https://neverquitelost.com/2026/01/07/the-oatman-honeymoon-that-never-was/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/saint_johns_methodist_episcopal_church_kingman_arizona_cropped-1.jpgSaint_John's_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Kingman,_Arizona_(cropped)https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/saint_johns_methodist_episcopal_church_kingman_arizona_cropped.jpgSt John's Methodist Church in Kingman, not the Public Defender's Office. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/3420963_original.jpgBizarrely, nothing on this postcard is true!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/112_9006.jpgThe Oatman Hotel.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gable-6.jpgA board which hangs in the Oatman Motel - note the incorrect date of the marriage. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gable-4.jpgThe happy newly-weds.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gable-5.jpgClark Gable and Carole Lombard in Los Angeles, just hours after their marriage.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gable-3.jpgThe pink nightgown that Lombard would never have worn. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gable-2.jpgThe so-called honeymoon suite.2026-03-24T11:23:44+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/04/25/the-courage-that-failed/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/10.jpg10The interior of an abandoned apartment in the 'fort'.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/9.jpg9The tower is boarded up but still in good order.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/8.jpg8Pancakes, coffee, tacos - now all off the menu.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/7.jpg7The sign with its cheery F Troop cartoons and disregard for copyright!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/6.jpg6Once part of the complex and then converted into living accommodation.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/5.jpg5Latterday Houck's tank.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/4.jpg4The cheery children's attraction has a surprisingly forbidding appearance.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3.jpg3One side of the sign remains intact.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2.jpg2This would have originally had a windmill rather than the sign, but there's no proof it was ever erected.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1.jpg1The sun goes down over Fort Courage.2026-02-21T13:20:11+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2026/02/02/goodbye-to-the-hi-line/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl3-1.jpghl3https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl20.jpghl20https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl18.jpghl18https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl17.jpghl17https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl16.jpghl16https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl15.jpghl15https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl14.jpghl14https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl13.jpghl13https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl12.jpghl12https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hl11.jpghl112026-02-18T13:54:15+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2026/01/25/murder-on-route-66-alline-and-william-b-cole/2026-01-26T16:04:42+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/12/28/behind-the-names-on-the-texola-stone-part-five/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/screenshot-2025-11-19-at-16-33-26-photo.pngThe Seniors of 1938. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/grover-thomas.jpgGrover Thomas, a man who named his twin sons Okla and Homa!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/johnnie.jpgJohnnie McSpadden at the time of her graduation.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/johnnie-horace.jpgJohnnie's second husband Horace, with whom she had a son, Kenneth. Horace died suddenly when Kenneth was two years old. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/johnnie-boys.jpgJohnnie with her sons, Garon on the right and Kenneth on the left. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/johnnie-bernard.jpgJohnnie with her first husband, Bernard Burford, who was killed when his Liberator crashed in New Mexico. Johnnie was widowed at 25 with a one-year-old son. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/herbert.jpgOpal Hammons and Laverne Avant who were killed alongside Herbert Copeland. 2025-12-31T21:28:35+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/12/27/behind-the-names-on-the-texola-stone-part-four/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/screenshot-2025-12-17-at-17-41-31-james-minnie-powers-sue-stewarts-brother-sister-in-law.pngJimmie's parents, James and Minnie Powers.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ruby-1.jpgRuby Bartlett at the time of her graduation.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/venice.jpgVenice Slosshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ruby-3.jpgRuby and her husband GB Sloss who graduated from Texola High School in 1939.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ruby-2.jpgRuby Bartletthttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/jimmie.jpgJimmie Powershttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/lois-3.jpgLois Wigley2025-12-27T12:51:10+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/12/20/behind-the-names-on-the-texola-stone/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/junior-hass-1.jpgHugh 'Junior' Hass in 1938.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/junior-hass-2.jpgJunior Hass who made his career as a pilot. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/agnes.jpgAgnes Ruddhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/img_6453.jpgThe Texola jail.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/img_6448.jpgThe 'Seniors 38' stone outside the one-room jail in Texola.2025-12-24T12:48:33+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/12/22/behind-the-names-on-the-texola-stone-part-two/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/myrtke-dana-rose.jpgAustin's parents, Myrtle and Dana Rose.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/austin-3.jpgAustin in the 1950s.