Southwest Quartzsite az .show time.

[jimmini]

Judge Lacy's House.
Partially covered on the south side of the building by dirt from the elevated roadway,the Lacy house was built about 1930.Judge Lacy served as Justice of the Peace in Quartzsite from 1933 through 1938.Judge Lacy died in 1941,and the building has served many uses since then.

The temp.today should be about 76F and sunny

[jimmini]

THE CAMEL STOP AUTO REPAIR.

There are three building at this site,the old filling station,the front building just east of the station and the house in the rear.The building in front has been a store,a restaurant and the town post office.In 1946 the woodsens sold the site to Ira "Slim" and Beulah Salladay.
Slim was sent to prison for some kind of threat to or about President Trumans's daughter Margaret's recital.
ONLY in Q could this kind of history be made.

Weather today 77F Mostly Cloudy.

[utahredrock]

Wow . . . I don't have time to read this whole thread, wish I saw it earlier.

I am a proud full-timer of almost two years now. I am also a vendor at Tyson Wells H-19 through this Sunday 1/25.

Please stop by, I am surrounded by owners of SOBs!

; )

Rich Luhr will be visiting this weekend too.

Jim
928.300.8010 cell
Look at my web site for photos of my booth and Q. utahredrock.com

[jimmini]

The Tysons Well Museum is a must see in Quartzsite.
They also sell 2 little books Quartzsite AZ No Ordinary Place $3.75 and
Stone Cabins and other excuses for exploring the desert backroads around Quartzsite .50C.
It is well worth the time and it is free.But they do take donations.

[jimmini]

The El Camino Real unit from California is having a rally with about 20 trailer right now at Rice Ranch east of US 95 on the north side of Kuehn St.

See tread "ANY AIRSTREAMERS IN QUARTZSITE."

[jimmini]

A short distance south of Quartzsite (.4 miles west of my campsite)you will find what remains of another stone cabin.This cabin has a cement floor (Dated 1954),a fireplace and a small room inside.It even had water into the cabin.
Outside the cabin there are two cooking areas.
We were told this was Bob Lambeth's cabin.
He died in the 1980's in a shootout over a mining claim dispute,one of Quartsite's more infamous moments.

[HankandLois]

Thanks for telling my trailer's godmother, Pam hello. She said she enjoyed meeting the airstreamers.

/Lois

[eubank]

Jimmini, you keep on showing us nice pics of buildings that you've seen in/around Q, but what we really want to see is pics of all the gold you've dug out of those hills!

Lynn

[jimmini]

Originally Posted by eubank

Jimmini, you keep on showing us nice pics of buildings that you've seen in/around Q, but what we really want to see is pics of all the gold you've dug out of those hills!

Lynn

I do have a secret Mine would you like to invest in it?
During the first few years of the 1900's miners scratched about the hill east and west of town.Only about $45,000 worth of ore was taken from the area during the first 30 years of the 1900's
Promotors in San Francisco selling stock in Quartzsite mines did better than the miners.

[jimmini]

Here is the place to learn Quartzsite history and find out where to go to see some of the old sites in the Quartzsite area.
They have all the info and books to make you Quartzsite smart.Look at me!
They have lots of old photos of how it was back in the olden day's.

[jimmini]

These two stone cabin were built by Joseph Cone,( photo 1&2)one of Quartzsite's more colorful characters.He occupied them until the 1960's when he died at age 75.
On the smaller cabin see how the area around the doors and windows have been decorated with white quartz stones.This is the cabin he lived in.The larger cabin was his work shop.It has a dirt floor and the wall are rough and unfinished on the inside.In his shop he turned Ironwood on a lathe to make lovely bowls and lamp stands.You can see examples of his wood work and learn more about him at the Quartzsite museum.

Photo 3 is how you boondock now day's in Quartzsite when you can not build a stone cabin and do not have a Airstream

WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy and 70F.

[dogpound]

Jimmini;

Do you mean to tell us that the promoters in San Francisco in early 1900's was doing the same as some of the investment bankers have been doing recently in New York and Washington. Who would ever thought that??

Snow is melting. Woke up to a gentle rain this morning and boy does it get rid of snow fast. All we have to do now is contend with the muddddd!!

See you in Cottonwood.

