Road Trip out West, May 8 2017

Leif Norman

Heather and I loaded up our slightly used but new to us 2015 Nissan Micra for a big trip out to the Pacific Ocean.

The first day was Winnipeg to Yorkton with a stop in Neepawa on the way by.

A house on skids all by itself in a farmer’s field. Oakville Manitoba

 

 

 

We jammed a lot of camping gear in the back of the Micra

 

 

2015 Nissan Micra

 

The Yorkton Campground campsite

 

 

John A Davidson house. 1887. Neepawa Manitoba

 

 

 

awesome old mansion in Neepawa

 

Neepawa Manitoba

 

 

Neepawa Manitoba, Bamboo Chinese Food Restaurant

 

Neepawa Dollar Store

 

Cool vintage neon sign. Neepawa Press

 

William Penn Oils painted sign

 

William Penn Motor Oil, Vintage metal sign

 

Heidelberg printing press for sale. Neepawa Press.

 

 

FREE used photo chemicals

 

 

Tom from Neepawa

 

Vintage office interior, Neepawa

 

Vivian Motor Hotel, awesome vintage tile pattern

 

Owen shows us one of the old ways of printing the Neepawa Press

 

The Neepawa Press has been printing since May 18, 1896

 

 

Ken Waddell, who runs the Neepawa Press, shows us the newspaper archives

 

In the 1940’s advertisers bragged about sending cigarettes to the soldiers overseas!

 

Awesome boiler knobs and dials.Ken gave us a very thorough tour of the old Neepawa press building.

 

Vintage Mergenthaler Linotype Machine

 

 

The old basement darkroom

 

Restricted Darkroom, Treck Photographic

 

Vintage Paint cans

 

Help! Vintage Printing equipment.

 

Vote for Ken Waddell, a few years ago.