I am lost....

[cpaharley2008]

Can anyone tell me where I am at this rest stop off I80? It is a beautiful picture and I want to bookmark the area,,,,

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Can anyone tell me where I am at this rest stop off I80? It is a beautiful picture and I want to bookmark the area,,,,

Too bad you didn’t get that road sign in the picture. On my phone there’s a location for each photo in the albums. I have an I phone and Verizon service.
Iowa Dave

[Vermilye]

Depending on what you used to take the photo, there may be GPS coordinates buried in the original image. Check with a viewer such as ImageExifViewer...

[Crazypill]

Originally Posted by Vermilye

Depending on what you used to take the photo, there may be GPS coordinates buried in the original image. Check with a viewer such as ImageExifViewer...

+1 for exif metadata

[cpaharley2008]

Went back to original picture and did more investigating, like suggested. I was in Brooklyn, Iowa on my return trip from Chilliwack/Osoyoos last month. Thanks everyone for the help.....
On edit, I would like to stay, I have nothing but fond memories of Iowa, both from my college days there and trips too/from the west with my Escapes/. Iowa Dave, you have a beautiful state there.....

[MyronL]

Re: Lost....Well, it ain't Laramie.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Went back to original picture and did more investigating, like suggested. I was in Brooklyn, Iowa on my return trip from Chilliwack/Osoyoos last month. Thanks everyone for the help.....
On edit, I would like to stay, I have nothing but fond memories of Iowa, both from my college days there and trips too/from the west with my Escapes/. Iowa Dave, you have a beautiful state there.....

When I was young I worked in a standard oil station with my dad. It was built in the 30a I believe and it was a “cookie cutter” Standard station of the day. The previous design was more heavily of the “Art Deco” design. One of those stations still exists in Brooklyn which is about 40 miles from where we live now and only a few miles from where my dad grew up on the family farm. It’s right in the center of town.

I don’t get down there as often as I used to. One of the promotions at Brooklyn is the “city of flags” display they have there. School district consolidations in Iowa over the past 50 years have made a huge change in the vitality and viability of small towns in our state. The towns which ended up with a regional high school, the county courthouse and a tractor dealership or grain elevator on a rail line have persevered, Others, once vibrant and nearly self sufficient, have faded and have been relegated to remembering past glories.
Brooklyn is doing ok. Lots of folks there work at Kinzie Manufacturing and some drive to the Amanas to work at the refrigerator manufacturing facility. The westward migration and ability to homestead in the 1860s and later brought many people to Iowa from the east and immigrants from Europe. A number of Belgian families in the area of Brooklyn still play Rolle Bolle. If your town has a lighted Rolle Bolle court and a tavern with an annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry, you’re probably doing ok. Why aren’t there more Boche Ball, Rolle Bolle, Horse Shoe and croquet players in the campgrounds or at Rallies? We need a revival of outdoor games in our country.
Iowa Dave

[MyronL]

Best Iowa memory...2010.

[HarleyD]

Originally Posted by MyronL

Re: Lost....Well, it ain't Laramie.

Stayed at that Wal*mart while fleeing the Mullen Fire they had near Albany 2 years ago.
Nearly a dozen 18 wheelers and about 15 - 20 RV's. They evacuated the area where we had been staying the next morning, in the Keystone area.

[cpaharley2008]

Originally Posted by MyronL

Best Iowa memory...2010.

Gotcha beat, we were partying in the cornfields in 1967.....

[peter]

We were haying in the hay fields of southern Montana around Absarokee in 1962

[GeorgeB]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Gotcha beat, we were partying in the cornfields in 1967.....

