except for Mackinac Island I suppose... maybe just the only one in the LP

The Kalamazoo River flows around it, and fyi, the July 25, 2010 Kalamazoo River Disaster caused by Enbridge Energy's broken pipeline is the biggest inland oil spill in U.S. history.

The earliest settlers were people who came to work and make their fortunes primarily from the area’s natural resources—towering virgin white pine trees for lumber and shingles, hemlock trees to use in tanning hides, and land speculation. During the 1830’s and 1840’s, a number of lumber mills were set up in the county, but they suffered from a lack of customers. However, with the mid-century growth of Chicago and Milwaukee, the influx of Civil War veterans in the late 1860’s, and especially the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the demand for Allegan County’s lumber exploded. Trees were cut literally round-the-clock at times, and lumber mills were operating full-blast to meet the demand.

A different kind of settler, however, came to the northwest corner of the county. There, Dutch immigrants, arriving in Holland, moved to the surrounding countryside as part of religious communities. In 1847, 70 immigrants from one town settled Graafschap. And in 1848, an entire religious community from another village settled the town of Overisel. These settlers, and many of those that followed, were conservative religious Separatists who were fleeing religious persecution, much like the Puritans.

The lumber boom, together with the construction of a plank road connecting Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo through the eastern part of Allegan County in 1854 and the arrival of several railroads around 1870, created a flurry of new settlements and population growth. The population grew from 5,125 in 1850 to just over 16,000 by 1860. It doubled again by 1870 and peaked at around 38,000 in 1880 where it remained till post WWII.

After the trees had all been clear-cut and the lumber boom ended, the land with good or passable soil was converted to farming. On the western side of the county, much of the land near Lake Michigan was converted to fruit orchards. Indeed, the peaches grown in the Saugatuck-Douglas area were famous in the markets of Chicago where they were called “Michigan Gold”.

While agriculture has remained important in most parts of the county, the eastern and western portions of Allegan County developed somewhat differently during the 20th century. From the 1870’s through the early 1900’s, numerous paper mills opened along the Kalamazoo River in Otsego (Site No.1) and Plainwell (Site No.28) and became an important part of the local economy for much of the 20th century. Today, all but two are closed, and both remain major employers in the area.

https://gis.allegancounty.org/portal_webadaptor/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=81e1d912b4c24b729a207dc9e8403ab9

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/search/catch_all_fields_mt%3A%28Plainwell%29%20OR%20catch_all_fields_et%3A%28Plainwell%29

the Far Side by Gary Larson was just wonderful in so many ways

https://www.facebook.com/groups/404501423591978/

GM electric bus, 1913. Odd that it seems to have hard rubber front tires and pneumatic rear tires.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-60#post-13152617

Seems like a mix of stage coach, station wagon, and bus

gotta love cool old Victoria era advertising

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!/page433

ever wonder what the hell album covers photos relevancy is to the group, or the album? I do. This was 1973, and a freeway and overpass were in the middle of construction.

Whats that got to do with "China Grove" or Long Train Runnin'?

Trivia: Jeff Baxter of Steely Dan played pedal steel guitar on the track. He would become an official Doobie Brother in 1974.

The artwork found on the front and back of the album features the band, including manager Bruce Cohn, dressed in 19th century western garments and riding a horse-drawn stagecoach beneath an unfinished modern freeway overpass.

 "All that stuff came from the Warner Bros. film studios lot," Tom Johnston said. "It must've been a lot of work for the guys who brought up the horse team and the carriage and the clothes. It was fun to do - they had coffins out there, all kinds of crazy stuff."

The photography was done by Michael and Jill Maggid.

The setting for the cover was located at the Newhall Pass interchange of the Interstate 5 and California State Route 14 freeways near Sylmar, California that collapsed during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake.

 This same section of freeway would collapse again during the 1994 Northridge earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captain_and_Me

Ludwig Hohlwein art... he had been an architect until he decided to do poster art instead

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2013/06/ludwig-hohlwein-part-5.html

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2013/06/ludwig-hohlwein-part-4.html

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2013/06/ludwig-hohlwein-part-3.html

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2013/06/ludwig-hohlwein-part-2.html

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2013/06/ludwig-hohlwein-part-1.html