Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927

Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927 Barnstorming Tour 423f32 a press photograph from the autumn the Bustin' Babes and Larrupin' Lou's tore across the country

touring cars winding the Paradise road past wildflower meadows and snowfields lingering into summer

sheep wagons rolling in from the Basque country

when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory

Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washington State Highway 7 arrives in roadside repose neon trimmed cabins flanking the mineral shimmer of Soap Lake, where folks once soaked in healing waters thick with froth and minerals along the desert highway's edge. A mid century waystation of clean linens and curative promise, cataloged in the linen era postcards of the open road age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard