Flinstone’s Bedrock City
Custer, South Dakota
Fred Flinstone standing beside his new Rockmobile Special. Don’t miss your ride in Fred’s car!
(The facility opened in 1966 and closed in 2015)
Flinstone’s Bedrock City
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
September 1911
National Music Museum
Tenor viola by Andrea Guarmeri, Cremona, 1664. One of only three early Cremonese instruments known to have survived in unaltered condition.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
South Dakota
May 2006
Hi Noah,
We enjoyed this museum greatly. It was full of musical instruments of all types and ages. It is getting hot here. We all miss you.
Love, Virginia
America’s Shrine to Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. One of the features of the Graese Gallery is the exhibit of instruments used during the American Civil War. Including No. 2866 snare drum by Eli Brown, No. 2814 snare drum by H.R. Eisenbrandt; No. 2882 Over the shoulder cornet in B-flat by Klemm & Brothers, No. 2258 Cornet in E-flat by John f. Stratton.
Vermillion, South Dakota
July 2007
Can you find a “C” on this piano? (figure it out)
Hope you are keeping busy. We miss having you here. I’m eating the waffles!
Love, Virginia
America’s Shrine to Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion. No. 3449. Miniature spinet harpsichord by Francesco Panini Bologna, Italy, 1672. Cypress, finely-pierced rose. One of the smallest full-working miniature harpsichords known. Witten-Rawlins Collection 1984. Rests on a fortepiano (No. 2906) by Davison & Redpath, London 1789. Board of Trustees, 1982.
Rapid City, South Dakota
August, 1985
Dear Grandma and Grandpa
We are staying in a cabin. It is very small. I think it is the best place in the whole wide world. All of us are well and Astra. We saw Mt Rushmore. It was pretty big.
Love, Allie
This year has seen a return to the extensive use of geometric designs as well as pictorial panels. A new marquee and the extensive addition of new paneling have provided surfaces for more grain decoration than any time in the past fifty years.
Chamberlain, South Dakota
August, 1985
Here we are in the middle of South Dakota at Al’s Oasis Inn watching a Dracula movie on Saturday night – Allie and Val are screaming but it is really a comedy! So far we have seen the Corn Palace and lots of farmland. Astra is traveling well as usual. Tomorrow we will go on to the Badlands for a night and then to the Back Hills. Allie and Val have been saving their allowances and have been to two gift shops already, while Astra and I wait elsewhere. We had a good time at Valleyfair, the amusement park, with Tom and Jenny on Thursday before we left – spent 10 hrs there!
Hope all is well in Europe.
Love, Tim
Custer, South Dakota
March, 1909
May go through your town today or Saturday on my way home, come down to the train if you can.
Love
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
September, 1911
Dear Daughter
Don’t count too much on my coming to corn produce as I am very busy canning peaches and must to make Poor pickles and meat relish and get my dress made and get shoes and gloves and we are going to Edith’s Sat. and home. I’ll let you know. Later.
Mother
Custer, South Dakota
March 4, 1909 — Mitchell, SD
Rec’d your card last night sorry I had planned on going home, but haven’t been home for so long the folks are awfully anxious to see me.
Love
Postcard published by the Omaha News Company. Made in Germany.
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