Old Barns with Advertising and Covered Bridges...memory lane

If you enjoy remember seeing Old Barns and reading the advertising on them and Covered Bridges, you will enjoy going down this memory lane. Perhaps you will discover one near you. Enjoy!
Gary/Louisville


http://www.ohiobarns.com/

I remember all the Rock City barns. I have an aunt and uncle in Chattanooga Tennesee. On the trip down their, my one sister and I would look for these signs and barns as a way to amuse ourselves on that 12 hour trip. I have even been there a few times.

LimeyLisa Kay

Check out the covered bridges. Then go to Ky and Fleming Co. Those are all near me.

I remember advertising barns and love covered bridges. Ya'll remember the Burma Shave signs?? Can't remember any off the top of my head,but used to enjoy them.

FYI: Clark Byers, who painted "See Rock City" on so many of the barns passed away just a few days ago: http://www.tennessean.com/obits/archives/04/02/47250176.shtml

Yes, Terry. When I read that first post I scrolled down and planned to post the same thing that you did. Two great minds running on the same track, huh?

We just passed a newly-painted mailpouch ad on a barn today on our way to Holmes County. Not too far down the road was an example of a really old mural on another barn. I wish now I'd asked Howie to pull the van over to get a shot!

I hope you liked the Barns and Covered Bridges. Some years ago I discovered an artist by the name of Jim Harrison. I grew up in South Carolina and so did Jim. I became interested in advertising on the barns and of course became a great admirer of Jim's painting style; thus, I began collecting his prints when I could afford them. Later on I decided that the Advertising was a true art form and began collecting much of the advertising in his art work. Let me tell you: It doesn't take long to have more in your collection than you have home to put it in! All in all it has been fun as a hobby and interest. Enjoy a few of Jim's art pieces!
Gary/Louisville

http://www.jimharrison.com/

For those of you who enjoyed the Burmas Shave Slogans, I share these with you. Enjoy!
Gary/Louisville

http://seniors-site.com/funstuff/burma.html

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm

Rock City and Ruby Falls used to be painted on just about every old barn in AL that I ever saw. But lately, many of those barns have disappeared or fallen in. Wow, it wasn't that long ago was it?

skatayama

OH yes, those are beautiful, I never think to take photo's of them!! Next time we go on a road trip, I will remember to snap some photos of them here, and I just love to see those old barns!!!

Laurrie

GardenWife, some years ago I was visiting in Wooster and teaching a course in Folkways at Wooster College. It was a week long program the Presbyterians were conducting. While I was out on a back road near there I came across an old Mail Pouch barn painting. I couldn't wait to tell my wife who was staying at our aunts who taught at Wooster for years; we had to drive out to see the barn and of course she rode along. She couldn't comprehend our excitement over an old barn painting. She died last year at the age of 95.
Gary/Louisville

Gary, I understand the excitement! :) Many of our barns in Ohio have been painted with the Bicentennial motif. Here's info about them: http://www.ohio200.org/barns/facts.asp

I've seen these... thanks for the link Gary, wish they'd painted one of our barns!


They have a festival every year celebrating this bridge, called what else? The covered Bridge Festival!
http://www.ohiobarns.com/covbri/oh/high/35-36-06.html

And this one isn't too far from me, (15 miles maybe) it's an amazing sight.

http://www.ohiobarns.com/covbri/oh/brow/35-08-05.html

When I was young, there were many covered bridges still in use in Southern Ohio. (And I'm not THAT old) I can remember driving through many of them, and wondering what would happen if my dad would "slip" off the boards.

http://www.ohiobarns.com/covbri/oh/knox/35-42-B.html

We passed by this bridge on Thursday on our way back from Holmes County. It's so long! We were on SR 62 and could see it to our left, but didn't stop to look.

The bridge is in/near the town of Brinkhaven. There's a nice spot by the river where Howie and I like to picnic sometimes. One summer, we saw a bunch of Amish boys swimming near us; they'd led their horse into the water and were climbing on it in the water and jumping off its back. At first we thought they were skinny dipping, but it turned out their underclothes were beige!

gardenwife: that is a cute story!!