Gotcha beat, We were partying in cornfields 80 to 86. Ahhh the nights under the stars. Glad there wasn't cell phones or phones with cameras. ;-)

[Craiger]

My great grandparents are buried in Brooklyn Iowa. That's where my grandmother was born. The wife and I were in Iowa visiting her hometown and we drove out to Brooklyn to look for my grandparents burial site. I was told it's real close to a big tree there are about eight big trees at the graveyard. 25 minutes later and the rain we found the grave site.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by Craiger

My great grandparents are buried in Brooklyn Iowa. That's where my grandmother was born. The wife and I were in Iowa visiting her hometown and we drove out to Brooklyn to look for my grandparents burial site. I was told it's real close to a big tree there are about eight big trees at the graveyard. 25 minutes later and the rain we found the grave site.

My brother who lives in Colorado is a very avid genealogist. He was in town a few years ago doing some research and I offered to take him to the cemetery at Guernsey, Iowa, not far from Brooklyn. My paternal grandmother is buried there along with many other relatives who homesteader in that area. They came from Guernsey county Ohio. He took about 60 photos of the memorials there and learned a lot that day.

My dad went to high school in Victor. I am lucky to have two brothers with widely varying interests and educations. My contribution always seems to revolve around the fact that I’ve covered a lot of ground d over the years and can remember where I’ve been and why I was there. I have managed centuries in several cities. It’s a grounds maintenance challenge as well as a complicated job to work with family at times. Grief makes things hard.
Iowa Dave

[John in Santa Cruz]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

Too bad you didn’t get that road sign in the picture. On my phone there’s a location for each photo in the albums. I have an I phone and Verizon service.
Iowa Dave

it just says I80 east-> west <- ... least I think its I80

[Iowa Dave]

And that does cover some country.

I mentioned finding a location on a phone picture to
my son yesterday when he stopped by . He rattled off a couple different programs and said they work well to locate photos. I told him it wasn’t for me. On the meanwhile I think Jim figured it out.

When the railroads came through Iowa they named a lot of towns that sprung up along the route for either railroad executives or in our area, foreign counties or cities.
Just in our area we have Mount Vernon, Lisbon, Norway, Luzurne, Brooklyn, Chelsea and on and on.

Trees were a much appreciated landmark and feature of the transitioning tall grass to short grass prairie biomes and thus about 25 towns in Iowa have tree related names including. Salix Iowa. Named in Latin for the genus of the willows that grew along a nearby waterway. Native Americans chewed the bark and cambium layers of willows to cure headaches. Later we made aspirin for that malady. Aspirin, of course, contains salicylic acid. The same as the willow bark.
Iowa Dave

[John in Santa Cruz]

if you use an android cell phone camera, and google photos to store your pics, the album owner can click the (I) icon (info) on any picture in the album and get a map of where it was taken, UNLESS you disabled photo locations.

example, from last night, when my brother was sitting in on guitar with Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s at a yacht club...

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz

it just says I80 east-> west <- ... least I think its I80

Hi: John in Santa Cruz... Travelling at the speed of sound I'm surprised the pic is even in focus!!! Alf
escape artist N.S, of Lake Erie

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

And that does cover some country.

I mentioned finding a location on a phone picture to
my son yesterday when he stopped by . He rattled off a couple different programs and said they work well to locate photos. I told him it wasn’t for me. On the meanwhile I think Jim figured it out.

When the railroads came through Iowa they named a lot of towns that sprung up along the route for either railroad executives or in our area, foreign counties or cities.
Just in our area we have Mount Vernon, Lisbon, Norway, Luzurne, Brooklyn, Chelsea and on and on.

Trees were a much appreciated landmark and feature of the transitioning tall grass to short grass prairie biomes and thus about 25 towns in Iowa have tree related names including. Salix Iowa. Named in Latin for the genus of the willows that grew along a nearby waterway. Native Americans chewed the bark and cambium layers of willows to cure headaches. Later we made aspirin for that malady. Aspirin, of course, contains salicylic acid. The same as the willow bark.
Iowa Dave

Hi: Iowa Dave... Chew 2 pieces of willow bark... and call me in the morning!!! Has a nice ring to it. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie