This will be an easy entry. You’ve seen historical museums of Western towns. I continue to enjoy them. Here just a few oddities I have not seen before, or that elicited caustic remarks in my mind. Nothing caustic about the two hosts, though. They were lovely and helpful.

There Was Always Time For Some Fun

On the upper right overview photo board below you see the title: There Was Always Time for Some Fun. I studied these photos, and selected one to show at the bottom below.

… and I wonder whether the guy got both women pregnant and will have to marry one of them? None of these people look as if fun was foremost in their minds.

Trans in the 19th C.?

Take a look at the (happy?) bride, and the person on the spring board.

Would they identify as Trans today, and likely led a not so happy life at the time?

Speaking of happiness: Below the inside of a settler’s home. Overview on the left; detail in the middle…

Yes, the mannequin in the cabin looks happy enough, lipstick and all. But the woman who was actually living in the cabin, without contraceptives, did she want to be there? What’s her story? Bottom: of course, Supercuts of the time. What’s not to like in his situation?

Inventions

I didn’t even recognize some of these machines, particularly the one marked Edison.

Visual Texture and 19th C. Logo Design

I took the photo on the left just for the texture of the object composition. Never mind the details. The others are branding signs of surrounding farms. You have to stay minimalist to be effective, just with a logo today, like the Amazon arrow:

Don’t we all wear that arrow brand on our butts today?

Saving the Jewels

Some you you might not know why modern bicycle seats have ‘man ditches’ cut into them. As bicycle seat designs have grown increasingly narrow and hard, men began to notice numbness in their genitals, because nerves running in the perineum were being squeezed. The phenomenon led to a reduction in cyclist offspring due to ED. Particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, where wealthy tech entrepreneurs insisted on the fastest bicycle seats atop their carbon fiber frames. After years of a declining cyclist gene pool, conservationists stepped in. The groove, or pressure relief channel, as the professional term goes, was invented in the nick of time, and has led to a slow recovery of tall, tendon-only males in the area.

A novel invention, that groove? Think again!

Okanogan: More Modern than Many

The men’s room in ‘The Club’ restaurant downtown. Progressive, in an area that is described as ‘leaning conservative.’ Seen such a vending machine in your local restaurants lately? In Germany they are wide spread:

Super ironically, literally as I am typing this, the couple on the floor above me are working away. It’s been several minutes now. I feel bad for the guy. I always complained that the procedure is basically a Yoga plank exercise with dynamics added for additional abdominal work. Tough on the core.

There is an occasional lull upstairs as he catches his breath. But he is determined.

I had to cut off the recording to save disk space. I sure hope the partner appreciated this effort.

Anyway, where was I?