Vintage Delight

I believe I yelled, "Stop the car!" when I saw this building.  There was no way that I was going to allow this vintage charmer to escape my camera lens.  Don't you just love it?

Now I just need to dig up some history on it.  The inside is quintessential 1940s and 1950s, maybe as far back as the 20s or 30s.  I don't know.  It'd sure help if I had my Mom with me on trips like this because I could ask her when she was growing up if the places were similar.

I know it reminds me of one of the rare Woolworth's lunch counters I glimpsed that amazingly still existed when I was a very little girl in the 1960s.  I can still see that counter in my mind's eye to this day.

Central Dairy is located in Jefferson City, MO.

Missouri's Capitol in Jefferson City

I've traveled 48 states and I grew up in two capital cities and seen a good many of the others, but funny enough, I'd never seen Missouri's capital of Jefferson City.  Here's some shots of the capitol building taken with my new JVC Everio GZ-HD500, which I absolutely love.  Now I've got that clear JVC quality which I so missed.  I sold my Sony Handycam on eBay to a buyer in Brazil, so good-bye irksome pictures.

The journey to pick up my precious Ragdoll, Hawthorn, resulted in a return trip via Highway 54.  When I looked at the map, I saw that 54 cut right down to the Ozarks from I-70 quite nicely.  It's a road I've not been on before, so bonus, plus it covered three places I've never been, but have wanted to see:  Jeff City, Osage Beach and Buffalo.  I've seen Lake of the Ozarks before, but always from Highway 13 when I'd come down from Kansas City, which is the very western edge and not the true heart of it.

I really enjoyed the ride down 54 and it's a highway I want to do a lot more exploring on.  There's a lot to see along it.