It is that time again, Sky Watch Friday. I have never posted a photograph on the site more than once but today I am going to make an exception. I previously posted this photo almost one year ago when the blog was new and the viewers were few, so here it is again.This was taken in front of the Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming while vacationing there with my family in July 2005. This is a beautiful little town that I would like to visit again. Since we have been there one of my sons mentors in hockey and an all around nice person Tim Tookey has moved there and is running the ice hockey program. If any of you follow hockey Tim is a member of the AHL Hall of Fame, a past Hershey Bear great and played on a number of other teams including a few short stints in the NHL. Good luck this season Tim.
Cody, Wyoming is home to Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel and Saloon. Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) helped found Cody, Wyoming in 1895, and established his TE ranch in the area. In 1902, he built the Irma Hotel, which he called “just the sweetest hotel that ever was.” Buffalo Bill maintained two suites and an office at the hotel for his personal use.
When the Burlington Railroad completed a spur line into Cody, his plan was to have travelers stay at Buffalo Bill’s Hotels in the Rockies on their way to the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. They included the Irma Hotel in Cody, near the railroad; Wapiti Inn (a day’s wagon ride west) and Pahaska Teepee near the East gate of the park.
The Irma Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service, in recognition of its contribution to the cultural foundations of America. It was designed by Alfred Wilderman Woods, a Lincoln, Nebraska church architect. Certain exterior walls are made of river rock and locally quarried sandstone from Beck Lake just south of town. The fireplace is an assemblage of rock, ores, minerals, and fossils from the Big Horn Basin.
The Irma’s famous cherry wood bar dates to the period of construction and is one of the most photographed features in all of Cody. The original part of the hotel was built for Buffalo Bill in 1902. The northwest addition was constructed in 1929, and the southwest addition was added in 1976-1977.
110 comments:
Tim Tookey..Great Hockey Player...
I've always liked this photograph. This is one of the first ones I looked at on your blog when I started blogging.
Thanks for the welcome back by the way. I have enjoyed the other Skywatch sites alot...
what a great site to see, i have been to Cody which my son went to school there, also named his son, gets pretty windy there. Mine will be up in awhile
What a fantastic shot. It's like a postcard for anytown usa. So Americana, I love it. Hey, the skies are simply dramatic.
Great job. Happy skywatching.
This is a dew-rific capture! I love the way the colors of the setting sun capture the hotel neon. How awesome!
I am glad you posted it again. I have never seen it and I love it. The color of the sky is perfect and the exposure of the lights and town makes it a fabulous picture
Very nide shot. I agree it is a picture of Americana and the sky is awesome.
Cheers
Beautiful colours! You were right to use it again I often do the same. Thanks for the visit and comment.
Awesome picture!
Take care
That was beautiful sky. Love the color.
I hope have time to stop at my SWF post : in here and here Thanks
I hadn't seen this photo and am glad that you showed it again! It is beautiful and so colorful! What interesting historical information to go along with it! I really enjoy reading and learning from others experiences and seeing new places! Great post!
Great photo, and the colour, and not only in the sky.love the post.
Cody looks like a lovely little town!
Very lovely shot. Makes a person sure want to visit there. Could be a postcard I think!
Great photo. Perfect sky for the scene.
Well done
thanks for the visit,
Troy
PS: I am sure there were at least 2 bears.
it is worth it that you have posted this photo. as it is really lovely to see with the sky on that town..
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Perfection! Love the red sky with that lights on!
Wonderful photo! Wish I was there and not stuck at work :)
Bradley: A beautiful sky over cody. Nicely done with a great intro and post.
Glad you reposted that.I'm only new at this game and that one is certainly worth seeing. Great sky and lovely little town.
Wow - gorgeous shot! Happy SWF!
Fantastic colours! Like the composition too, great shot.
Dirkjogt, Belgium
Great shot and History. Beautiful sky colors.
here's a man who knows how to handle a camera!
a great shot my friend... great shot.
Good that you did! It's a cool shot!
Cheers, Klaus
That really is a great shot, I really like how you got whole street all the way down.
An interesting post thanks
Nice shot Brad...
I just ca;t wait to get back out there. It can't come soon enough!!!
Good Western sky!
That is one fabulous sky and after reading your post I'd love to visit Cody!
Amazing! Love all the colours in it. You did a very good job on this one:)
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This is an incredibly expressive shot, so many stories within one picture, perfect! :-)
I am glad you posted it a second time!
Nice shot. I like the bikes too :-)
A fantastic shot. Great capture. I enjoyed the commentary about Cody. I remember Wild Bill Cody's burial site in Colorado. Nice posting glad you came back.
That shot is full of so much character - worth framing. Great job.
The sky is terrific, but the whole photo is. I love the composition and color and just the "feel" of this one. Excellent job!
What a wonderful shot!very very nice sky!beautiful
what a great idea to post this again. otherwise, I would not see it.thanks for sharing.
Wonderful shot!
I'm glad you posted that again because I didn't see it the first time and it's great. Beautiful sky but the whole scene is so well shot too.
Amazing photo. Thanx for sharing.:))
Worth a second look, for sure - for anyone who's been around that long. Stunning. I loved Wyoming - only been there once, and would love to go back.
WOW! That is breath taking! Thanks so much for sharing it!! Have a great Friday and weekend!
fabulous shot! I love the place very beautiful with a gorgeous sky. I love to eat in that Irma Restaurant GRILLL..
wow, great photo you were able to catch all the little details of the whole scene. All the more interesting story.
