In the American Outback

Gillette’s Trading Post. Saguache, Colorado, 2014

In the American West you’ll often come across these small, private, museums. Some bizarre, others banal, always interesting.

In this case, someone has a thing for World War II and Korean War era jeeps. He started collecting and fixing up a few, and it sort of snowballed from there.

The above vehicle reminds me of the feel-good, patriotic Rat Patrol TV show of the late 1960s, with its fans and detractors. It did indeed slight the Aussies and Brits with its fiction–enough so that the BBC refused to schedule it.

Terry Gillette’s Trading Post was closed when I went by, but I’ll most definitely have to mosey in next time I go through Saguache. You’ll see what I mean when you see the inside of his place at this Saguache Chamber of Commerce link. An American classic.