Monday, April 23, 2012

Tombstone





View from hotel, Tombstone.
Hotel signage. Apparently the rules are strictly enforced.

If only half the stuff they tell about this place is true, it is still unbelievable

A few years ago in Santa fe we saw a fascinating museum exhibit on the surprising parts played by Jewish pioneers and cowboys. Not much mention of them in tombstone but there is a modern monument here in Boot Hill.

Tombstone Public Transport


This particular office carried its own term limits, evident from the grave markers on Boot Hill 
A coroner's report on an outlaw dead by hanging.
A reconstruction of Tombstone's system for rehabilitating outlaws. The recitivism rate was near zero.
OK, we admit it. We went to the show. Corny, hokey, dubious authenticity, sure. So you want to make something of it? You know where to find us. — at O.K. Corral.

Interior of the Birdcage Theater. The name derives from the private boxes in the upper story, where the ladies entertained their gentleman clients.
The original Faro table of Doc Holiday. — at Birdcage Theater
Black Mariah, for that last one-way ride to Boot Hill

Cactus with an attitude

"Bettie & cousin Jan. taken at the historic Hacienda Hotel in Tucson. Hotel of the golden age Hollywood stars while shooting movies in Arizona."



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