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/austin-2.jpgAustin Rose at his graduation. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/austin-1.jpgThis was a Baptist revival held in Texola under the supervision of Reverend Billy Sunday. Anna Mae Rose is being baptised; behind her looking at their father, Dana Elwood Rose, who is crying, is Austin. 2025-12-24T14:51:17+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/12/24/behind-the-names-on-the-texola-stone-part-three/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2541-e-eubanks-jack.jpgThe little house at 2541 E Eubank that Jack and Lottie bought when they moved to Oklahoma City. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/jack.jpgJack at his graduationhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/george-1.jpgThe stone of the complicated family of George Blair. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/nelms-farm.jpgThe farm where Doris grew up and where her fatherr Otis was born and died. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/doris-1.jpgDoris Nelms2025-12-30T18:15:53+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/10/21/the-man-who-walked-to-glenrio/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/stellanoey.jpgJohn Heardon, a remarkable man.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1402.jpgThe Little Juarez Cafe (also known as the Brownlee Diner) rallied around to feed the stranded bus passengers. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1363.jpgThe diner (the place was built to resemble a Valentine Diner) and the idea of steaming hot coffee kept John Hearon going during his trek.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/6e1c06077dbeb8f2a452e712b7e678b3.jpgOhio company Flxible built just 208 Vista-Liners between 1954 and 1958. Continentral Trailways purchased 126 of them and it was one of these buses John Heardon was driving on the Amarillo-Tucumcari run.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1378.jpgThe Brownlee gas station where John Heardon was taken when he reached Glenrio.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/920x920.jpg920x9202026-01-25T22:29:59+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2025/07/24/death-at-a-sapulpa-cafe/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sap-2.jpgDespite the special dinner steak, the Chieftain never recovered.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sap-3.jpgAn advert for staff for the new Villa Tacos.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sap-1.jpgIn April 1961, the Chieftain Cafe closed for good.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/juanita.jpgJuanita Anderson, Eudell's aunt and co-owner of the cafe.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/eudell.jpgEudell Walter Whitmire.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/eudell-angleton.jpgWhen Eudell moved to Sapulpa, Vivian and the children stayed at their home in Angleton, Texas.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/eudell-tulsa.jpgThe house on 36th Street, Tulsa, that Eudell shared with his aunt and uncle. It was demolished some years ago. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/eduell-2.jpgEudell and Vivian's wedding.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/aldridge-ca.jpgLawrence and Lola lived in this apartment above a garage in Riverside, California.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/aldridge3.jpgLawrence Aldridge photographed at his call up. He lasted just two months in the Army. 2025-07-26T17:16:04+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/11/25/murder-on-main-street-in-alanreed/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/9.jpgRoy Tipton's gravestone.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/8.jpgAlthough the gravestone reads November 11, Huntsville prison recorded his death as three days earlier.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/6.jpgA plain plaque marks young Joe Hayes' grave.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/7.jpgVallie Clodfelter in later years.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/5.jpgRobe Clodfelter's gravestone gives no indication of the circumstances of his death.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/4.jpgThe Clodfelter family. Tobe is in the centre, flanked by his parents Newton and Mary and his six sisters. It's likely this photo was taken around 1894 or '95 when Tobe was about 9. One of the sisters, Lulu (on far left) would die in 1901 at the age of 16 while another, Mildred ('Birdie') was born in 1897.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/3.jpgThe very young and beautiful Vallie Agee, soon to be Mrs Clodfelter.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2.jpgTobe Clodfelter's garage in Alanreed.Tobe Clodfelter's garage in Alanreed.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1.jpgFew people know the story behind this striking gravestone in Alanreed's cemetery.2024-12-03T16:01:47+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/06/07/the-enduring-myth-of-hotel-el-rancho/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-end.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-8.jpgRANCHO 8https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-7.jpgDavid Wark Griffith, legendary movie director, but no relation to RE...https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-6.jpgEl Rancho's lobby today.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-3.jpgThe interior of Hotel El Rancho in the 1940s, still instantly recognisable today.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-4.jpgRupert Earl Griffith, movie theatre mogul but no relation to DW.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-1.jpgHotel El Rancho as it looked when it opened in 1936. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rancho-2.jpgRE was very keen on ranch life and even donated a large piece in Belton, Texas, so that under-privileged boys could experience life on a ranch.2025-08-06T17:32:06+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/09/14/the-missing-treasure-of-texola/2024-09-16T16:38:44+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/08/13/the-lothario-of-lenwood/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/d0c09aeac314ca3f95719e70f259afdc.jpgThe Eagle Box and Manufacturing Co's factory from which Christian Duin disappeared one morning in 1908.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/radio-auto-camp.jpgThe Radio Auto Camp, Lenwood near Barstow.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/desert_dispatch_1935_05_02_2.jpgThis advert appeared in 1935 while Mr Flowers and his uncle were leasing the camp, but clearly Cecilia made sure her name appeared as proprietor.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/los_angeles_evening_post_record_1924_02_06_12.jpgAn advert announcing the new town of Lenwood on the 'Ocean-to-ocean' Highway in 1924.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/daily_news_1923_10_20_22.jpg'Any system of raising poultry you want'!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/302053261_2187091711452038_4890421233301223475_n.jpgCaptured by Frashers Fotos, this photo shows that the Radio Auto Camp not only had cabins and a cafe, but a restaurant and beer garden.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/301773483_2187091354785407_6180774427910927300_n.jpgThis photo shows the garage, campground office and gas station.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4379de15-1427-4139-bf13-f9ac322e0d60.jpgChristian Duin, the man who wooed and wed at least five women. 2024-08-14T10:58:29+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/05/27/an-update-on-the-minnetonka-trading-post/2025-06-23T18:24:43+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2024/05/25/the-woman-who-loved-too-much/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wills-1-2.jpgwills-1-22024-05-28T14:08:37+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2023/12/20/the-man-who-chained-himself-to-his-car/2023-12-26T02:58:36+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2023/12/11/the-last-of-bard/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img_0833-1.jpgimg_0833-1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bard-2-1.jpgbard-2-1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img_4042-1.jpgimg_4042-1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/mami-1975-1.jpgmami-1975-1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/clyde.jpgclydehttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/327186192_907768580422180_7289432617928618816_n-1.jpg327186192_907768580422180_7289432617928618816_n-12023-12-18T18:47:37+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/06/17/the-glenrio-pontiac/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_0747.jpgIMG_0747https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_0773.jpgThe Pontiac Catalina in front of Joe Brownlee's old Texaco gas station with, to the right, the Brownlee Diner which became the Little Juarez Diner. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/az1-177.jpgDespite sitting for 40 years, the Pontiac still looks like the car Larry loved.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/az1-183.jpgLarry Travis's Pontiac Catalina. 2023-11-10T15:13:16+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2023/06/20/a-drowning-on-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/screenshot-2023-06-19-at-18-16-43-ancestry.com-u.s.-school-yearbooks-1900-2016.pngWinslow High School where Leorena was both a pupil and teacher. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/screenshot-2023-06-19-at-18-22-37-ancestry.com-u.s.-school-yearbooks-1900-2016.pngLeorena's entry in the 1916 'Wolsniwanozira', the Yearbook for Winslow High School.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4.jpgStriking a winsome pose.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cottonwood-wash.jpgThe Cottonwood Wash and bridge today. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/3.jpgApublicity photo for what many described as 'an auburn-haired, blue-eyed beauty'.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1.pngThis photo, with her beautiful smile, seems to most sum up Leorena Shipley. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2.jpgOne of Norma Deane's earliest publicity shots.2023-06-24T23:55:52+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2023/05/22/a-small-tragedy-in-truxton/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trus-2.pngGuy and Esther in the store in 1979. [Photo by the Arizona Republic]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trus-1.jpgBoarded up and ignored by travellers.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trux-6.jpgAll that remains of the Truxton grocery store.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trus-8.jpgAll that remains in the concrete pad. The store was demolished last year. 2026-01-08T00:35:45+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/05/22/the-littles-of-hinton-junction/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h7.jpgh7Leon and Ann start married life. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h6.jpgh6The gas station is falling down these days, but you can still see the old shelving and how it was back in the day.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h5.jpgh5This centre section is all that remains of the gas station and cafe. There would have been a clock in the hole in the centre roofline, while the EAT sign was lost many years ago.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h3.jpgIn his 50s, foreseeing the end of Route 66 and his business, Leon retrained as a US Postmaster,https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h4.jpgLeon (standing) oversees the construction of his new service station.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/h2.jpgh2In its prime, Hinton Junction could sell you gasoline, a meal, a night's sleep and even a bus ticket.2023-01-16T10:00:35+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2022/07/14/all-change-at-yucca/2022-12-24T17:36:47+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2022/06/29/the-axe-murderer-of-tucumcari/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kappel-3.jpgGus Adolph Kappelhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kappel-7.jpgJohn Frederick Kappel whose bound body was found in a Sayre lake in an unsolved homicide. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kappel-6.jpgGovernor Erwin L Mechem who commuted Adolph Kappel's 90-99 sentence to 70 years. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kappel-4.jpgThe lower walls are all that remains of the Vorenberg Hotel after a fire in the 1970s. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kappel-2.jpgThe Vorenberg Hotel. The Home Cafe where Bertha Kappel was employed can be seen at the right. 2022-07-04T09:21:35+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2022/06/02/the-final-mystery-of-eds-camp/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dscn9756.jpgDSCN9756https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ed.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dscn9763.jpgEd's Camp is well posted and looked after by the neighbours, so much of the contents have survived. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dscn9762.jpgIn front of Ed's Camp once stood the gas pumps and a saguaro cactus.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dscn9758.jpgOne of the surviving cabins. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cool-springs-10.jpgThese cabins were the height of luxury at Ed's Camp!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cool-springs-8.jpgThe Kactus Kafe was the first building that Ed put up on the site. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cool-springs-6.jpgEd's Camp looks very much as it did when he passed away well over 40 years ago. That's because it is clearly out of bounds, please respect that. 2025-08-07T18:33:59+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2022/05/28/the-rapid-decline-of-the-minnetonka/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pxl_20240510_170952706.mp_.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pxl_20240429_211849900.mp_.jpgPXL_20240429_211849900.MPhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/loopnet-2010.jpgThe Minnetonka when it was up for sale in 2010. Back there it would have taken little work to open the doors again. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_0860.jpgIMG_0860https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/24.jpgPhillip and Louise Hersh at Two Guns. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/14.jpgThe petrified wood wall.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/12a.jpgOne of the ornamental grilles, almost hanging in midair. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/12.jpg12In its life, the Minnetonka has been trading post, post office, feed store, curio shop and bar. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/11.jpgThe rear of the trading post. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/10.jpg102024-05-26T16:36:24+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/20/santa-claus-is-comin-to-town/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/674b1a96f9a5094e8f5fc34aea0d4b46.jpg674b1a96f9a5094e8f5fc34aea0d4b46IN THE 1940S, THIS GIANT BILLBOARD ENTICED VISITORS AS THEY PASSED OVER THE HOOVER DAMhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/santa-claus-1940.jpgsanta claus 1940SANTA CLAUS GAS STATION IN 1940 WITH CINDERELLA'S DOLLS HOUSE IN THE BACKGROUNDhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/santaclausarizona2.jpgSantaClausArizona2CINDERELLA'S DOLLS HOUSE IS LONG GONEhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10838139_846958345372001_2150765534970206439_o.jpg10838139_846958345372001_2150765534970206439_oTHE DERELICT RESTAURANThttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11008799_846958332038669_847893804093233192_o.jpg11008799_846958332038669_847893804093233192_oFORMER TEXACO GAS STATIONhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11024754_846958335372002_8653835530928621909_o.jpg11024754_846958335372002_8653835530928621909_oBOARDED UP CHRISTMAS TREE INNhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10987480_846958348705334_1587210427171755057_o.jpg10987480_846958348705334_1587210427171755057_oTHE OLD GAS STATIONhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/54ebde01290ce_-_little-pig-house-2-lgn.jpg54ebde01290ce_-_little-pig-house-2-lgnTHE HOUSE OF THE THIRD LITTLE PIG AT ITS PRIMEhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11046866_846958342038668_3716513709138600688_o.jpg11046866_846958342038668_3716513709138600688_oOUT OF FUELhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11025150_846958325372003_5042151662560387084_n.jpg11025150_846958325372003_5042151662560387084_nWISHING WELL2022-05-27T12:11:50+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/12/04/the-trading-atkinsons-of-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/img_1850.jpgIMG_1850THE REMAINS OF THE RATTLE SNAKE TRADING POST, BLUEWATER, NM, 2015https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/boxcanyon1.jpgboxcanyonLEROY ATKINSON'S BOX CANYON TRADING POST WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED IN A REALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 66 IN 1953https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cobragardens.pngcobragardensHERMAN ATKINSON'S COBRA GARDENS NEAR GRANTS. c 1952https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/herman1.pngherman1HERMAN ATKINSON, THE COBRA KING. 1953https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/nm083150.jpgNM083150JAKE ATKINSON'S RATTLE SNAKE TRADING POST, BLUEWATER, NM, IN ITS PRIMEhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/nm083155.jpgNM083155https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jake-atkinsons-state-line-trading-post-lupton.jpgJake Atkinson's State Line Trading Post Luptonhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/statleine.jpgstatleineJAKE ATKINSON'S FIRST TRADING POST IN LUPTON, ARIZONA, SHORTLY BEFORE HE MOVED TO BLUEWATERhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/boxcanyon.jpgboxcanyon2024-10-23T18:10:39+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2021/11/28/charley-diaz-man-of-grants/2022-06-14T01:52:49+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2020/10/29/the-man-who-invented-the-apache-death-cave/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/richardson.jpgGladwell Grady 'Toney' Richardson. Unreliable witness?https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/n294332.jpgOne of Gladwell Richardson's many works of fiction.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/img_0800.jpgMiller's zoo today.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gates.jpgThe Gates Hotel where Richardson killed Rabbi Lafee.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gates-2.jpgThe Gates Hotel today, renamed as the Fusion although basically unchanged on the exterior.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/death-caves.jpgLooking across toe the famous cave.Looking across to the famous cave.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/az040240.jpgA postcard of the Apache caves from the 1930s. Note no mention of death. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/az040160.jpgAZ040160https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/az039410.jpgA later postcard, also with no mention of any death caves.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/44da3840-6a58-40e3-aea6-f4e7894cfb63.jpgHarry 'Indian' Miller - unfairly blamed for the Apache Death Cave story?2023-02-17T22:48:31+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2020/02/28/the-lost-girl-of-ash-fork/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sally-tree.jpgThe tree under which 'Sally Valentine' was found on Valentine's Day, 1982.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sally-hankie.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-reconst.jpgIn 2016, Carl Koppelman produced this reconstruction of Sally Valentine. She was indeed described as a very pretty girl who would 'turn heads' by Patty Wilkins. And yet no-one has ever missed her.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-patty.jpgPatty Wilkins who was possibly the last person to see the victim alive at the Monte Carlo Truck Stop. [Photo courtesy of the Arizona Daily Sun]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-older.jpgMelody Cutlip after her return from the dead. [Photo by Kyle Danaceau]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-mstone.jpgShe lived twice as long as people thought, but still died so young.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-jeans.jpgMELODY JEANShttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-6.jpgMelody Cutlip before her disappearance in 1980. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-4.jpgThe artist's impression of the victim produced in 1982.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/melody-3.jpgSally Valentine's striped jumper was found near her body.2022-02-15T06:35:16+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2021/02/11/the-curious-case-of-the-moonlight-motel/2021-02-12T14:32:45+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2020/08/21/the-man-who-killed-the-best-of-houck/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/west-civinas.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/marylou.jpgMarylou should have been at home that day, her mother was in the hospital giving birth to twin daughters, But fatefully she decided to go to school.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/keeton1.jpgJim Keeton came from a local police family. The 27-year-old had been married for just ten months,https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/greenberg.jpgBertram Greenberg, serial rapist and sexual psychopath, was out on parole when he went on a spree that left four people dead.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/greenberg-dead.jpgAftermath in Gallup. Greenberg was shot down in a hail of bullets and trying to flee his car.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/connie.jpgA few months after his death, Officer Keeton's widow, Connie (centre), and family set up a scholarship fund in his memory. Today the Northern Arizona University still awards the James L Keeton Police Science Memorial scholarship.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/betty-and-dianne.jpgBetty beckstead (left) comforts Dianne Brown, the only survivor of that terrible night.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/beckstead.jpgDon Allen Beckstead, father of two young boys, had no idea the minor traffic stop he would make would end his life.2026-03-02T12:41:03+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2020/07/16/a-wild-honeymoon-on-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/screenshot_2020-07-16-51gdmihrmel-_ac_sy445_-jpg-jpeg-image-280-c397-445-pixels.pngBriefly escaping in 1940, Blake carjacked Ronald Anderson and had him drive him to the Hill Hotel in Omaha.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/york-reformatory.jpgYORK REFORMATORYThe Nebraska State Reformatory for Women in York would be Evelyn's home for https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/az002830.jpgThe State Inspection point as the Blakes would have seen it.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/az002400.jpgNorthern Arizona may have greeted the renegade honeymooners but it would soon regret that.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/66325441_331395814470829_8780032060724084736_n.jpgThe Cherry County Courthouse where the Blakes pled guilty in front of Judge Meyer. This is how it would have looked to the honeymooners; three years later it was remodelled and the tower removed.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/108975.jpgThe Gooch Mill in Lincoln, Nebraska, which Blake gave as his workplace on leaving the reformatory.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/25619.jpgThe Cherry County Courthouse where the Blakes pled guilty in front of Judge EL Meyer. This is how it would have looked to the honeymooners; three years later it was remodelled and the tower removed.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4ca64e4a5a20b.image_.jpgThe Nebraska Men's Reformatory where Donald Blake spent six years. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/blakes-head.jpgThe only photo thought to exist of Evelyn Mayer Blake and Donald Blake. 2020-07-16T20:12:03+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/09/20/the-hidden-side-of-hackberry/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1924-mohave-museum-of-history-arts.jpgBy the time this photo was taken in 1924, the school had been open for 7 years. Sadly, I don't know whether the teacher is the 'pleasant young Miss Jones'. Photo courtesy of the Mohave Museum of History and Artshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/116_0614.jpgThe bell still seems operational, but I decided not to try...https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/116_0612.jpgAn abandoned basketball hoop beside the school.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/116_0604.jpgWith its Mission-style architecture, the school was the grandest building in town. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/116_0601.jpgHackberry Elemtary School, still as if the children had just left for the day.2026-02-20T17:15:43+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2020/01/09/when-hawaii-came-to-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/48233603_1423150442.jpgRay's grave in St Helena Cemetery, marked only by the plot number. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-hopi-house.jpgThe Hopi House Trading Post. This is from an advert in 1955 although the couple may have separated by the time it appeared. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-and-ella-1952.jpgBy 1952, Ella was already jealous of Ray's career and his regular trips to Hawaii. This may have been the last time she accompanied him to the island.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-and-ella-1950.jpgOne of the few photos of Ella and the first in which she and Ray appeared together, taken in October 1950 in Honolulu.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-1944.jpgA dapper Ray Meany, returning from his time as an enlisted solder.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-1940.jpgBy 1940, Ray was overseeing thousands of pupils as the Director of the Honolulu Conservatory of Music in Oakland, California.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-1936.jpgRay during a radio recording in 1936. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ray-1932-1.jpgRay Meany in 1932. He may well have still been in the Merchant Marine at this point.2022-03-28T00:35:21+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/about/2022-11-21T15:28:11+00:00weekly0.6https://neverquitelost.com/2019/11/06/goodbye-desert-center/2024-09-30T12:34:36+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/12/16/a-counterfeit-story/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc-6.jpgarc 6Lyle Dean Melton (left) and Red Abbott. Probably not hardened counterfeiters...https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc2.jpgarc2The front of the Conoco station where the pumps would have once stood.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc1.jpgarc1The former Conoco station between Arcadia and Luther, Oklahoma.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc5.jpgarc5The fireplace at the rear of the store which would have been the only source of heat.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc4.jpgarc4On the windowsill someone has written, 'There was a dead body found here'. That is, it seems, true, although it was long after the place fell derelict. The victim was never identified.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/arc3.jpgarc3The window in the rear wall was, apparently, the entrance to the hidden room where $10 bills were printed.2025-02-19T17:57:32+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/02/mother-preston-and-the-ludlow-war/2019-09-14T09:12:00+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2019/05/27/the-little-orphans-of-route-66/2022-10-13T20:20:37+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/02/13/arrows-of-time/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0207.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThe decaying interior of the trading posthttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0227.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThe CAFE sign is untouched by grafitti, possibly because they couldn't reach...https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/11406313_934378933287990_9044643327867150532_o.jpg11406313_934378933287990_9044643327867150532_oThe well-stocked interior of the Twin Arrows Trading Posthttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0219.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThe rear of the trading post where there was living accommodationhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1955.jpg1955The Twin Arrows Trading Post in 1955 when the Troxells bought ithttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0258.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraShot straight to earthhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0229.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraStill distinctly a Valentine diner, the 65-year-old manufactured building has held up surprising well against the weather and vandalism, but is probably beyond savinghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0250.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThe pumps in the background would, I assume, have been for trucks rather than carshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0231.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThe exterior was repainted a few years ago, but that just provided a blank canvas for rattle canshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/112_0200.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraThis image is what brought me to Route 662025-10-13T23:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2019/02/10/miami-oklahomas-crumbling-treasure/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/will-rogers-turnpike-ok-entrance-vintage-postcard.jpgThe opening of the Will Rogers Turnpike would be the beginning of the end for the Riviera Courts.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/riv2.jpgOne wing of the Riviera Courts. The building to the right was the living quarters and office of the owners.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/riv-1.jpgThe motel had not only garage bays, but doors on those basy, too.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/img_8638.jpgStill looking very much as it did when it was built over 80 years ago, but the Riviera Courts is in bad shape.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ok008900.jpgThis stylized postcard seems to be the only image of the Riviera Courts. It dates to around 1951 or '52 when Mr and Mrs Adam Ried were the owners and operators.2019-02-10T14:56:42+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2019/01/31/return-to-berts-country-dancing/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0611.jpgimg_0611https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0608.jpgimg_0608https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0599.jpgimg_0599https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0595.jpgimg_0595https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0587.jpgimg_0587https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0580.jpgimg_0580https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0573.jpgimg_0573https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_0565.jpgimg_05652025-08-26T22:14:29+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/08/the-golden-days-of-the-techatticup-mine/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_9199.jpgOne of the original mine buildings.