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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Retail Graveyard: 1939
June 1939. "Abandoned stores in ghost mining town. Pony, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Kneedler's Groceries / Isdell Mercantile
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What 15 little piggies can tell you
If you want it to last, build it in brick: the centermost building here liveth still. (The nearest building seemed to be onto the concept, but faux brick sheetmetal didn't cut it.)
Honestly, though, Pony seems to be suffering such an interest overload I almost feel guilty ghost(town) writing more ... contributing to the delinquency of a miner, perhaps?
Survivor
One of the buildings survived and is a going concern!
Agate grocer's missing 'E' turns up in Pony
Or at least the grocers in Pony knew how to spell.
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