Mostly For The Iowan's

Where's Iowa?

Just curious where the state fair is??? We hear about that clear down here in the hills.
Knoxville nationals as well.

Guys, the past few years Winterset Iowa has been rated the best town in Iowa (around 5000 people) to live and raise a family. Most of the town square along with the courthouse are on the National Historic Register. John Wayne's original home is here, along with the new J Wayne museum. I have been told his wife and kids have donated a lot of stuff used in his movies to the museum. The building where his dad had his pharmacy is still here. There are many completely restored homes here that are on the National Historical Regrestry. We have 5 or 6 of the original Covered Bridges. My partner in the tire business came within about 1/10th of an inch of running over Clint Eastwood. He was filming and stepped out in front of Eddie, my partner. Most of the buildings used in the movie are still here. We have no Walmart, a great dime store, a great local owned lumber yard, no Mc Donalds, some of the greatest pizza in the state, pretty good schools, and very friendly folks. 2 great locally owned restruarants. There might be 1 old geezer who is unfriendly, did I mention I am in the old geezer age range now. . 1 JD dealership, 1 great car dealership, they have my order for a new pickup, good horsepistol, and the really great thing-- great kids. I moved here in 1986 and will probably never completely move away.

The Matt Edel blacksmith shop in Haverhill Iowa is way up on my bucket list.

Edited by Thad in AR. - 29 Dec 2018 at 4:44pm

IA has a bunch of dead end roads...makes it hard when being chased by cops! Winterset IA has a lying motel manager, and IA I think is the reason all the trees in NE lean to the east!

Just teasing the guys from Kansas.

TOM!!!  How do you get anything done with no McDonalds or Wal Mart ? 

I vote for Dyersville for Farm Toys Capitol of the  World , and Williamsburg for the Kinze manufacturing.

Musco Lighting is in Oskaloosa not Muscatine.

Edited by Brian Jasper co. Ia - 30 Dec 2018 at 12:57am

Better study your history of Musco Lighting.

How about Dows, iowa? Several years ago we blundered into this little town off of I-35 in north central Iowa and went through their museum. Not big but very  interesting. They had an old local blacksmith shop with an old electric welder or two and a forge. In the blacksmith shop there were quite a number of Weiss replacement plow points and edges. My father used those same Weiss parts in his shop back before there were the throw away shares. There was also an old country school and a very little house where a couple had raised around 10-12 children, can't remember exactly. Some other interesting stuff too. The folks operating the museum were very friendly and before we knew it we had spent half of the day there. It's a couple of miles off the interstate so I imagine most travelers don't get there.

And how does Nevada stack up to all this?