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Dick's Artifacts
Photos 1
(Man-made Objects; page 1 of
5)
Gas
& Steam Engine Museum, Other Stuff |
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photos added here November 18, 2025
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in red) |
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Artifacts
2:
Barns,
Windmills and Water Tanks,
Corrals, Fences & the Like
Artifacts
3: Bridges,
Railroad,
Vehicles
Artifacts
4: Bodie,
Mariposa,
Mendocino
Artifacts
5: Clovis,
Sacramento,
St.
Louis, Artwork
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Captions that are links take you to a
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| The
Antique Gas & Steam Museum, Vista CA |
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| Entry
way sign |
Equipment
at the Antique Gas & Steam Museum, Vista CA |
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| More of the
same |
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| More
museum displays |
A
really primitive item |
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| Other Stuff |
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Stained glass window,
Peanuts Museum,
Santa Rosa CA |
Mission Inn, San Bernardino |
Mission Inn, decorated for Christmas |
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Friant Dam, San Joaquin River,
Fresno/Madera Counties |
Indian village and valley oak,
Indian
Grinding Rock State Park |
Basket on
display at Yosemite Museum, made by Lucy Telles, of the
Yosemite-Mono Lake Piutes |
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Fake Pine Tree/Cell Phone
Tower,
by Highway 41 in Madera County |
Double decker |
The Inn,
Parkfield CA |
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| The Parkfield
Cafe |
Parkfield Engine |
Sand Hog at
Amador County Fairgrounds |
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Ahwahnee Round House (from
Sierra Telephone Co directory) |
Amador City, CA |
Binghamton NY |
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| Peggy
Sue's Diner, at Yermo, off I-15 near Barstow |
Round bales |
Power
pole |
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| Power
pole, Cunningham Road, Merced County CA |
Close-up |
Metal
rings let hikers get through Banshee Canyon at Mojave National
Preserve in the Mojave Desert
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| The
old homestead is long gone; new development surrounds this old
fireplace |
Site of Pine
Logging Company Mill near Dinkey Creek |
The office (Pine
Logging Co Site) |
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| Dick relaxes outside an
old cabin (J. Neely photo) |
Restored cabins
at logging camp |
The old store |
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| Inside the store |
Ice cream, anyone? |
Store counter |
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| Fish Company
Restaurant, Baton Rouge |
Bale Grist Mill,
Napa Valley
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Water turning the wheel at
the mill |
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| Gears inside the mill |
Exterior
of mill building |
This
was the original hotel in Parkfield CA; it burned down in 2011 |
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| Florence Lake
dam, San Joaquin River, Sierra National Forest |
Another
view of the dam |
The
dam under construction, probably mid 1920s
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| Point Cabrillo
Light Station |
Close up view of light |
Cape Mendocino Lighthouse
(at current location in Shelter Cover) |
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| Another
view of the lighthouse |
Umpqua
Lighthouse, Oregon |
Target,
Arizona desert |
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| Can
you identify this one? |
Fire
ring with hearth, made from exfoliated granite slabs |
A
very fine fire ring |
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| Hearst Castle |
The main house at
Hearst Castle |
Patio
and gardens |
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at Hearst Castle
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Abandoned
stamp mill, Mariposa County (photo by Susan Crandall)
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Mountain
dulcimers, hand-made by Andy Crandall (photo by Crandall)
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| No
one's home (photo by Crandall) |
A
place where someone leaned three sticks together |
Toothpick holder owned
by Emily Bell Mason (1858 - 1921) |
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| Pitcher
owned by Hazel Mason Estel (1917 - 2007) |
Cup
owned by Pauline Mayer Estel (1855 - 1940) |
Bowl
owned by Aletha Gashe Clifton (1875 - 1959) |
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| Seed
store, Delta Ohio |
Hay
drying at Cal State University, Fresno |
Carved
stump in California Meadow, Sierra National Forest |
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Oil
wells near Long Beach, 1937 (Mabel Estel photo) |
Burning
the rotting pallets |
Tree house on huge
section of cottonwood
trunk, Parkfield CA |
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| One of two fountains in
Parkfield |
Fountain
near the restaurant |
Lanterns
at San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad Museum (Shaver Crossing) near
Big Creek CA
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| Saw
blades at the museum |
Penstocks carry
water from Huntington Lake to the Big Creek power house |
Big Creek Power
House #1 |
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| Western
town replica, off Highway 41 in Madera County CA |
Inside
the Mercantile Store |
Jackhammer
marks where rock was drilled for dynamite during road construction
near Mono Hot Springs |
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| Pioneer
cabin, moved from another location to Nelder Grove in 1980-81 |
License
plates from Ashton collection |
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| More Ashton
plates |
Interpretive
sign in Nelder Grove, Sierra National Forest |
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| Section
of tramway used for logging in Nelder Grove |
Nature
made it a tree; man made it a stump
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Rock
Wall near lodge in Sequoia National Park |
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| Downtown
Bakersfield (date unknown) |
Infrastructure |
More
infrastructure |
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| Out
with the old red pipe... |
...and
in with the new green |
Rusted
old kettle near Hensley Lake, Madera County CA |
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Bag
I made using an Indian-style weaving technique |
Opposite
side of bag |
Grandma's
pump |
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| Table
Mountain Rancheria Tribal Center above Lake Millerton |
Like a
mine shaft, but it's not, and no one knows what it is - at San
Joaquin Gorge |
Yokuts
Indian shelter at San Joaquin Gorge Management Area |
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| This
strange device, called a "wildlife guzzler," captures and stores rainwater for
animals at the San Joaquin River Gorge |
Steps on the San
Joaquin Gorge nature trail |
New
steps being installed on the Pa'San Ridge Trail |
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This
sign at the San Joaquin Gorge Recreation Area means "Place of
Blue Oaks" |
A unique trail entrance
at San Joaquin Gorge Nature Trail |
Typical
sign along the Nature Trail, including the Yokuts Indian name |
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| Goalie sculpture outside the World Arena
in Colorado Springs |
Zamboni
at the World Arena |
Tower for
electrical transmission line in Merced River canyon |
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| Power
line up the slope of Kennedy Table, San Joaquin Gorge area |
Cedar
bark shelters at the gorge |
Store
in Bootjack, Mariposa County
(by Bonnie Portnoy) |
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| The historic Venetian Hotel
in Capitola |
Room
door at the Venetian |
Rugged but practical lawn
furniture for sale in Parkfield CA |
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| Big
spool back of the cafe in Parkfield |
This
mill in Parkfield is pulled through the log instead of the usual
method where the log moves into the saw |
These
quail keep watch on a ranch fence near Parkfield |
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| Mail
boxes in Parkfield |
Mr.
Spurlock's Perpetual Motion Machine (no, it didn't actually work) |
One of
many old log structures around Baker, NV |
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| Replica
of Osceola
Ditch (flume), Great
Basin National Park |
Downtown
Baker NV |
Abandoned
cabin on US 191 in Utah |
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| Close-up
of construction |
This
wall of Indian grinding stones is part of a motel in Mesa AZ |
Indiana
farm house |
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| Nobody
home - abandoned ranch house in Colorado |
Another
abandoned homestead |
Geographic center of US
marker in Kansas |
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"Modest"
cottage by Wampler's Lake in Michigan
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Abandoned
farm buildings in Fulton County, Ohio
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A bit
of whimsy along the road into Great Basin National Park |
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| Beaded
glove in museum at Vernal, UT |
A nice
display of projectile points in the museum
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Homesteader's
cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park
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| Oil
pump in Rangely, CO |
The
long gone rancher worked hard designing his mail box |
Part
of an old dude ranch in what is now Rocky Mountain National Park |
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Along
what used to be Route 66 in Arizona |
Another
man and nature collaboration |
Stairway
up the Mark
Twain stump |
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Fence
to protect the giant Bull Buck sequoia in Nelder Grove (Wes Thiessen
photo) |
Marker
on the old road to Yosemite |
Fireplace
at Bissett Station site |
