{"id":9260,"date":"2022-08-25T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2022-09-07T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:06:33","slug":"deer-lodge-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/08\/25\/deer-lodge-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Lodge Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checked out the car museum here in Deer Lodge and was surprised how good it was!\u00a0\u00a0 I was thinking there would be a bunch of cars, but there seemed to be hundreds after you snaked thru a lot of rooms where you couldn&#8217;t see more till you walked thru the next doorway.\u00a0 They had a lot of old cars starting out with an odd looking 3 wagon-wheeled contraption that looked like it would tip over on any turn,\u00a0 and ended up with 1970&#8217;s muscle cars.\u00a0 There was even a Super Bird in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>One of the coolest displays I have ever seen was a 1933 Kozy <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9311\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200004-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200004-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200004-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200004.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>Kamper Pop-up Trailer.\u00a0 It was in very good shape for something that will be 90 years old next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9315\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200008-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200008-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200008-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200008.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>To my delight there was even a funny little car that one of my childhood eccentric neighbors picked me up in when I was\u00a0 hitchhiking to the beach one summer morning.\u00a0 When he stopped, he opened the door, which was the whole front of the car.\u00a0 Even the steering wheel moved with that door.\u00a0 It was a bright-red German Messerschmidt, exactly the same as the one I was currently standing in front of!\u00a0 I had never seen anything like it back then, nor have I ever seen another one since then, till today.\u00a0 This one was even the same color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9313\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200006-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200006-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200006-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200006.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>This picture is of a car with the first car air-conditioner, looked more like a swamp cooler to me<\/p>\n<p>This town even had a large Safeway Grocery Store, and the town itself is much smaller than our prior stop, Livingston, MT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9314\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200007-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200007-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200007-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200007.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9312\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200005-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200005-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200005-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200005.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9310\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200003.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9309\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200002-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DeerLodgeMT202200002-150x113.jpg 150w, 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