We do have some lovely barns and bridges around here (OH). I love taking photos of them, had lots on old computer, then it died and I got this one, my friend copied the stuff for me from the old hard drive, but not sure yet what all is on it, I really need to get to that!!

There is also an old covered bridge where we camp sometimes. Have photos of the kids on it. Need to find it!!

Melissa_Oh, I remember those same thougts!! the paths were pretty narrow on those bridges!!

Thanks for the website. I love covered bridges and red barns and old grist mills. On vacation I always try to find one.
I have some post cards on my fridge now of them. I bought dad a book of barn photos in the US.
I would like to make a bird house with the See Rock City.
Anyone have a pattern?

They used to sell those in lots of shops in the region and probably still do. Have you checked the internet for them?

I don't understand what's the thing about covered bridges - why are they covered? :D

To keep the rain off the water! Am I a smarty pants or what????

My second cousin paints all sorts of country scenes and such on barn siding and regular canvas and sells them. Recently she has been making her income from photographing and doing bridges. My Christmas card from her this year was covered with those Bicentennial bridges. I wish my scanner was working! The card was truly neat. She is super creative. Last year or the year before, she used a photo of my great grandma and the print was from a painting she did from the photo. That one brought tears to my eyes.

Because it helped the horses cross without getting spooked. That can happen pretty easy.

Instead of the horses needing blinders they just covered the bridges so they would not get spooked. That can happen pretty easily.

Horses don't like rivers? :) Or crossing bridges?

No Evert, it was to stop the bridges from getting icy and freezing. They don't do that anymore, but I have been on bridges that were icy before the roads and gotten a few nasty surprises when my car started sliding. It's much scarier to think you might slide off a bridge into freezing water.
We had one bridge in our county; the Shuford Bridge. Mr Shuford tried to charge a toll to use it because the road crossed his land, but people didn't "cotton" to that idea. Neither did the state government.

Ahaa.. that makes sense of course. :)

Here is my favorite spot in the world. Humpback Bridge just off I-64 in Virginia.....This was made last summer as I traveled from WV down to Va....stopping to have lunch with Lousia!! Jo

I forgot to say that it is the last remaining curved bridge in the USA.....or so I read somewhere. This is a great spot to stop for a picnic. Only about a mile off the Interstate.

Evert...I was also told that another reason they were covered was so the indians could not attact them while they were crossing the river/creeks. Jo

Early this morning I could not see either of my posts. Anyone ever have that problem.

The site was hacked and eventually crashed, bluegrass; it could have been related to that. Is everything okay now? Dave had to restore from a backup.

I had the same problem and everything is OK this morning..

It is this morning. I had an email from another Dave that said he was having problems getting on the site.
Gardenwife, have you been to techie school? I wish I knew more about computers!

What do you mean by "another Dave"?

I will answer for Kimberly until she comes on line. Yes, she is a well trained computer expert.

Another subscriber to Daves. This morning it just said webpage unavailable to me.

bluegrass, ck out the reason for that at the Dave's Garden Forum.

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Ellen, thanks for the vote of confidence, but noooo, I am not an expert! My associate degree's in business management/marketing, but my first job out of college allowed me to play with computers a lot when my boss didn't have work for me. "Look busy" was all he said, so I puttered around with Word and other programs and just had fun learning them. I was hooked and just kept playing, reading and tinkering from there on. Howie graduated 10 years after me with an associate in programming from the same technical college.

As far as I am concerned, Kim, you are the bestest!!!! What I shall say now is that you are a self made computer expert?

Ellen I know about some things -- and I know where to turn for answers -- but I'm no expert. Thanks, though! :)

Some teacher taught my husband in college that the most important main thing that you learn is where to look for things and he has quoted that teacher ever since then. Some folks never have learned that! You have!!!!!!! You are much too modest, Kim, but it is a becoming trait.