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Roadside Convenience

Post by Rich Bingham » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:15 am

About halfway up the spiral highway from Lewiston, Idaho to the Palouse Prairie was a spring where a traveler could get a drink, and cool down a steaming Model T in need of water.
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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Steve Jelf » Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:47 am

I remember when it was safe to drink from mountain springs and streams. At least, we thought it was. :)
The inevitable often happens.
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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Rich Eagle » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:18 pm

That highway sounds like a great place to drive an old car.
These guys still do it:
https://lmtribune.com/northwest/spiral- ... 5736b.html
I think the Green Cadillac is Dennis Hood's
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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by RajoRacer » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:49 pm

Yes, that's Dennis and # 2 is Ken Findley form B.C.

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Mark Gregush » Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:36 pm

That is not what I would think of being a Roadside Convenience. That would be something that most Service Stations had for those long trips and some of those were not so nice! :lol:
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Burger in Spokane » Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:40 pm

The spring is still there and accessible to those who pay attention.
More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by frontyboy » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:03 pm

A few years back a friend purchased a original unrestored 1914 Winton 7 passenger touring from a collector in Lewiston. We drove it from Lewiston to Spokane up the switch back grade at 5 pm in the summer heat. Once we got to Spokane we headed west and drove the Winton to Bellingham Washington. It did not miss a beat no flat tires no overheating, a great experience fun and interesting. That road is much better than your photo, but its still steep and switch backs for I'm guessing from memory 10 miles up.

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Burger in Spokane » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:03 am

The Winton went to Bellingham ? That car has a helluva neat history
here in Spokane. The carriage house it hid in all those years is breathtaking !
More people are doing it today than ever before !

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by John Warren » Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:41 am

We all drank out of the springs when we were kids. Dad seemed to know where some of the best were. One had a pipe sticking out of a mountain with a tin cup to drink out of. The best tasting water I have ever tasted. Good stories, thanks.
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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Rich Eagle » Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:58 am

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by ModelTWoods » Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:15 pm

Mark Gregush wrote:
Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:36 pm
That is not what I would think of being a Roadside Convenience. That would be something that most Service Stations had for those long trips and some of those were not so nice! :lol:
That's the first thought that I had. Prior to my teenage years, my Mom and Dad took my sister and I on my long vacations by car traveling all over the U.S. and Canada, most trips lasting as much as three weeks. Those were the days before Interstate highways, and sometimes "rest stops" were few and far between, My Mom and Dad always took a metal porcelain coated pot or urinal along, in case an emergency arose and Dad had to stop so someone had to find a big tree or bush.

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Mark Gregush » Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:25 pm

Between Portland and Seaside there is a pipe sticking out the side of the hill fed by a natural spring. People have made trips just to fill their carboys there. Don't recall ever stopping or being a cup, but it is right at the road side.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Burger in Spokane » Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:57 am

This stretch of road is what the song Hotrod Lincoln was written about. It
was later changed around to reflect an area more familiar to many, but this
is the original.
More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Loftfield » Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:51 am

In earlier days of motoring when "roadside convenience" meant the nearest tree or shrub (for women), the oft used euphemism for making such a stop was "picking flowers". So delicate, so discreet, so innocent, so refreshing a term compared to the modern, liberated, vocabulary with which we are daily bombarded today.


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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by frontyboy » Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:06 pm

Burger,

WE drove from Lewiston to Spokane for the night. The reason was we had an appointment with the current owners of the home where the Winton had resided since new. They wanted photos of the car both in and out of the carriage house which still stands.

Once done we drove from Spokane to Coulee City for the evening. Then up early and headed west again thru Leavenworth and up the Stevens Pass Hiway. We took turns driving and riding up and over the hump. This magnificent automobile nary missed a beat and we average 45 MPH. This is a powerful 60 hp 7 passenger very large car that really did not mind going up and over the pass some 4500 feet. We did not add oil or water just gasoline.

There were 4 of us 3 died in the wool brass car owners and one neophyte. The weather was perfect and very enjoyable. An opportunity for brass car owners that was not to be missed.

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Re: Roadside Convenience

Post by Burger in Spokane » Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:00 am

Sounds like you got all up to speed on the backstory then. Wish I had seen it before it was
pulled from the carriage house. Those would be awesome photos !
More people are doing it today than ever before !

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