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Concrete and stone work at the
"waterworks" near the Big Creek Road near Pine Flat Lake
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This rusted valve has long been
inoperable
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Power pole near Secata Ridge
above Pine Flat Lake
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| Old
cabin at Goofy Smith Flat on Mill Flat Creek, Fresno County |
Covered bridge plaque
at Felton
in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
The bridge, over 120 years old |
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| Standpipe
in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains |
A
collection of electrical insulators |
Bench
on the Shaw'-Shuck Trail at Hensley Lake |
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Wire-bound wood pipe used under the streets
of Virginia City NV
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Ajax 50 gallon chemical
fire extinguisher at museum in Virginia CIty
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Cornish pump, used to extract water
from Virginia City mine shafts
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| A
long-abandoned homestead in Mariposa County |
Bicycle
planter |
Dust
pattern on my Honda |
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| Electrical
tower near Pine Flat Lake |
Base
of the tower |
Looking
up through the tower |
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| Overpass
in Canada to provide a natural crossing for wildlife |
Each
key on this typewriter has upper and lower case, and a number or
symbol |
Note
the unusual double shift key |
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| Highway
99 freeway construction in Bakersfield in the 1960's |
Bakersfield
Civic Auditorium |
Old
cabin in Nichols Meadow on California Creek |
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Beside
a trail in Yosemite. No one knows why |
Kid
pools next to a dry flood basin in Clovis provide a ramp for some
creature |
A
unique and charming house in Old Town Clovis |
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| Crane
in Clovis construction yard |
And
another one |
Mouse
Rock |
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| School
desk from late 1800s |
17th
Century school desk |
Found
discarded on a canal bank in 2015 in a pile of papers from same time
period
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| Native
American ruins at Valhalla Overlook, Grand Canyon North Rim |
Fire
ring construction hasn't changed in 1,500 years |
On
the remote eastern side of California |
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| Power
pole/cell tower combination |
Petroglyphs
at Atlotl Rock in Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park |
Water
inlet, Dry Creek Canal in Clovis |
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| Trail
marker in Arches National Park |
Man-made
mini-arch in the park |
People
have built a dozen mini-arches in this spot in Arches National Park
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Gas
station at Grant Grove in the winter of 1973
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Pipes
and valves in Clovis |
Electrical
tower and line at San Joaquin River Gorge Recreation Area |
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| Turbine
arriving at PG&E power plant at San Joaquin River Gorge |
This bench at Hensley Lake is almost
hidden in the tall spring grass |
Nature
made the rocks, but Mr. W arranged them like this |
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| Farm
house from about 1890; at the Center for San Joaquin River Studies |
Rock
piles built by people insufficiently challenged by the hike at
Edison Point by Pine Flat Lake |
Cellar
door in downtown Philadelphia |
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| Independence
Hall, Philadelphia |
Lifts at an
equipment rental yard |
Pioneer
cabin at Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park |
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| Hay bailing machine near Parkfield CA |
Newly
baled hay near Parkfield |
Round
bales make an appearance for the first time at Parkfield |
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| Power
pole with lots of insulators |
Wood
pile at Stargazer Rock camp |
New
vista point on Highway168 |
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| Courtright
Dam, built in the 1950s |
Another view of the dam |
Lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Walnut Creek |
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| This log across
a trail comes with
instructions on how to get past it |
Hume Lake Dam, in the
Giant Sequoia National Monument |
Boats for rent at
Hume Lake |
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| Logs killed by
drought and beetles; equipment used to process them |
Construction
by the Dry Creek Trail in Clovis CA |
Gilroy
Museum, in the former Dale Carnegie Library |
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| Telephone
switchboard in Gilroy Museum |
Baby
scale in the museum |
This former
ranger station by the Kings River is now a rental cabin |
