From our trip to the Safari Club International show in Reno, Nevada in January, 2013. Bill and I got one day off to explore, so we visited Carson City and Virginia City (south of Reno) and some of the country side just north of Reno. This is St. Mary's in the Mountains church in Virginia City. Originally built in 1868, burned in 1875 and then rebuilt in 1876. Vignette added.
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
Virginia City, Nevada - Molinelli's Hotel over the Silver Queen Saloon. Taken in January, 2013
