Iola old car show

joe 1950

joe 1950

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Good news the Iola old car show is on for this year july 8-10 just received my registration in the mail yesterday
 
Got the email yesterday about this. A great time to be had for all, especially since this last year, keeping my fingers crossed for a more normal 2021 !!!
 
Our group stopped at the Iola Show on our way to the Early Ford V-8 Club's 2015 Central National Meet in Brainerd, Minnesota. We all had a great two days at Iola, but unfortunately the meet at Brainerd had to be canceled due to a severe storm.
 
ford38v8 said:
Off subject, I love the pole barn at Iola! We don’t see that stuff out west at all.
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For those not familiar, the main chow hall at Iola is in a big barn they call "the pole barn". Good eggs & sausage breakfasts every morning, served by the local boy scouts. And some dad flipping flap-jacks, pointing to the ones on the floor he missed, "we call those floor jacks."

Then there is the great pork chop dinner with several sides! Good food, good times, good memories in Wisconsin farm country!
 
The Boy Scouts don't serve the breakfast any longer, but they do offer a hauling service of your large purchases and parts. Jeff's group has been serving the choice of pancakes, sausage, and coffee or orange juice, or you can cross over and get scrambled eggs, ham, coffee or oj. Good fast breakfast to start your day of interesting searches in the aisles of Iola.
 
Strange to me that all you midwesterners would rather talk about pancakes than the pole barn. To me, those barns are national treasures. Don’t even get me started on cupolas!
 
flatjack9 said:
This pole barn is merely a large metal shed. No treasure.
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Well, they must have torn it down. I haven't been there in years, but it wasn't merely "large", it was gigantic, and was a pole barn. To my recollection, it was down by the roadway at the lower corner. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me?
 
There is a barn down by the road. The pancake place is a steel shed. I was confused as to what you were talking about.
 
The barn down by the road is the "Toy Barn". Vendors with model cars, etc set up in there.
For many years the local Lions Club sold fried chicken (lots of it!). I think that's not being done anymore. Things change.
 
The Toy Barn really is an impressive building. Looks to be over 100 years old. Stone construction ground level, classic heavy timber barn second level. While my son is checking out the toys, I'm taking-in the barn. Agree with Ford38v8, old barns like this are national treasures.
 
JayChicago said:
The Toy Barn really is an impressive building. Looks to be over 100 years old. Stone construction ground level, classic heavy timber barn second level. While my son is checking out the toys, I'm taking-in the barn. Agree with Ford38v8, old barns like this are national treasures.
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That's it! And I thought I must have looked a fool staring up in the lofty elevations of that barn! I remember another barn, somewhere in Wisconsin? It was also outsize, but it was round. Wish i could have seen that one up close!

I believe the year of that trip was 1998. I took a full month driving my '38 from Detroit, zigzagging up and down these 48, and home to California!
 
ford38v8 said:
Off subject, I love the pole barn at Iola! We don’t see that stuff out west at all.
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I have a pole barn to keep my car collection in. It is 80 by 200 feet, used to be a rodeo arena. Can’t beat it until you try to heat it.
 
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Pole barns were originally built using something like round telephone poles sunk into the ground but now they are primarily built using treated square posts.
 

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38bill said:
Pole barns were originally built using something like round telephone poles sunk into the ground but now they are primarily built using treated square posts.
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Exactly, very good explanation. Mine is 8 x 8 square posts. You could never afford to build it today. White oak posts and the rest of the building what appears to be clear cedar. Mostly 2 by 10 and 2 by 12 lumber.
 
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