Showing posts with label Stanley Steamer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanley Steamer. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Walker Locombobile Up Pikes Peak


[Daily Journal (Telluride), August 13, 1901, p. 1.]

"Locomobile" was actually a brand-name for early autos, but in this case probably refers to a Stanley Steamer.

Walker and W. J. Bryan, 1897


[Aspen Daily Times, June 13, 1897, p. 1.]

Pardon while I skip way ahead for a while. Trying to sort out John Brisbane Walker, the summer White House, the incline railroad, the Stanley Steamers, the roads and railways, Cosmopolitan, Riverside Park, various "castles"...