1922
Citation: 209.1185.4-5 (Full image size: 78Kb)
Article from the July 27, 1922, "Ames Daily Tribune," telling about how people touring the United States in vehicles would camp at the new "tourist camps." Ames had such a camp near the Chautauqua grounds on the then northeast corner of town (the north part of what was to become the Municipal Cemetery). Water and toilet facilities were provided in the park and during the summer from ten to twenty camp sites were occupied on most nights. (See also: 209.1186.1-2)
Citation: 209.1186.3-4 (Full image size: 69Kb)
Article from page one of the August 28, 1922, "Ames Daily Tribune" telling about the many tourists who stopped at the camp near the Chautauqua grounds, between Tenth and Thirteenth streets near what is now Maxwell Avenue (the north part of what is now the Municipal Cemetery). Some of the tourists were on their way to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Because of improved roads more peole were beginning to attend the state fair rather than the county fairs. Story County's fair used to draw a large crowd; today [2003] in Iowa, only Clay County's fair could be described as a "mini-state fair." The article notes that the campers come from many states. Farwell Brown remembers stopping with his family to count the out-of-state cars on Lincoln Way during the summers of his childhood. Those cars were very dusty from the many dirt roads they had crossed to reach their destinations.
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