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The Historic Ashland Armory has been around for almost a hundred years. I’ve been in Ashland for 10 of those and have yet to go inside. This Friday night I plan to enter the building for the first time in order to see a Led Zeppelin cover band called Zepparella. Should be fun…
Just another photo from my pre-dawn photos I took a few weeks back. This one is from the plaza in downtown Ashland looking up Siskiyou Blvd. towards the Ashland Springs Hotel which you can see in the distance.
As mentioned yesterday, it took me 10 years to notice The Peerless Hotel, even though it is noted in 1,000 Places To See Before You Die.
The building, and Coke sign, were refreshed in the 1990s after seeing more than 90 years of very few changes.
I have lived in Ashland now for almost 10 years, but for some reason The Peerless never made it on my radar screen. Strange since the place was built 110 years ago and is on the National Register of Historic Places. We had dinner at the restaurant last week. The food was good, although not spectacular. I’ll show you a photo of the outside of The Peerless Hotel tomorrow.
Last week we went to Britt Gardens (“The Britt”) to see Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour.” I had never heard of Garrison Keillor before. It was an interesting evening, but I was at least 25 years too young to fully enjoy it all (thank goodness!). This was my first Britt show in maybe three years. Last time I was front and center for Chicago which was lots of fun.
Anyway, Jacksonville is a beautiful town, perhaps the best preserved of its era in the USA (or at least the western states). I’ll have to post more from Jacksonville in the future. Jacksonville is less than 20 miles from Ashland. Pictured above is what (I’m guessing based on the writing on the brick wall) is the old Levi Strauss Building.
The tallest building in town, the Ashland Springs Hotel (formerly known as the Mark Antony and before that as the Lithia Hotel) is moving into its 85th year. Tomorrow thousands will gather in front of or near the hotel from all over Oregon and Northern California to participate in Ashland’s Fourth of July festivities.
I probably should have waited another week or two to take this one as the leaves are just beginning to appear. In a few weeks this tree will be really green. Oh well. Here is what it looked like last fall.
Even the cemeteries are screaming new life at this time of year.
