#junction city

[yesterdaysprint]

Portrait of Miss Voss, Junction City, Kansas, 1896

[unteriors]

W 11th Street, Junction City, Kansas.

[lightofcapricorn]

Hentze Farms in October.

[thestinkyman]

Went to Cliffapalooza 5 in Junction City OR last night, everyone was amazing!

[womens-vintage]

Cora Carlton in her wedding dress, Junction City, Kansas, 1909

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Ohio was no stranger to deadly building fires. But none of the previous fires foreshadowed the 1930 Easter Monday fire as closely as the October 8, 1928, dormitory blaze at the State Brick Plant at Junction City, Ohio, where fifteen inmates died and twenty-seven were severely injured. Indeed, the day after the Columbus disaster, one journalist noted that the Brick Plant fire had called attention to the perilous conditions that reigned in prison farms and road camps and other related facilities, describing them as “firetraps” lacking adequate provision for the immediate release of inmates in the event of a fire.

Unlike the dangerously overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary, holding close to 4,500 inmates, the dormitory at the Brick Plant was a “barn-like structure of wooden frame and corrugated iron covering, erected upon a ten foot brick foundation,” with accommodations for 275 prisoners “sleeping in two-tiered bunks arranged in pairs with narrow aisles between.” Including 13 trusties, who did not sleep in the dorm, there were a total of 288 men at the Plant.

Several inmates discovered the Brick Plant fire at midnight, but by the time the alarm resounded through the dimly lit dormitory room it was too late. The fire spread quickly along the building’s floor and framework, leaping “from bunk to bunk across narrow aisles, while convicts cursed and screamed as they struggled to open doors and windows.” Making matters even worse, the fire hydrant did not work. As in the Columbus blaze in 1930, the convicts were awakened in time to escape, but upon reaching the nearest exits found them locked and barred. According to guards and convicts, it was probable that “many of the dead were trampled to death in a ‘mad rush for the exits.’”

Convicts who had made it out into the fresh air remembered looking back through windows “into the flaming interior,” where they witnessed sights that they would never forget, seeing fellow prisoners “wreathed in flames, rushing to  and fro” before disappearing in the smoke and flames that enveloped them as they fell to the floor. The roof and walls soon collapsed, showering ring the onlookers and writhing victims with burning embers.

As in the Columbus fire, stories of convict heroism abounded. Among the heroes was a convict overcome by smoke and burned to death as he tried to rescue his friend. Another prisoner, who had been responsible for the prison commissary, ran inside to fight the flames but perished “on his job.” One inmate, Andy Kiebert, who made it out safely, ran back into the burning building to rescue the convict mascot, a terrier named Tiny King. The animal lover suffered burns but fought his way back out, emerging with the relatively unscathed dog under his coat.

News reports would describe the fifteen fire victims as “charred bodies, part of them only small piles of bones,” with “few or none … possible of identification.”  A dozen of the more seriously burned were taken to the hospital at the Ohio Pen for treatment. A cursory identification of the dead was attempted, but remained tentative, their identifications being based for the most part on the location of the body when found. Prisoners aided in the task “to some extent,” but not with any degree of certainty. In the early going, the only ones identified were two African American inmates. A prison dentist examined the victims’ teeth to aid in the identifications. The remains were buried in the New Lexington Cemetery, where markers were set up for those whose identities had been established. Twenty men were missing, three of whom, officials believed, had seized the opportunity to escape during the confusion that followed the fire’s discovery. Others, including many cons, insisted none had escaped. Despite the opportunity for a learning moment, few lessons had been learned at the Junction City fire."

- Mitchel Roth, Fire in the Big House: America's Deadliest Prison Disaster. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. p. 89-90.

[missing-girls-and-women]

Beverly Ann Ward, 13

Last seen in Junction City, Kansas in 1978.

[believing-is-seeing]

A truck stop with a bidet!!!

Sapp Brothers, Junction City, Kansas

October 2023

[northgazaupdates]

1 July 2024

Journalist Hamza Hammad reports on Telegram that IOF quadcopters (unpiloted drones with mounted guns) are attacking civilians on the busy Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in Gaza City at Al-Shuja’iyya Junction. Omar al-Mukhtar Street is a site of commerce and social gathering.

[loverofpiggies]

can we see more of your comic with Winter King being:

Hey! I do my best to update as often as I can, and thank you so much for reading it! I appreciate the heck outta all the reblogs and comments and all that!

Updates might have to slow down a bit though, I do all the writing, drawing, coloring- the whole process is me! And doing as much as I've done for the last month has been a bit insane so I'm trying to have a better comic/life balance. That, and work balance. Comics are my passion but they unfortunately do not pay my mortgage!

Don't you worry though! It'll update soon, I'm working on coloring page 4 of the chapter, but YEAH I definitely have to slow down from my insane pace a bit.

[360nw]

Vintage Advertising on Hwy 99 - Between Junction City and Eugene, Oregon on River Road - May 2008

River Road was Old Highway 99 until it was realigned along its present route in 1936. The vintage Hotel Lithia sign is now gone.

[lightofcapricorn]

[misscromwellsmonocle]

A young woman named Minnie Adams, Junction City, Kansas (1897) by Joseph J. Pennell

[womens-vintage]

Clifford White and his wife were residents of Junction City, Kansas, in 1914. It is unclear what their professions or occupations were, or what their roles in the community may have been.

Junction City, Kansas, is a city located in Geary County, in the northeastern part of the state. In 1914, the city was home to around 4,500 people and was known for its military presence, as it was located near Fort Riley, one of the largest military installations in the United States.

It is possible that Clifford White and his wife were connected to the military in some way, either as soldiers or civilian employees of the base. Alternatively, they may have been involved in one of the many other industries that supported the local economy, such as agriculture, manufacturing, or transportation.

It is unknown who Clifford White and his wife were. However, their presence in the community is a reminder of the many individuals and families who have contributed to the growth and development of small towns and cities across America over the years.

[wanderingnewyork]

From 2017: An L train runs towards the tunnel from the #Broadway_Junction_Station, #Brooklyn.