We decided to visit Rapid City's downtown area on Saturday. The motel provided van service for us and we took advantage of that. Parking could be a problem so we were glad to forget that.
We came upon a Heart event which included a 10k run. There were many related booths in this square that is being developed from what we were told was a parking lot. A group of singer/dancers were performing on this stage.
Part of the activities included food booths. Here sandwiches furnished without charge from Subway provided our lunch.
This fountain reminded us of Atlanta where we witnessed a similar feature. Sculptures adorn the park.
We posed alongside a work area where the sculptor works at his craft during the week. So one may watch creativity at work.
Rapid City has really kept their downtown area in good shape. Here a former fire station is now a brewery and pub. Along I-90 approaching Rapid City from the east are billboards advertising this business. What made the signs remarkable were actual out-of-service fire trucks alongside the sign.
On every intersection are four statues of former United States presidents. Here Harry Truman holds up the Chicago Tribune in 1948 when the newspaper reported prematurely that Thomas Dewey had won the election. Since Sue and I both read the Tribune in our youth in the Chicago area, we had to take this photo.
The Alex Johnson Hotel shows the good condition of the area.
I thought that the interior lobby of the hotel would be interesting, so I explored it and found out that it was special. Note the seated gentleman.
Details of the lobby of the hotel with a Native American theme.
I sat down next to this gentleman and we began to converse. He is a Native American born in Canada and now lives for the past in the Rapid City area. He had just traveled from Montana by bus and was waiting for a friend to pick him up. He said that his family moved to Canada in about 1876 when General Custer was moving about the area and that his family was "tired of running".
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