The funny thing is that I had never noticed the immense cow on the front of this building on previous visits to the capital of the high country -- and I'm told it's been there for years! Right on Milton. I guess my eye for detail and differences has changed since I started in on this blog project!
Also on Milton: this emporium where the idea appears to be to catch 'em getting ready for the first date -- and for the final date! By the way, if you are in the market for a Flagstaff business, here's your big chance -- check the leftmost window.
There's more than 13,000 students and 2000 feet elevation difference between Prescott and Flagstaff. Old building materials, to give an example. The building above is made from basalt stones, in contrast to Prescott's granite and river cobbles.
Old Main on the NAU campus provides a classic example of the other Flagstaff building stone: large bricks of Supai limestone -- quarried about three miles east of the center of town, says the son-in-law. (BTW, when my Aunt Iola attended NAU in the 20s, then the state normal school, those huge trees were not yet born.)
A Flagstaff sign that has gone missing since we first came to Arizona in the 80s -- the one fronting the one-time drive-in ammo and liquor store! The business is still there; it's a little more sedate now.
Arizona's rough edges are being gradually whittled away. A pity.
The cow has been there at least since 2001; NAU's photo collection has a pic dated that year.
ReplyDeleteA picture of Old Main from 1901.
ReplyDeleteAnd one from 1923
ReplyDeleteThank you, dotter, for the links. As your dh said yesterday, the trees were NOT there in Aunt Iola's time!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I checked out "furniture barn" on Google. No, it isn't a chain that came into being, riding the wholesome bucolic coattails of Gateway computer.