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Ed’s Dream
This place really was Ed Galloway’s dream – he started building what became Totem Pole Park in 1937, and continued adding to the place until his death in 1962. The place fell into disrepair after that, but by the late 1980s, Ed was recognized as one of America’s noteworthy folk artists and restoration work on the part was begun. This article notes that it’s taken longer to restore Ed’s creations than it took him to build them and that the original paint colors on the huge concrete totem pole have been duplicated with special, long-lasting paint.
If you’re in the area, you ought to stop by; admission’s free and in the mornings, it’s nicely shady.
Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park
Foyil, Oklahoma
photographed 10.12.2021
PS: That’s the world’s largest concrete totem pole, in case you keep track of things like that.
PS: The place is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
PS: Here’s the place in color.
Totem Pole Parking
Maybe you’ve hesitated to take your totem pole and get out on the road, not knowing where you could even park a totem pole. Lucky for you: I found the place, right here in Oklahoma. For trip-planning purposes, though, please not that you cannot park your totem pole overnight. Which sort of opens up some other complications, doesn’t it?
Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park
Foyil, Oklahoma
photographed 10.12.2021
God, on Zoom
Of course, a lot of people got used to using Zoom during the pandemic. It’s just a regular tool these days – and we don’t really think anything about it.
However, I didn’t really think that God used Zoom as a way to communicate. Just shows what I know, right?
Luther, Oklahoma
photographed 10.11.2021
Glancy
Oh, man! What a find! An out of business hotel, complete with a sign with a lot of fonts, a nice variety of shapes, and the relics of some old neon.
And this was a fun find: the Clinton City Council voted unanimously in August 2019 to have the building demolished. Apparently that didn’t happen,: in 2021 the Clinton Economic Development Authority authorized $7.75 million to renovate the hotel and an adjoining restaurant.
From what I saw, it’ll take every bit of that money to renovate the place, which had, according to the second article, “fallen into a deep decline.”
Clinton, Oklahoma
photographed 10.10.2021
Lunch Cook
Lately I’ve been feeling like I want to photograph people. This is surprising because it goes against every single thing I thought I knew about my photographic self. Yet, here we are.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 10.9.2021
One Day | One Image 