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_9201.jpgOne of the mine buildings full of stuff. This will be the outboard motor section.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_9350.jpgAll aboard for the Techatticup mine!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6657.jpgNelson's Landing today.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6668.jpgThe perfect touring package - circa 1948.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6678.jpgA film prop left over from 3000 Miles From Graceland, starring Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6696.jpgIMG_6696https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6722.jpgThey like trucks at the Techatticup Mine. Good, I like trucks, too.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6732.jpgNo fancy food options, soda and chips are about all that's available here.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_6794.jpgAn original mine tank, saved by the Werly family. 2018-12-04T09:06:31+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/03/02/the-world-famous-tagus-ranch/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/312939_282289188478122_1182521949_n.jpg312939_282289188478122_1182521949_nhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/p1050373.jpgP10503732025-02-23T04:15:29+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/11/18/an-extraordinary-murder-on-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/krentz.jpgJacob Nicklos 'Ray' Krentz2018-11-26T20:59:07+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/09/29/the-slow-death-of-the-ludlow-cafe/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/clipping_14077754.jpgVersions of this wanted ad would run regularly in the San Bernardino County Sun for almost 20 yearshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ludlow-cafe-001_1_orig.jpgThe Ludlow cafe in the late 1940s. The freestanding lettering at the front and the LUDLOW CAFE sign survived into the 1990s.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ludlow-2007.jpgThe Ludlow Cafe in 2007, boarded up and the signage gone, but still in reasonable shape.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ludlow-2008.jpgThis was October 2008, probably not long after its first fire.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ludlow-2010.jpg2010, the fire still evident, and the boarding falling away.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ludlow-2014.jpgSpring 2014, the last time I would see the Ludlow Cafe. It was open wide and graffiti artists had found it by now. 2023-10-31T14:28:15+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/10/31/the-thoreau-trading-post-mystery/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/k.jpgkhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/j.jpgjhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/i.jpgihttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/h.jpghhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/g.jpgghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f.jpgfhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/e.jpgehttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/d.jpgdhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/c.jpgchttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b.jpgb2025-01-05T04:43:50+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/10/29/goodbye-to-the-wayside-motel/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-4.jpgHere in its It'll Do Inn incarnation, the building in the middle is readily identifiable as the last surviving part of the Wayside Motel. [Photo from unknown source]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/waydise-1.jpgIf this did represent the original Grants Motor Lodge, the office and living accommodation building had yet to be built. [Postcard by very kind permission of Joe Sonderman and his splendid 66postcards.com web site]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside2.jpgIn more prosperous times, the motel would even advertise - this was in the Gallup Independent of 1959. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-8.jpgSoon the sun will go down over the Wayside Motel for the last time.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-7.jpgThe motel office. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-6.jpgThe rear of the building where the owners could sit on their hacienda-style balcony and gaze out over the railroad just feet away.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-5.jpgWell, for $12 a night, you'd want free cable and HBO!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wayside-3.jpgwayside 32023-06-02T20:47:19+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/07/02/the-death-of-lucille-hamons-boy/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wade.jpgJean Aragon behind bars following her trial. The photo was taken by Arizona Republic photographer Wade Cavanaugh who had also taken the image of Jean just after she had shot Carl.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_0492.jpgLucille and Carl Hamons, reunited in death, along with their only son.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/stone.jpgCarl Jr's headstone in the Masonic Cemetery in Hydro, Oklahoma.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/jean.jpgYetta Jean Aragon had shot her ex-husband just minutes before an Arizona Republic newspaper man took this photograph in the Double-N bar.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_0059.jpgCarl Jr was six years old when his parents bought the Provine Service Station and he would grow up here.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_0017.jpgCarl Jr was only six years old when his parents bought the Provine Service Station and he would grow up here.