Our first look at OATMAN! The burros are descendants of the burros the miners left behind. When the gold mines played out, the miners turned the burros into the hills around Oatman.
Post Office
CANDY SHOPPE
At the Candy Shoppe.
"Cowboy Scott Who Scowls a Lot"
"Pretty Pat in her Fancy Hat" (ha-ha)
These burros are having a snack on the boardwalk! People feed them carrots and apples from home but can also buy alfalfa cubes.
More burros...
Still more... We estimate we saw 30 to 40 burros right in town. Bullhead City is 18 miles away and they have wild burro signs along the roads and highways.
OATMAN HOTEL
The walls of the bar and restaurant are covered in dollar bills!
The community stages gunfights throughout the day right outside the restaurant.
Always have an ice cream sundae after winning a gunfight! Good guys always win and then they get ice cream WITH sprinkles!
Our pick-up parked in front of the Oatman Restaurant and Bar. The hotel is the oldest two-story adobe building in Mohave County.
Scott and a friendly burro.
Put a coin in the machine and this miner will tell your fortune!
Cigar store Indian outside the Olive Oatman Saloon.
Surprise! Do you know who's visiting Oatman the same day we are? Yes, it's an Oakridge Boy! William Lee Golden, to be exact. The group is playing at the Riverside Resort Casino in Laughlin for a week.
He continues down the street, feeding burros, and going unrecognized.
This building was used in the filming of the movie, "How the West Was Won." Oatman has been the setting of several westerns.
The mine now houses a mining museum.
Telephone wire insulators.
Old tractor
No comments:
Post a Comment