We stopped by the Keystone Gallery after visiting Monument Rocks, south of Oakley, Kansas. Unfortunately the Gallery was not yet open for the season. Still, our stop turned out to interesting.
Immediately adjoining the Gallery was a large pasture wherein we spotted this bison. He was surprisingly near and, as we had a barb-wire fence between us, we hopped out of our car to try to snap some close-up photos — the closest I’ve ever been to a bison (a.k.a. buffalo).
At first we thought this bison was alone, but soon it became apparent that he was part of a small herd as others started drifting over a rise in the pasture. A small reminder of a time when thousands of bison covered these hills and plains.
This building houses the Keystone Gallery. It’s over a hundred years old and was built as a church, though abandoned some time before the Gallery acquired it. The Gallery displays local aquatic fossils as well as art. It also has a gift shop.
I want to know what that is parked out behind the gallery. I’m guessing the Car Guy knows.
Can’t be certain, because it gets fuzzy when blown up, but the shape and proportion look right to me for a 1948 Plymouth. Anyone else?
Here’s a ’39 for comparison. The grille change to all-horizontal took place around ’41, the last year of full production. Note that the ’39’s fenders still show some stylistic reminder of when they were not integrated into the body shape. The remnant of running board disappeared before the first post-war designs. I picked 1948, but it could have been a year or two earlier, but definitely not pre-war.