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Roadside Convenience

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:15 am
by Rich Bingham
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:47 am
by Steve Jelf
I remember when it was safe to drink from mountain springs and streams. At least, we thought it was. :)

Re: Roadside Convenience

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

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:49 pm
by RajoRacer
Yes, that's Dennis and # 2 is Ken Findley form B.C.

Re: Roadside Convenience

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

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:40 pm
by Burger in Spokane
The spring is still there and accessible to those who pay attention.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:03 pm
by frontyboy
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.

frontyboy

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:03 am
by Burger in Spokane
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 !

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:41 am
by John Warren
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:58 am
by Rich Eagle
SiralHwy.jpg

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:15 pm
by ModelTWoods
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:25 pm
by Mark Gregush
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:57 am
by Burger in Spokane
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:51 am
by Loftfield
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.

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:06 pm
by frontyboy
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.

frontyboy

Re: Roadside Convenience

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:00 am
by Burger in Spokane
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 !