Creating Buildings from Photos for Model Train Villages

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Bob Lanning and I’m here to tell you about we’re making model villages. This building here which was a Super Value store back in the 50’s was done also by taking photographs and the sign was actually taken from period photographs of that same building. It now has new uses today. And next to that, is the old theater which was the Realto and that was a working theater until about 1998 when it was burned down. It is now a restaurant, we have showing a movie that was back in 1955 with Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Scott. Next to that was a commercial building which I really don’t know what it represented then. It says Coca Cola so it must have been a drugstore. And on the corner is the old Cottonwood Hotel, which is still a hotel today with gift shops below. And over on the, across the corner was a drugstore, which was used in that movie Guns of Fury. You see Burt Lancaster coming out of that same building and that still looks that same way today except mostly they are antique stores and gift shops and all the other buildings down there were taken from trade photographs to get the signs made and look accurate. And at the end of the block was the old Ford dealership here and now that was used by the water company. "