The second kitchen display is 40 years after the previous one shown, and illustrates the widespread availability of gas and electricity in this era.
The description states:
1930 KITCHEN
The housewife of 1930 had things very “modern” when the stove burned a natural gas flame. The iron and toaster were now electric. The 12 gauge shotgun was now automatic and the icebox electric. The phonograph came in a cabinet and the radio brought entertainment. The Singer Sewing Machine had a drop head, the telephone was improved with batteries inside and the sink had hot and cold running water. Electricity had come to America’s kitchens.
–This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Month: May 2014
19th Century Kitchen, Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska
This shows the typical accommodations and features of a pioneer kitchen at the turn of the 20th Century. More urban or wealthy families would have more and greater numbers of appliances or devices, often including gas and electrical ones. This image includes the basic wood burning stove and cooker, which was almost always in the same room where the food was eaten.
The description states:
1890 KITCHEN
With a cook stove that has oven doors on each side, a single barrel 8 gauge shotgun, tin icebox with Lazy Susan shelves, portable organ, oak cradle, drop-leaf pad table. Kerosene lamp with chimney, a kerosene stove, dry sink with pail and dipper. All showing the continued progress of man from 1830.
–This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Pioneer Village Print Shop, Minden, Nebraska
This shows a few of the machines and devices for printing in a time before electricity or other power assistance. There is a hand press in the back, and what appears to be a rotary press in the left foreground. The shop sign shows three ‘printer’s devils’, the title of the printer’s apprentices in such businesses. Many famous American’s worked as printer’s devils, including Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain.
The description states:
PRINT SHOP
One of 14 Old Craft Shops Seen Here
20,000 items in 20 buildings on 2 city blocks, showing man’s progress over the past 120 years. 132 Miles West of Lincoln, Nebr, on U. S. 6.
–This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Pioneer Village Apothecary Shop, Minden, Nebraska
This image shows the enormous range and variety of medicine and nostrums that were available until the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1905. Many of these concoctions contained ingredients we now consider dangerous or deadly, such as mercury and opium.
The description states:
THE APOTHECARY SHOP
1850
This was the corner drugstore prior to 1900, but it didn’t boast ice cream sodas, cigarettes and cameras. Instead, the shelves were filled with patent medicines and the drawers had such items as sassafras, cinnamon sticks, rock candy and herbs from which medicines and pills were concocted.
–This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Pioneer Village Cobbler Shop, Minden, Nebraska
This is an interior of one of many craft and trade buildings on the site of Pioneer Village. What appear to be shoes hanging from the shelving are in fact shoe lasts, the wooden forms used to make a shoe of a particular style and size. There appear to be a few shoes on the shelves themselves, but all the hanging items are wooden lasts.
The description states:
COBBLER SHOP
One of 14 Old Craft Shops Seen Here
20,000 items in 20 buildings on 2 city blocks, showing man’s progress over the past 120 years. 132 Miles West of Lincoln, Nebr., on U. S. 6.
–This postcard likely dates from the 1960s.
Doctor’s Office, Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska
This image highlights the doctor’s office as it would have appeared around the turn of the century. The doctor’s working desk is to the right, and the small cabinet in the center of the picture is in fact the examining table. There are leaves on both ends of the table for allowing the patient to lay flat and have their head and legs supported.
The description states:
OFFICE OF THE PIONEER MINDEN DOCTOR
30,000 items in 22 buildings on 3 city blocks, showing man’s progress over the past 120 years. 132 Miles West of Lincoln, Nebr., on U. S. 6.
This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Toy Collection, Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska
After a break of several months, we return to the Pioneer Village first displayed here. This card shows a substantial number of the toys representing the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The description states:
TOYS OF GRANDMOTHER’S DAY
Here you see a portion of the Toy Shop in the Pioneer Village. There is a Teddy Bear with was named after Teddy Roosevelt upon his return from an African hunting trip. You can also see a portion of the circus. Not visible is a collection of antique mechanical toy banks, of which 200 different models were made between 1856 and 1910.
–This card and the others from this series date from the 1960s.
Citizens State Bank, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This card illustrates another domed building, this time built on the design of R. Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome. It was originally the headquarters for the Citizens State Bank when built. It is commonly referred to as the Gold Dome building.
The description states:
CITIZENS STATE BANK
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This beautiful, modernistic, geodesic dome bank building located at N. W. 23rd and Classen Blvd., was built at a cost in excess of one million dollars.
–Since its construction the building has passed through several hands, and was at risk of demolition until preservationists mobilized to keep the building intact. Most recently it has been empty, but there are plans for occupancy in 2014, pending extensive renovation.
The building was completed in the late 1950s, so this card likely dates from the 1960s.
Church of Tomorrrow, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This unusual structure is part of a larger complex of buildings, of which this is the main place of worship. The Church of Tomorrow is the home of the First Christian Church congregation. It, and the associated buildings, were constructed in the late 1950s.
The description states:
‘CHURCH OF TOMORROW’
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The First Christian Church, located at 3700 North Walker, known as the “Church of Tomorrow”, is one of the most beautiful and unusual sights in Oklahoma City.
This card likely dates from the 1960s.
Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Shown here at dusk, with the outside lights on, is the capitol building for the Oklahoma state government. In the foreground and far right background are oil derricks.
The description states:
Oklahoma State Capitol and oil derricks at night.
–The derrick is a tower that allows the drilling pipe to be positioned in a straight line as it enters the drill hole. This photo likely dates from the 1960s