PS thanks for your kind comments on my post earlier.
Cody wasn't on my list of places to visit. Your photo makes it look quite pleasant! Great colors.
That sidewalk just leads you into the photo under those lovey sunset clouds. No wonder you used this again. Nice shot.
This is about as good as sky gets. The perspective is good too and leads right down the street to it.
Hi Bradley,
Thanks for the visit and the comment. The Irma sounds like my kind of plce!
I love the shot! I like how the sky blended well with the neon lights!
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Very cool. Love the colors of the sky.
What a retro kind of shot...the sky matches the grill perfectly.
wow! look at those colors! brilliant!
I love this, and I missed it the first time around. I'm glad you reposted, along with the historical background.
Thanks for the grat comments everyone. This was always one of my favorites from what is also a favorite location. When I posted earlier hardly anyone looked at the site and I really wanted to share it.
Thank you for visiting wingsnthings and bringing me here this is going to be a fun blog to follow. Your skywatch photo is wonderful!
Excellent photo! Sounds like a place Ive got to get to someday.
I am glad you reposted. I love the sign and the colors in the sky.
Beautiful sky! Hopefully one day we will get to visit that part of the country.
Well done!
Fantastic sky, marvelous colors!
Perfect capture!
Have a nice weekend.
Santilli
Wow what a cool photo. It's neat to see what's going on under that sky too! Mary
Great shot! That sky looks amazing and to me actually compliments the sign. :-)
Wow, the neon signs have nothing on that sky! Great image.
Love it! So glad you reposted. Great to have all your historical notes, too.
Interesting history. The neon signs are neat, but they don't hold a candle to those gorgeous hues in the sky... that's my opinion. Still, I like that you got all of that in your shot.
Beautiful shot and fascinating history :)
Very fun shot!
Amazing sky & colors.
Great photo.
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It looks like a photo out of a movie.
a brilliant picture! thank you for reposting it..
The sky has an interesting look, considering you are a fireman. It almost looks like a fire is reflecting on the fluffy clouds.
A fine SW pic and a very evocative
one. A good photograph.
excellent composition. wonderful choice for swf
How I love this pic! The colours, the lines, the whole composition is simply striking and creative! Brilliant!
Stunning!
All I can say is WOW!!!
lovely sky great pic of what looks to be a wonderful place rich in history to visit!
thank you.
Really gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing!
I really link that photo! I can't put my finger on what's so appealing but there's something about it that is really appealing to me.
Beautiful photo & interesting post about the area--my old back yard since I'm a westerner, born and raised in Idaho.
Your blog if always interesting and colorful to visit.
Happy weekend!
nice entry for this weeks SWF...TC
Wow! what history! Glad you decided to photograph it again otherwise I would have missed it. Beautiful!
love the color of the sky!
my skywatch post is here
It's my first time here at your wonderful blog and seeing such a great photo liike this really made me want to go here often! Just look at your shot! It's just like a wonderful pop artwork! Seriously, I loved it! Almost every skywatch I have visited, maybe a dozen already are all great!
Have a great weekend out there and Mabuhay all the way here from the Philippines! Hope you visit my Cavite Daily Photo!
Steven^^
Fine post, pic and story.
Gorgeous photo! I love the colours!
The picture is a beauty, and I enjoyed reading about Cody and all the info... great SW post
Tom
As soon as I saw this gorgeous sky-graph I knew you were out West. My first thought was South Dakota, I was close!
It's beautiful! Thanks for the visit.
fantastic view also with the moror in front very pretty picture, also a sky on the background:) Very nice.
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Excellent capture! The clouds look like they are on fire. Your firemen photos are very dramatic. I love the last one.
Spectacular!
I hope you can visit...I have giveaways too.
A great photo and a gorgeous sky. I'm glad you posted this again. We were in Wyoming last year but didn't get to Cody unfortunately. I enjoyed learning some of its history :)
So glad you decided to rerun this shot - it is spectacular!
Its great! I so glad you did this exception, cause it really is a great photo. Thank you for your nice comment on my blog.
The sky competes with the neon for a total look.
What an amazing picture the colors are breathtaking.
What a dramatic sky that adds emotion to the already lovely composition! I love sky watch a lot and I thank you for sharing this.
Sorry to have dropped by so late, but its still Friday from my part of the globe. Visiting from Vienna Daily.
Amazing colours in the sky and an interesting place to visit.
It's my first time to visit, and I can't decide whether I like the photo or your prose better — I like photos with stories. Thank you for sharing this lovely image and the information!
Definitely worth posting twice...
Wow! Gorgeous sky, beautiful colors, and harleys and such a pretty place...great skywatch capture!
Happy weekend!
And Happy sky~watching!
Cat
what a very beautiful and almost iconic slice of Americana! Great sky, too. :)
Nice neon effect.
My Sky
That is a beautiful sky. Thanks for the information on the hotel. I learned a lot!
Fantastic shot and colors Bradley!
That's quite a view. Thanks!
The above post is absolutely compelling. Thank you for that, too.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Cody years ago. The Buffalo Bill museum was especially nice among other things.
The western towns make for the best photographs of Main Street. We were in South Dakota and I love their Main Street scenes.
So glad you decided to revisit this shot. It's a beauty and I love the piece of history and background you gave to go along with it.
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