Cook's Spanish Inn Seattle Tacoma Highway Washington vintage telephone every guy-line and ridgepole drawn

every guy-line and ridgepole drawn with the patience of a man who knew a tent had to weather a season of hunts and fishing trips

Castle Garden New York Showing Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty 1887 — the old immigrant depot at the Battery's tip framed against Bartholdi's copper colossus

and grand brick hotels rising from the streets of an inland empire built on silver

three decades before its rupture

Cook's Spanish Inn Seattle Tacoma Highway Washington vintage telephone every guy-line and ridgepole drawnCook's Spanish Inn Seattle Tacoma Highway Washington arrives in stucco arches and red tile roofs rising roadside between the two cities a motorist's oasis of mission style verandas, neon promise, and gravel courts where touring sedans idled in the evergreen dusk. A relic of the open road heyday, cataloged in linen postcards from the era when the highway itself was the destination. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great