Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign the falls churning pale through

the falls churning pale through downtown's brick and lamplight while rail bridges arch black against an indigo sky — a timber-and-flour city of streetcars and hydropower hummed to stillness

sheep wagons rolling in from the Basque country

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927 Barnstorming Tour 423f32 a press photograph from the autumn the Bustin' Babes and Larrupin' Lou's tore across the country

their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead

Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign the falls churning pale throughLake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washington State Highway 7 arrives in roadside repose neon trimmed cabins flanking the mineral shimmer of Soap Lake, where folks once soaked in healing waters thick with froth and minerals along the desert highway's edge. A mid century waystation of clean linens and curative promise, cataloged in the linen era postcards of the open road age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard