Friday, June 21, 2013

Antique Power Show in Wallsburg and Bridal Veil Falls

We've never been to Wallsburg. It's near Deer Creek Reservoir and Heber. It's a beautiful farming town. Grandma Rainey and Ross directed us to Richard Erickson's Antique Power Show this weekend and it was fantastic. It only happens once a year, so set your alarm clocks for the first weekend of summer and don't miss it next year.
A tractor towing a "people mover" will take you from the parking lot in a hay field to the pioneer village.
There are cool old and weird things in every building. There was a carbon fiber fishing pole that had been hit by lightning and a potato picker belt (looks lethal), old stop lights and toys, corsets and washing machines.
Ikey tap dances in most photos now.

These old cabins were moved from Salt Lake City and house collections of printing presses, shoe shop, an old soda shop.
 
 
 
The ice cream was made with a "Poppin' Johnny" John Deere engine
  churning the freezers.
I can't even guess how many tractors were at the museum. A million maybe.


Ikey climbed around on the caboose and the kids tried a merry-go-round for the first time. Ikey didn't like it. Jovie wanted to go faster.


Some of these motorcycles were as early as 1907. Steve McQueen's personal HD was in the collection.
We ate a picnic lunch in the hay field and the tractor driver came over to show us pictures of his own restored vehicles and to share some carrot sticks.
Ikey insisted on a hike, so we walked on a path from the Bridal Veil Falls viewpoint down to the park. I carried Jovie on my shoulders because her socks were stuck through with cheatgrass from our bushwacking to check out a sheepherder's wagon.

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