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Category Archives: Vintage Image of the Week
NIGHT HAWKS TAVERN, Camdenton, Missouri
Real photo postcard, 1935-1945 Inscription on back reads – “We enjoyed a fine meal here today with Toots and Jack.” Toots and Jack Stotler operated this thriving business from 1933 until selling to Buford and Anna May Foster in 1945. … Continue reading
Junction of Sac and Osage rivers near Osceola
Real Photo postcard, circa 1920 People have been taking pictures from the overlook on Highway 82 above the junction of the Sac and Osage rivers for a long time. Though the scenery along the Osage was not celebrated in oil … Continue reading
OSAGE RIVER in Flood at the Town of Bagnell
8 x 10 press photo from Chicago. 4/21/41 The cutline reads: “BAGNELL, MO. – This bantam rooster, caught in the flood that has inundated several Ozark towns, found himself floating on a log down the Main Street of Bagnell, Mo., … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagnell, Bagnell Dam, Crystal Payton, Damming the Osage, flood, Lake of the Ozarks, Leland Payton, osage river
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KAYSINGER BLUFF, Warsaw, Missouri
Real photo postcard by McKinney A hundred years before the Army Corps of Engineers Visitor Center was built at the overlook, locals came to picnic and gawk. With a distant view of the Pomme de Terre entering the Osage, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Army Corps of Engineers, osage river, Osceola, pomme de terre, Truman Dam, Warsaw
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LOVERS LEAP, LAKE OF THE OZARKS
Real photo postcard, probably 1940s Lovers Leap was a cliff near Linn Creek, about which J. W. Vincent, editor of the local paper, penned a fanciful tale of a suicidal India maiden. Virtually every declivity more than 25 feet high … Continue reading
LAND OF THE OSAGE
Postcard, 1950s We couldn’t fit this one into the book, but it is definitely an unusual image. While Harry Truman was born in Lamar, not terribly far from the stronghold of the Osage Indians, we haven’t seen any association of … Continue reading
FAIRFIELD (MISSOURI) COVERED BRIDGE
Real photo postcard. Penciled on back: “Fairfield Mill in July 1910” There was a mill and a small manufacturing complex at the hamlet of Fairfield, Missouri on the Pomme de Terre River built, it is said, by Judge George Alexander. … Continue reading
FORT OSAGE MOVIE
Movie Lobby Card, 1952 Fort Osage, a 72 minute B movie from Monogram Studio,has Red Cameron guiding a wagon train through Indian Territory. The Osages are unhappy with the Anglo-Saxon immigrants because of the treating-violating proclivities of the white men. … Continue reading
BRIDGING THE OSAGE
Hand colored postcard, circa 1910 Marais des Cygnes, variously creatively spelled, is the principal extension of the Osage River. Through Kansas it’s a more bridge-able stream, and was crossed in many places by iron truss bridges beginning in the 1870s. … Continue reading
PADDLEFISH (SPOONBILLS) AT OSCEOLA
Trophy Paddlefish This looks to be taken below the Osceola Dam which was removed when Truman Dam and Reservoir was built. While the primary paddlefish spawning beds were over gravel bars between Osceola and Warsaw, paddlefish on spawning runs would … Continue reading