Rustic Multi-Story Log Lodge with 1950s Automobiles, Mountain West

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Rustic Multi-Story Log Lodge with 1950s Automobiles, Mountain West — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Somewhere in the mountain West, a massive three-story log structure holds its ground against a steep wooded hillside, the kind of building that went up when timber was the cheapest thing available and insulation wasn't a priority. The wraparound balconies on every floor and the dormered attic rooms mark it as a working lodge — the sort of place that advertised itself as rustic and meant it without apology, serving travelers who had driven considerable distances on roads that were considered good enough.

Parked out front, a two-tone red-and-white automobile — the optimistic tail-finned grammar of mid-1950s American design — sits next to a yellow station wagon, which in that decade was the universal signal that a family had arrived with children and luggage and expectations about the fishing. The cars date the scene more precisely than any sign could. The people who drove them believed this kind of lodge was permanent.

Buildings like this had already survived longer than anyone planned, kept upright by deferred maintenance and seasonal bookings. The family inside was probably asking about bears. The lodge was probably telling them what they wanted to hear.

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