Found this gas station in Truckee CA
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RivennHewn
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I've been there!
Love that little town.
Lot's of good food to eat:thumb:
The pic in my avatar was taken right there on the Truckee River.
Love that little town.
Lot's of good food to eat:thumb:
The pic in my avatar was taken right there on the Truckee River.
ishiboo
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Second that Truckee is a neat town! And what a cool building, I love it when people put those to re-use and they did an awesome job on it. The Truckee Hotel is also pretty neat.
raddksn
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Cool naa that's badass! thanks for sharing!!
Sunset_Z28
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Sweet looking place.
It's a nice little downtown here but parking is a PIA. Ray-CA did you make it down the street to Bar of America of over to Jax Truckee Diner? Which was built from an old diner RR car. It was good weekend to get up in the mountains out of the 105+degree weather in the valley.
4 Ever-Fish N
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I went to Truckee a few times back in the 70's when I was stationed near Sacramento. The scenery is just awesome all around the Tahoe and surrounding area. A small place named Kyburz (sp) is where we'd turn off to go fishing in the mountains. Great memories. Thanks for sharing the pics.
Ditch
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I know the town well.
ddawg16
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****....I've been in that area and never saw that town.
Cool picks Ray...thanks for sharing
Cool picks Ray...thanks for sharing
Jinks
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I want one of those gas pumps!
driftpin
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Watch out what you order on the menu, especially if you order the "Donner Burger!" Just remember the '70's rock song, "Timothy" for a clue...
Been there in the winter for skiing/hiking, v. pretty area any time of year. The Cal-Neva Lodge by there has a connection to a certain 1950's/'60's blonde bombshell.
Been there in the winter for skiing/hiking, v. pretty area any time of year. The Cal-Neva Lodge by there has a connection to a certain 1950's/'60's blonde bombshell.
When I first came here to Ohio 10 years ago (wife is from here), people said "you're from California; you've never seen snow!" I replied "I'm from Northern California; I've been in 20 foot snow drifts."
Yeah Truckee's a neat little town. Did you head over to Lake Tahoe/Reno?
Yeah Truckee's a neat little town. Did you head over to Lake Tahoe/Reno?
Cool gas station. I wonder how many people pull in there to "get gas" ?
Falcon67
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THis is way high buck, youppie land eatery now but I'd still like to go sometime since it's my old home town. Old converted station
http://winslowswinecafe.com/
There are some being saved. There's a couple in Fort Worth that are kinda "frozen in time", redone by someone.
One here in Albany, see a couple in some small towns around west Texas. Better hunting where there's no money to tear things down.
http://winslowswinecafe.com/
There are some being saved. There's a couple in Fort Worth that are kinda "frozen in time", redone by someone.
One here in Albany, see a couple in some small towns around west Texas. Better hunting where there's no money to tear things down.
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ptgarcia
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This one was finished not long ago near where I live:
Looked like this (colorized post card) in the '30s:
Looked like this (colorized post card) in the '30s:
Schurkey
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I knew a couple of families in Truckee, but one family retired and moved, (Kosak) and the other I've lost touch with so long ago that they wouldn't even remember me (Hall).
I've driven past there dozens of times, Dear Old Dad lived on the Other Side of the Mountain. The last time I was IN Truckee, I had been pulled-over by the stupidest, most-kickback-taking a-hole roadway "worker" (CAL DOT, I think) on Earth. I was forced to buy tire chains before they'd let me drive down a WET interstate highway. The guy bangs his portable "STOP" sign on the road in front of me and yells "YOU SHALL NOT PASS (without tire chains installed!) There was no snow on the road. There was no ice on the road. The pavement was WET from the melting snow on the side of the road. It was so warm, there was a small river of water at the edge of the pavement.
I got out of my car, showed the highway worker that all four of my tires were US Federal DOT "Mud and Snow (M+S) rated. I showed him my license plate from the Seasonally Frozen Wastelands--the town I lived in, and where I came from the day before had more snow than the streets of Truckee did, although the streets of Truckee actually HAD snow, which I-80 did not.
NOPE. Gotta buy and install chains before I can go down the hill. Amazingly enough, the store had rows and rows of thousands of tire chain sets. What a coincidence. Didn't want to carry-over the merchandise past spring and into summer, I guess. Bribe the DOT to harass motorists appeared to be the scam.
I bounced down the mountain at 25 mph, screwing-up the brand-new tire chains on WET pavement. All because some doofus with a hand-held stop sign decided to exert some authority on a traveler.
I don't have a lot of love for Truckee.
I've driven past there dozens of times, Dear Old Dad lived on the Other Side of the Mountain. The last time I was IN Truckee, I had been pulled-over by the stupidest, most-kickback-taking a-hole roadway "worker" (CAL DOT, I think) on Earth. I was forced to buy tire chains before they'd let me drive down a WET interstate highway. The guy bangs his portable "STOP" sign on the road in front of me and yells "YOU SHALL NOT PASS (without tire chains installed!) There was no snow on the road. There was no ice on the road. The pavement was WET from the melting snow on the side of the road. It was so warm, there was a small river of water at the edge of the pavement.
I got out of my car, showed the highway worker that all four of my tires were US Federal DOT "Mud and Snow (M+S) rated. I showed him my license plate from the Seasonally Frozen Wastelands--the town I lived in, and where I came from the day before had more snow than the streets of Truckee did, although the streets of Truckee actually HAD snow, which I-80 did not.
NOPE. Gotta buy and install chains before I can go down the hill. Amazingly enough, the store had rows and rows of thousands of tire chain sets. What a coincidence. Didn't want to carry-over the merchandise past spring and into summer, I guess. Bribe the DOT to harass motorists appeared to be the scam.
I bounced down the mountain at 25 mph, screwing-up the brand-new tire chains on WET pavement. All because some doofus with a hand-held stop sign decided to exert some authority on a traveler.
I don't have a lot of love for Truckee.
When I went to pick up the grinder I bought, there was a early snow storm that had dusted everything w/ a light snow, so went to Les Schwab tire where they refund your money for unused tire chains, the CHP and/or Caltrans did not have chain requirements & my trusty Dodge diesel 2WD made it with ease, since did not use them, got to return the chains.