July 16, 2019
A new gizmo planted at Simpson and 7th. It only has enough room for numbers with two digits.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Your Speed
July 16, 2019
A new gizmo planted at Simpson and 7th. It only has enough room for numbers with two digits.
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Here Comes the Space Age
July 14, 2019
1959 Cadillac at the Bear Fest car show. The car and the Bear Fest were created in the same year.
Dick Balch
July 14, 2019
This Corvette is beautiful but what really caught my eye was the Dick Balch license plate border. Balch was famous in the region nearly a half century ago for slamming his autos with a sledge hammer followed by a high-pitched silly laugh as part of a TV advertising gimmick.
Ley Lines?
July 13, 2019
Has some pseudoscience mower has been cutting strange paths in the fields next to the VFW Hall and Rainbow Park with a purpose in mind?
Now Here's Something You Don't See Every Day
July 13, 2019
Dr. Health E. Hound in front of the clinic.
Bear Stew on the Float
July 13, 2019
When it comes down to it, McCleary is really a weird town without knowing how incredibly weird it really is. This lack of self-awareness about their own weirdness is what makes McCleary genuinely weird rather than the pretentious self-conscious or rehearsed weird of other places. The day we see coffee cups or shirts proclaiming "Keep McCleary Weird" will be the day McCleary has become gentrified and no longer weird. And I am afraid that day will come sooner than we think.
Bear Festival Float Preparation
July 13, 2019
The parade floats for McCleary and Shelton prepare for the Bear Festival shindig in the shadow of the Simpson door plant.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Kucinich
Rep. Dennis Kucinich ran for US President in 2004 and 2008. Never say die. I have come to regard this bumper sticker as one of the icons of the town. I mean, we're the place where a huge photo of Gov. Rosellini hung in City Hall for three decades after he left office.
Tree Gallery
July 2, 2019
A charming lineup of trees on canvas drawn by children adorn the locomotive display at the park.
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