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| Parked
at a motel along the Old Town Trail in Clovis in March 2017 |
The
first gas I bought came from a pump like this |
A
couple of rare antiques |
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| Richfield,
ancestor of ARCO |
Water
tanker at Parkfield rodeo grounds |
Parkfield's big wheel |
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| Log chipping
operation in Oakhurst |
Log deck |
Where
some of the logs came from |
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| During
peak runoff, Black Rock Dam forms this delightful man-made waterfall |
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| This
steep metal stairway leads down toward the dam |
Eby stamp mill at
Belden Rest Stop on State Highway 70 |
Fly wheel and shafts
of the heavy stamps, used for crushing gold ore |
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| Power
transmission poles near the Feather River |
Penstock above
Caribou Road near Feather River |
Teri
Liddle spotted these relics of the past in the mountains of Fresno
County |
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| Guest
House Museum in Fort Bragg CA |
Old
time street clock in Fort Bragg |
"Donkey
engine," used to haul logs out of the forest |
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| An
unexpected sight - dozens of rock artifacts next to the Kings Canyon
Overlook on the Generals Highway |
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| A
closer look at one section |
Clovis
had tiny houses before they were a thing |
Highway
180 near Kings River, en route to Cedar Grove (built by convict
labor) |
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| Cupola
from old Fresno
County Courthouse |
Shelter
near Chilkoot Creek, Sierra National Forest |
Geology
Exhibit Hut at Glacier Point, constructed in 1924 |
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Horse
sculpture at Dry Creek Trailhead in Clovis CA |
Close-up
of clock mechanism |
Informational plaque |
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An old washing machines tub has
become a target near the Upper Kings River |
Branding irons
hanging from ceiling of the Parkfield cafe |
Power
transmission line from the Helms Creek Pumped Storage Project at
Courtright Lake |
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Culvert
under Big Creek Road north of Pine Flat Lake |
One
of at least six concrete and stone water control facilities along
Big Creek |
Mission
Santa Barbara |
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Fess Parker Doubletree Inn at
Santa Barbara |
Cabin
near Burney Falls, built by Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 |
Boots
awaiting a group of teens going on an Outward
Bound backpack trip |
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I like to think this rock pile
near Courtright is a monument to a departed marmot |
Greeters
at the Black Bear Diner in San Rafael |
Wood
walkway for service access to power line across the San Pablo Bay
salt marsh |
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| Device to count bikers and hikers
on the Old Town Trail in Clovis,CA |
Fresno
County's famous "lighthouse" on Auberry Road east of
Clovis |
48-star
flag |
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| Teri's
gingerbread house 2018 |
Mikie's
gingerbread house 2018 |
Bedrock
mortars by the Bear Wallow Trail above the Kings River |
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| Vintage
farm equipment along Auberry Road in Fresno County |
Circa
1920s power house at the San Joaquin Gorge Recreation Area |
Visibility
marker balls where the
power line crosses Pine Flat Lake |
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Sawdust
burner and conveyer
platform at Pine Logging Camp |
Miwok
roundhouse at Indian
Grinding Rock State Park |
Whimsical
oil pump near Coalinga |
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| The zebra oil pump |
A closer look |
"The Chief" wears
a jaunty feather |
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| Rod's
firewood sculpture |
Action
will get you up |
Rock
work along the Lost Lake Trail |
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Native
cedar bark shelters
at the San Joaquin Gorge |
Building
at Westfall Ranger Station,
damaged by windstorm January 2021 |
The multi-purpose steam-operated
Dolbeer
donkey engine
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| What
to do with your old chain saw |
Sawdust
burner at Pine Logging Mill Site |
Close
up, looking up |
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| Inside the Wells Fargo office in
Columbia |
Power transmission
poles receding
into the distance at Tesoro
Viejo Trail |
Indian
grinding holes on the Tesoro
Viejo Trail above the San Joaquin River |
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Desert
View Watchtower, Grand Canyon
(Upshaw photo) |
A
closer view |
Bedrock
mortars by the San
Joaquin River
(Thiessen photo) |
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| Pine
Flat Dam 2024 (by Dave Smith) |
Who
knows the purpose of this building in Lost Lake Park in Fresno
County? |
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