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In 2016 Jim and I had gone to Iowa to meet up with an online friend and gift her a camera that we were no longer using. We spent the night at her delightful B&B and she prepared an elegant meal for us and we had a great visit.
Because we were in Iowa and had never seen the bridges, the next day we drove down to see The Bridges of Madison County, that were made famous by the 1995 Meryl Streep/Clint Eastwood movie.
We went into the town of Winterset and ate lunch at the café across the street from the courthouse where a scene from the movie had been filmed. It was pointed out which stool at the lunch counter Clint Eastwood had sat on during the movie, so of course I had to sit there, too!
While we were there we learned that Winterset was the birthplace of John Wayne and there was a new museum.
It's a very small new museum and they were charging $15 a piece for admission. The 20-minute long film that was supposed to start the tour was not available because the projector was broken. So we walked through the one room collection that only contained a few movie posters and a couple of items from various movies that he had been in.
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These items were from the 1969 movie True Grit in which John Wayne wore this eyepatch when he played U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn.
It was fun to see the Pontiac Grand Safari Station Wagon that was owned and driven by John Wayne. ... The car was modified to raise the roof so the actor could enter and exit the vehicle without having to remove his cowboy hat. The tour was also supposed to allow admission into the house that he had been born in, but they were refinishing the floors in the house and it was closed.
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