By Ken Drenten

One of the photos featured on the new Videos page in Dusty Tires is a rusty old sign that once stood along I-70 facing west near Etna. The sign has since disappeared. (Credit: Ken Drenten)

Dusty Tires’ new Videos page features slideshows of literally dozens of photos of barns, mills, covered bridges, signs, drive-in restaurants, diners and other interesting places in Ohio.

The pictures in these videos are all places that I’ve photographed over the years, since prior to 2000 up to just recently. I started out photographing barns and covered bridges, and that entryway led me to lighthouses, neon signs and a whole lot more that was out there “in the wild” waiting to be captured by my camera.

I started out using a 1980s vintage Canon AE-1 Program SLR camera that used 35-millimeter film and progressed to a Nikon D-50 digital camera in 2005. Now I admit that I usually use the camera on my iPhone.

So far, videos on the page are “Barns of Ohio,” “Mills of Ohio,” “Stores & More,” “Drive-Ins & Ice Cream Shops,” “Trains, Roads, Bridges & Canals, etc.” “Signs, Signs, Signs,” and “More Signs.”

There’s also two short videos — one of the sights and sounds of Lake Erie washing over the rocks at Marblehead Peninsula, and another of a short drive east on State Route 2 from Vermilion along Lake Erie. Marblehead and Vermilion are favorite “happy places” of mine at Lake Erie, and it’s nice to go back to both places often, at least in video form.

I will add more video content as I am able, so hopefully this is just the start, because I still have a lengthy list of places I’d like to record and photograph all over Ohio.

Ken Drenten is creator and manager of Dusty-Tires.com, a travel blog for out-of-the-ordinary places in Ohio.

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