Bob and Lou
4CU/CAC
WBCCI # 10105
AIR # 28748

[jimmini]

Today Mike and I stopped by the El Camino Real rally this afternoon and had a beer and talked to some of the nice folks from California.
Then on the way back to our camps we found 3 more Airstreamers just checking in.Looks like another nice group of folks.

[ScrapIrony-2]

Jim also drove us out to a rock wall just past the middle of nowhere, then a bit further past that to a rock-walled cabin...located in a BOX(see, I DID remember, Jim) canyon, with some evidence of what must have been the worst of miserable mining traces. Then, back to and through Q-town to the Lead Well...oldest, still-operating, air-driven, water-pump windmill out here...doesn't appear to pump out much water into the rock-walled cistern, but I wasn't thirsty, and knew I was going back to a full freshwater tank. The return, via a loop(also dirt road) was marked as accessible to passenger vehicles...I would suggest that if you want to take this scenic drive, your passenger vehicle be high-clearance...maybe 4WD...and that you make the loop from in town and cut back over to HWY 95...
The rest of the story has already been posted by Jim. I'm gonna go burn some wood...have a "manly" fire, as a friend of mine put it, last year...

[ScrapIrony-2]

OOPS!!! Forgot to mention, we drove by a desert golf course...flags stuck in the middle of a 10 foot circle drawn with a stick...had cast-off chairs of a variety scattered down the course(airline seats, recliners, wooden benches)...L O N G course, sometimes on both sides of the dirt road...I get a STRONG feeling that the Third Quartzsite rally will have the First Invitational Golf Tournament...

[jimmini]

Yesterday Mike and I made this trip into the hills east of Quartzsite.
Photo 1 is the so-called Spanish wall it is one of Quartzsite's mysteries.There are many theories as to who built it,when and why.Notice the size of the stones and how carfully they were fit together.Think about the labor that it took to construct it out here in the desert.
Photo 2, 3 and 4 An old stone cabin found just up the road from the Spanish wall with a greate view of Quartzsite from the window.Note the yellow mining claim posted.
Photo 5.Lead well this is one of the oldest wells in the Quartzsite area,and is still in operation today,pumping water for cattle and wildlife.It is one of Scott's wells an early Q pioneer( You can see a picture of him and his family in the Q Museum).Note the old rock tank constructed out of rock and cement.

Weather today 71F Mostly sunny.

[jimmini]

Mike and I made the treck up into Palm Canyon AZ today.Not bad for two old folks.It is a hard and steep trail and long for being ONLY 1/2 Mile.
Palm trees growing in a canyon can be found in a number of places in the California desert,but this is the only place in Arizona where you will find them.
Photo 1 looking up to where we are going to find the Palm trees.
Photo 2 & 3 THE PALM TREES.
Photo 4 looking out of Palm Canyon to where we came from.

[Airstream25]

Jimmin,
I have been enjoying your photos, thank for posting them.
Is it possible to post a larger size? It is hard to see much detail of the palms for example (and others).

[jimmini]

Originally Posted by Airstream25

Jimmin,
I have been enjoying your photos, thank for posting them.
Is it possible to post a larger size? It is hard to see much detail of the palms for example (and others).

Not that I know of.
But you can click on the photo and it will make it larger.

[ScrapIrony-2]

I have close-ups, but don't know(ok, remember ) how to post them...am not trying very hard, as yet, as I'm enjoying where I am to take them...ROUGH(washboard) road to get to where we were today, but worth the trip, until I try to get out of bed, tomorrow...
AMAZING country...so much that seeing it doesn't do the photos credit...even if they could be panoramic...
Interesting phenomena(or, maybe just an observation), is that 'Teddy Bear"(gotcha cacti) grows in a defined elevation area...they're there, and then they ain't...
The El Camino Real Unit is a bunch of friendly folks...felt pretty darned comfortable at this afternoon's Happy Hour...TTQ seemed to cause a bit of...well...amused disenvolvement in further conversation, but a LOT of them are interested in the Balloon Fest, and a couple want to "Join UP" as associates...Theft from other units continues, and the entry price is a real come-on...THANKS, MILO, for wording it correctly.
WE ARE OUT OF FLAMINGOS(-OES?)...WILL PUT IN THE NEXT ORDER THIS COMING WEEK.
Still a few THOUSAND places to park out here...we're waitin'...