Some of the buildings are new, some are old. They each have (or had) unique uses, but all of them have character.
![March 16, 2013
OK, for those of you that don't remember, or didn't guess the names of the characters from the 1960's hit TV show called "Bonanza" that I posted yesterday, see below.
If it weren't for the modern cars and the telephone wires, this shot could have been taken "in the day" and in the era where Bonanza could have taken place. Converted to BW with Nik Effects Pro, Sepia tone added & vignette added.
For Smugger's that may not recall the TV series "Bonanza" here's snipits of what Wikipedia tells us:
The show Bonanza chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe" (Michael Landon). Via exposition (Bonanza, "Rose For Lotta", premiere September 12, 1959) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English (Bonanza, "Elizabeth My Love"; episode #65) Swedish (Bonanza, "Inger My Love", episode #95) and French Creole (Bonanza, "Marie My Love", episode #120) respectively. The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung).
The family lived on a 600,000+ acre (937.5 square-mile) ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada.[4] The vast size of the Cartwrights' land was quietly revised to "half a million acres" on Lorne Greene's 1964 song, "Saga of the Ponderosa." The ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee (played by veteran actor Ray Teal), or his deputy Clem Foster (Bing Russell).
Bonanza was considered an atypical western for its time, as the core of the storylines dealt less about the range but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes. "You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family and the troubles it went through. Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television. Most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didn't like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters", explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine (Paulette Cohn, "Bonanza: TV Trailblazer", American Profile Magazine, p. 12, June 5, 2009).
Hope you enjoy reminising about the iconic show called Bonanza.
I hope you have a Bonanza of a day my friends!!
Linda](http://lgood.smugmug.com/Other/Daily-Photos/i-Gnm8SZK/0/Ti/DSC_7361_1-Ti.jpg "March 16, 2013
OK, for those of you that don't remember, or didn't guess the names of the characters from the 1960's hit TV show called \"Bonanza\" that I posted yesterday, see below.
If it weren't for the modern cars and the telephone wires, this shot could have been taken \"in the day\" and in the era where Bonanza could have taken place. Converted to BW with Nik Effects Pro, Sepia tone added & vignette added.
For Smugger's that may not recall the TV series \"Bonanza\" here's snipits of what Wikipedia tells us:
The show Bonanza chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric \"Hoss\" (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or \"Little Joe\" (Michael Landon). Via exposition (Bonanza, \"Rose For Lotta\", premiere September 12, 1959) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English (Bonanza, \"Elizabeth My Love\"; episode #65) Swedish (Bonanza, \"Inger My Love\", episode #95) and French Creole (Bonanza, \"Marie My Love\", episode #120) respectively. The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung).
The family lived on a 600,000+ acre (937.5 square-mile) ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada.[4] The vast size of the Cartwrights' land was quietly revised to \"half a million acres\" on Lorne Greene's 1964 song, \"Saga of the Ponderosa.\" The ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee (played by veteran actor Ray Teal), or his deputy Clem Foster (Bing Russell).
Bonanza was considered an atypical western for its time, as the core of the storylines dealt less about the range but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes. \"You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family and the troubles it went through. Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television. Most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didn't like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters\", explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine (Paulette Cohn, \"Bonanza: TV Trailblazer\", American Profile Magazine, p. 12, June 5, 2009).
Hope you enjoy reminising about the iconic show called Bonanza.
I hope you have a Bonanza of a day my friends!!
Linda")
![February 28, 2013
Here's another unexpected find on our drive from Carson City to Virginia City, Nevada in the hills just south of Virginia City – the Gold Hill Hotel.
According to www.guardianlv.com :
"[The hotel is] nestled in the hills a mile south of historic Virginia City, Nevada, in the Comstock Lode mining community I found an unexpected golden nugget, the Gold Hill Hotel. Known as Nevada’s oldest operating hotel, the Gold Hill hotel was established in 1861; first known as the Riesen House.
Although the hotel has been through several proprietors over its 151 year lifespan, the current owners may be the most surprising.
Comstock Mining, Inc. purchased the property when the latest owners, Carol and Bill Fain, were ready to retire. After two years of being on the market, it became apparent the combination hotel, restaurant, and bar might have closed down if it were not for the interest of the mining company and their future vision for the revitalization of the Comstock Lode community."
We didn't stop as we wanted to get to Virginia City, so this shot is "again" taken from the car as we drove past. Hopefully some day we'll have time to go back and explore tomorrow.
Have a "golden" kind of day today my friends.
Linda](http://lgood.smugmug.com/Other/Daily-Photos/i-Xrs7RpC/0/Ti/DSC_7295-Ti.jpg "February 28, 2013
Here's another unexpected find on our drive from Carson City to Virginia City, Nevada in the hills just south of Virginia City – the Gold Hill Hotel.
According to www.guardianlv.com :
\"[The hotel is] nestled in the hills a mile south of historic Virginia City, Nevada, in the Comstock Lode mining community I found an unexpected golden nugget, the Gold Hill Hotel. Known as Nevada’s oldest operating hotel, the Gold Hill hotel was established in 1861; first known as the Riesen House.
Although the hotel has been through several proprietors over its 151 year lifespan, the current owners may be the most surprising.
Comstock Mining, Inc. purchased the property when the latest owners, Carol and Bill Fain, were ready to retire. After two years of being on the market, it became apparent the combination hotel, restaurant, and bar might have closed down if it were not for the interest of the mining company and their future vision for the revitalization of the Comstock Lode community.\"
We didn't stop as we wanted to get to Virginia City, so this shot is \"again\" taken from the car as we drove past. Hopefully some day we'll have time to go back and explore tomorrow.
Have a \"golden\" kind of day today my friends.
Linda")
March 28, 2013
Our friend DreamCatcherPhotography recently posted a beautiful photo of the Ellis County Texas court house, located in Waxahachie, TX which is my home town. I've been mining some of my older photos that I hadn't posted before in the Daily Community (because I haven't been out to photograph anything new lately) and ran across this shot of the old courthouse. So I thought you might enjoy seeing the whole building.
Have good day my friends!
Thank you for your comments on the Grand twins shot yesterday
Linda
Our friend DreamCatcherPhotography recently posted a beautiful photo of the Ellis County Texas court house, located in Waxahachie, TX which is my home town. I've been mining some of my older photos that I hadn't posted before in the Daily Community (because I haven't been out to photograph anything new lately) and ran across this shot of the old courthouse. So I thought you might enjoy seeing the whole building.
Have good day my friends!
Thank you for your comments on the Grand twins shot yesterday
Linda
March 28, 2013
Our friend DreamCatcherPhotography recently posted a beautiful photo of the Ellis County Texas court house, located in Waxahachie, TX which is my home town. I've been mining some of my older photos that I hadn't posted before in the Daily Community (because I haven't been out to photograph anything new lately) and ran across this shot of the old courthouse. So I thought you might enjoy seeing the whole building.
Have good day my friends!
Thank you for your comments on the Grand twins shot yesterday
Linda
Our friend DreamCatcherPhotography recently posted a beautiful photo of the Ellis County Texas court house, located in Waxahachie, TX which is my home town. I've been mining some of my older photos that I hadn't posted before in the Daily Community (because I haven't been out to photograph anything new lately) and ran across this shot of the old courthouse. So I thought you might enjoy seeing the whole building.
Have good day my friends!
Thank you for your comments on the Grand twins shot yesterday
Linda
See photo in original gallery.