Hershey
A detour through Hershey, PA to inspect the Hershey's chocolate factory.
Massive factory.
The entrance to the gift shop and tours.
Chocolates galore.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
New York
Niagara Falls
Like the Grand Canyon, you have to see it to comprehend its enormity.
A view across to the Canadian side.
Niagara Falls - The movie.
The viewing area on the Canadian side.
Steps down to the bottom.
Permanent rainbow.
The Falls on a really cold day.
I followed the Niagara River up to Lake Ontario. The fall colours were beautiful.
It was coming up to Halloween and there were roadside pumpkin sellers everywhere.
George Eastman was the founder of Kodak.
His house in Rochester, NY has been converted into a museum and an educational institution.
George Eastman was born in 1854.
The entrance to his mansion.
The gardens are beautiful.
The entrance.
In the centre of the house the day room was cleverly created during the building of an extension.
The Catskill Mountains
I decided to travel to the Catskill Mountains to see the fall colours in New York (state).
Interesting and typical American barns.
This was in the RV park I stayed at.
The RV parks were nearly empty as the winter was approaching.
Fall colour along the road.
The tourist train at Phoenicia, NY.
Catskills Railroad
The lake at Brook-n-Wood RV Park where I stayed.
A nearby creek.
Halloween display along the road.
Rochester
Eastman MuseumGeorge Eastman was the founder of Kodak.
His house in Rochester, NY has been converted into a museum and an educational institution.
Eastman formed the Eastman Dry Plate Company & reincorporated it as The Eastman Kodak Company in 1892.
During his life George Eastman donated more than $100
million to educational and arts institutions, hospitals and charitable organisations around
the world.
In the late 1920s, Eastman was diagnosed with a progressive
and irreversible spinal disease, and in March 1932, he ended his own life.
In a note to friends, he wrote, “My work is done. Why wait?”
In a note to friends, he wrote, “My work is done. Why wait?”
The entrance to his mansion.
The gardens are beautiful.
The entrance.
In the centre of the house the day room was cleverly created during the building of an extension.
The Catskills
The Catskill Mountains
I decided to travel to the Catskill Mountains to see the fall colours in New York (state).
Interesting and typical American barns.
This was in the RV park I stayed at.
The RV parks were nearly empty as the winter was approaching.
Fall colour along the road.
The tourist train at Phoenicia, NY.
Catskills Railroad
The lake at Brook-n-Wood RV Park where I stayed.
A nearby creek.
Halloween display along the road.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Michigan
Detroit
I stayed at this picturesque RV park near Novi.
A morning view from my RV.
The RV park is huge and built around 4 lakes.
These cute guys were constantly entertaining me running around gathering nuts.
RV Show in Detroit
There was a RV show on in Detroit so I decided to attend.
In the show they had an exhibition of J.F. Kennedy memorabilia and included the presidential limousine.
The original is in the Henry Ford Museum below.
1961 Lincoln Continental
Dearborn Ford Factory
The Entrance.
A view from the upper level across the massive Ford plant, Dearborn.
There is a walkway which overlooks the assembly line.
We were in the Ford F150 model assembly plant.
We were told not to take photographs.
This was a bit of a joke as I downloaded all of these from the internet.
The larger components have their own little assembly lines.
The line is multi dimensional.
Nearly finished.
On the way to final inspection.
Final inspection.
The foyer has a few classics on display.
This fascinating exhibition is a deconstructed Model T Ford.
Circa 1923
The opposite side shows the timber framework.
Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
22 feet long.
Circa 1952
Bugatti Type 31 Royal Convertible
One of only 6 built.
Circa 1931
Edsel Citation Hardtop
Circa 1958
Goldenrod
Held the land speed record for more than 25 years.
In 1965 it broke the record at Utah's Bonneville salt flats doing over 409 mph, 658 kph, driven by 4 Chrysler engines.
Ford Mark 1
Two times 24 hour Le Mans winner.
Circa 1968
There were many other displays including homewares, farm machinery, aviation, railways, and many more.
The Presidential vehicles.
Teddy Roosevelt's Brougham
Used by Theodore Roosevelt, William H Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding & Calvin Coolidge. Mainly used for household duties.
Brougham
Circa 1902
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Sunshine Special
The first expressly designed and built Presidential car..
Used by Franklin D Roosevelt & Harry S Truman.
Lincoln
Circa 1939
Dwight Eisenhower's Bubbletop
Used by: Harry S Truman, Dwight D Eisenhower, John F Kennedy & Lynden B Johnson.
Lincoln
Circa 1950
The Kennedy Car
Used by John F Kennedy until he was assassinated in 1963.
The vehicle was rebuilt to provide better security then later used by Lynden B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Lincoln Continental
Circa 1961
The rear bumper and grab handles for the FBI Security to stand on the rear of the vehicle
Reagan Car.
First used by President Nixon then by Reagan after his attempted assassination.
Also used by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter & George W Bush.
Lincoln Continental
Circa 1972
Chariot made by William Ross
Circa 1800
Next to the Henry Ford Museum is
This is an entire township
built on 80 acres with roads and infrastructure, skirted by a 19th century
steam driven train.
There are 83 authentic
historic structures, from Noah Webster’s home, where he wrote the first
American Webster's Dictionary, to Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory to the courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law.
Most of these buildings were purchased from their original sites over America, Canada and England and relocated to Greenfield Village.
Most of these buildings were purchased from their original sites over America, Canada and England and relocated to Greenfield Village.
Town centre.
Sir John Bennet's watch and jewellery store Circa 1931.
Herschel-Spillman 1913 Carousel on the right.
Mechanical figures chime every 15 minutes.
The building has the restored exterior decorative elements from the original London store.
The only traffic on the streets are T Model Fords, old buses and horse drawn carts.
I was lucky to strike a beautiful spring day and the walk around the village was serene.
Martha-May Chapel in the Garden of Leavened Heart.
The steam loco on the 3 mile track skirting the village.
Cotswold Cottage
Exported from Chedworth, England
Circa Early 1600's
Circa 1931
Noah Webster Home
Circa 1823
Giddings Family Home
Circa 1750
Cotswold Forge
Blacksmiths forge
Built Worcestershire, England
Circa 1600's
Ladies cleaning up after lunch at Daggett Farmhouse.
Daggett Farmhouse
Built in Connecticut
Circa 1754
Sarah Jordan Boarding House.
Serviced the workers at Edison's Menlo Park.
Built in New Jersey
Circa 1870
Boarding room.
Recreation room.
Edison Homestead
Built in Ontario, Canada
Circa 1815
Menlo Park, New Jersey replica Laboratory.
Built 1929 in Greenfield Village.
One of the laboratories.
This guy was giving a demonstration of how an Edison Phonograph cylindrical record was made.
He would talk into the speaker and it etched the sound on to a cylinder.
It recorded the sound and then was played back to us.
One of the machine shops.
Edison Illuminating Company Station A
A scaled down reproduction of a electric power station designed around 1880 to power cities.
Circa 1944
Horse drawn omnibus.
Railroad Depot.
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