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Posts by Randel Metz

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks are washed out in flooded Fountain Creek near Mineral Palace Park in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows tracks submerged in the creek bed and an eroded railroad grade.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Flood of Biblical Proportions

A man falls into a round Browder safety net at a fire department demonstration in Denver, Colorado. Men and Boy Scouts look on.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Free Fall

Full-length studio portrait of Jobyna Howland, stage and screen actress and comedienne; born in Indianapolis, educated in Denver; daughter of Joby A. Howland, minstrel man; made New York stage debut in 1899; original "Gibson Girl" (posed for artist Charles Dana Gibson). She wears a flowered hat and holds a flower.  The backdrop has an ornate window.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ The Original "Gibson Girl"

View of a pay telephone. The phone has a slot to deposit nickles, dimes, and quarters, a dial, and coin return.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Station to Station

An African American man rides an Indian Motorcycle with a Winter-Weiss Company platform sidecar in front of the Macon Pure Milk Company in Macon, Georgia. He wears a cap, vest, gaiters add boots. An advertising model of an oversized milk bottle is on the sidecar's platform. Lettering on the bottle reads: "Macon Pure Milk Co." Two men in suits and hats look on.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Milk Bottle Motorcycle

View of the petrified wood building in Lamar, Colorado in Prowers County.  Facade of the building has textured, jagged wood.  Sign: "Ripley's Believe It Or Not Petrified Wood Building. Built of Wood Turned to Stone.  150,000,000 years old."

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Believe It Or Not

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