Leonland - Leon Barnard
Chapter 4 > Maquoketa, IA
I always go places for work where the land is cheap. This time I ended up in Maquoketa, Iowa, about half-way between Dubuque and Davenport. Pretty much in the middle of the middle of nowhere. It was very quaint though and it really grew on me. I kind of missed it after I left.
My hotel room. Much homier than a Holiday Inn. All the rooms were decorated differently.
My hotel, the Decker House, a very friendly, family-run place with a nice restaurant inside. The kind of place where the people know you by name and vice-versa.
A typical scene, a tractor driving down Main Street.
The other end of Main Street on a dreary March morning.
The barren Midwest in winter.
A partial view of the parking lot of the building I was working at.
Posted by Leon on March 30, 2002 11:05 PM [Top of page]
Comments
oo this is cool, I work in the restaurant at the Decker Hotel, and was trying to find some pictures of it, and came across your website. I'm a sophmore in highschool by the way. I enjoyed reading the part about how Maquoketa is in the middle, of the middle of nowhere. haha, I say that all the time. I'm just wondering why you came to Maquoketa, of all places. I see from your other stories, that you were going to places like New York and other big cities, so it must have been a really big difference for you. Well I enjoyed browsing through your website, it's pretty cool that you kept track of all of that and made a website of it.
Posted by Nikko Francois on November 23, 2006 07:36 PM
Thanks for your post. At the time, I was living in NYC, but working for a company that provided products for distribution centers, which are usually located in small towns. I was in Maquoketa to install our products at the Family Dollar distribution center.
Posted by Leon on November 27, 2006 11:57 AM
Please post more photos of houses..i use to live there and i really miss it....
Posted by Marcy Jo Delarm on July 23, 2007 06:48 PM