Mao and Stalin greet us from the small town of Lindsborg, Kansas- along with a Sun City bar and a lizard

Earlier I had some of my summer pictures disappear because I loaded them wrong. I am reloading some pictures I managed to save. Here is a paragraph of notes I posted:
By Steve Otto

"My friends from Spain, Mark Davis and Pedro Esbrit, along with my wife Cam Gentry and I, have been travelling around our home state of Kansas (except Pedro who has never lived here) viewing the sites and small towns. We went to the town of in Lindsborg, KS, which is a small Swedish community. We stopped for lunch at the Swedish Crown Restaurant, on the main street of that town. While we were having lunch I noticed they have small carved statues of famous people, such as past US presidents and famous foreign leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Mao Zedong (毛泽东) and Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин/ იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი)." 

And here are some pictures I took this summer:

This is Buster's in Sun City Kansas. The town is small and Busters is about the only real business left in the town. This is a picture of Busters which is on the main street of the town.

Here are some pictures from the inside of Buster's:

Then:

I took a picture of this lizard, a skink, near Coronado Heights,  KS. 

Here's Charles de Gaulle.

Here is Mao.

And Stalin.

This photo of Lindsborg, with the restaurant, was taken by Mark Davis. 

This is a bar that Carrie Nation attacked with her hatchet. Inside it looks like any other neighborhood bar accept that it has a table top for one of the bars that has hatchet marks on it. 

I was quite surprised to see Mao and Stalin in that restaurant in Lindsborg, Kansas, as a whole, is a very conservative and reactionary state.[1] Those who call themselves socialists are growing in number, here in Kansas. There are a handful of Marxist-Leninists in the state. I just had to take some pictures of Mao, Stalin and de Gaulle.

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[1] With the exception of a few small towns such a Lawrence, KS which is a very liberal town. Those who call themselves socialists are growing in number, here in Kansas. There are a handful of Marxist-Leninists in the state. I just had to take some pictures of Mao, Stalin and de Gaulle.