Day-36 Wichita * Air Museum * Old Cowtown Museum
Brrrr .. it's getting ready to SNOOOOW!! I'm going back to Captiva! Bev left for school at oh dark thirty and I got to sleep in a bit. Finished laundry and headed over to the Kansas Air Museum.
and from the front :
This used to serve as the Wichita Municipal Airport from 1935 to 1951. Shortly afterwards it became part of McConnell Air Force Base. Here's some interesting info. :
This blue and yellow plane is a Watkins Skylark SL, # NC102V, operated out of Wichita in 1930.
cost: $900, 103mph max, gross wt: 1350 lbs, 20-gal. fuel tank, got 20-miles/gallon
This is what's on the ceilings of this three story building. It's an aviation AND an Indian design. The gentleman who's lovingly touched-up the ceilings for the last 10-years saw me staring and taking pictures. There went my next 40-minutes. What an airplane buff. He's been all over the country touring air museums, including Boeing's Museum of Flight in Seattle, The Spruce Goose in McMinnville, and the blimp hangars in Tillamook.
The outside of the building has wrought iron steel work in a art deco design. See the planes?
Several planes outside :
On to ... 1870's Cowtown. This 'museum' has moved 54 entire buildings from SW Kansas to this site.
All of the interiors have been restored with original artifacts and furnishings.
There's the .. jail, music store, hardware store, meat market, livery stable, hotel, saloon, drug store, dentist and doctor's offices, land office, print shop, mortuary, carpenter shop, .. here's the general store:
Here's the railroad depot :
Here's the sign outside the drugstore :
and, a one room school house :
All-in-all a relaxing and fun museum day. Ready to start driving West tomorrow. On to Fort Larned!
Adriene (Bev's daughter) and her son London joined us for dinner and fellowship. Adriene helped Bev with an old cheese slicer as they sliced up 168 pieces of mild cheddar for another culinary lab.
today's museum mileage : 42
accumulated trip mileage : 6503
and from the front :
This used to serve as the Wichita Municipal Airport from 1935 to 1951. Shortly afterwards it became part of McConnell Air Force Base. Here's some interesting info. :
This blue and yellow plane is a Watkins Skylark SL, # NC102V, operated out of Wichita in 1930.
cost: $900, 103mph max, gross wt: 1350 lbs, 20-gal. fuel tank, got 20-miles/gallon
This is what's on the ceilings of this three story building. It's an aviation AND an Indian design. The gentleman who's lovingly touched-up the ceilings for the last 10-years saw me staring and taking pictures. There went my next 40-minutes. What an airplane buff. He's been all over the country touring air museums, including Boeing's Museum of Flight in Seattle, The Spruce Goose in McMinnville, and the blimp hangars in Tillamook.
The outside of the building has wrought iron steel work in a art deco design. See the planes?
On to ... 1870's Cowtown. This 'museum' has moved 54 entire buildings from SW Kansas to this site.
All of the interiors have been restored with original artifacts and furnishings.
There's the .. jail, music store, hardware store, meat market, livery stable, hotel, saloon, drug store, dentist and doctor's offices, land office, print shop, mortuary, carpenter shop, .. here's the general store:
Here's the railroad depot :
Here's the sign outside the drugstore :
and, a one room school house :
All-in-all a relaxing and fun museum day. Ready to start driving West tomorrow. On to Fort Larned!
Adriene (Bev's daughter) and her son London joined us for dinner and fellowship. Adriene helped Bev with an old cheese slicer as they sliced up 168 pieces of mild cheddar for another culinary lab.
today's museum mileage : 42
accumulated trip mileage : 6503
Glad you had a relaxing museum day! Be safe on the road tomorrow as you head west - watch for snow!
ReplyDeleteSnow! Be careful. Last night 39 degrees. Bet it us a lot colder where you are. Great Air museum!
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