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/carl.jpgIn this photo by an Arizona reoublic photographer, Gila County Sheriff Jack Jones (left) and Coroner Clyde Shute bend over the body of Carl Hamons Jr. He was asleep on the bar stool when his ex-wife shot him nine times.2018-07-03T21:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/05/28/the-mystery-of-mystery-castle/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_02171.jpgIMG_0217https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_02141.jpgIMG_0214https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0295.jpgIMG_0295https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0291.jpgIMG_0291https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0284.jpgIMG_0284https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0271.jpgIMG_0271https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0256.jpgIMG_0256https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0251.jpgIMG_0251https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0241.jpgIMG_0241https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_0222.jpgIMG_02222022-06-27T11:03:17+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/04/08/charlie-lum-the-pride-of-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/kfc.jpgCharlie stands in front of his KFC store on Route 66. Photo (c) The Lum Family.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/jade-neon.jpg1961 and the Jade is a blaze of neon.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/9.jpg9https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/8.jpgThe interior of the Jade Restaurant today. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/7.jpgOne of Charlie's final ventures - he always loved running a bar and lounge. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/6.jpgCharlie Lum tells his chef, Hubert Woo, how to cook the Jade's famous Cantonese cuisine!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/4.jpgFine food and cocktails - this was the place to go in Kingman in the 1960s.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/3.jpgAlways involved in civic affairs, Charlie congratulates David Cunningham, coach of the Kingman Bulldogs, in 1961.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2.jpgThe Jade Restaurant as it is today.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1.jpg'China Jack' Lum with, on the right, Charlie, and on the left, Wong, in around 1920. Photo (c) The Lum Family2021-05-19T01:46:02+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/03/21/the-camels-of-arizona/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/105_0283.jpgHi Jolly's memorial in Quartzsite.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/120_4717.jpgHi Jolly and his bride, Gertrudis Serna. She refused to take him back after his decade-long disappearance to prospect.2018-03-21T19:27:35+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/06/12/sleep-in-a-wigwam/2018-03-16T14:06:52+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/03/03/a-body-in-arcadia/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mx_2.jpgMax Klettke awaiting trial.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/max.jpgMax Klettke at the time of his arrest.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/harry2.jpgharry2https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/harry.jpgHarry Riskin in the photo taken by a press reporter after his arrest.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/daily_dhronicle_de_kalb.jpgThere was a campaign for clemency for Klettke which failed. He had asked for a blindfold during his execution, but it slipped off.2018-04-05T09:46:35+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/02/27/monticello-school-and-the-forgotten-fire/2018-02-27T13:20:44+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/02/03/ballarat-and-the-mystery-power-wagon/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1175.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1163.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1161.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1160.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1146.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1141.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1137.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1130.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/105_1127.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camera2018-02-26T15:13:15+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2018/01/27/the-man-who-loved-cars-and-trains/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/13781989_298820013802013_8031890464441141004_n.jpgMembers of the Highway Horrors CC setting up Billy's memorial.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/13010864_250155158668499_3583739116364936296_n.jpgThe smile that lit up a room.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_1161.jpg'Boxcar' Biully Richey's trackside cross.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_1162.jpgThe cross sits just to the left side of the rails out of shot.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_8847.jpgThe old Route 66 bridge on Crookton Road. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_8861.jpgTrain rolling on down the line.2024-11-12T03:51:44+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/12/10/the-birds-have-flown-vulture-city/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0410.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0427.jpgKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0299.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0366.jpgKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0369.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0390.jpgKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0451.jpgKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0485.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/105_0498.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camera2022-11-15T16:29:14+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/09/down-this-road-that-i-must-travel/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_1039.jpgIMG_1039https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_1844.jpgIMG_18442017-12-05T15:44:08+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/23/the-man-who-wrote-route-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/150076645-eoicnvwe-aguidebooktohighway66.jpg150076645.EoicnvWE.AGuideBookToHighway66https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/jack-and-anne.jpgjack and anneJACK AND CHARLOTTE RITTENHOUSE WITH THEIR DAUGHTER ANNE AT HER GRADUATION2017-12-02T12:19:52+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/11/30/where-the-frontier-ended/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/d89d6c6b91c1e14776d7cf4eb300a1bf-460x293-png.jpgThere looks to be a certain amount of artistic licence with this postcard. The Museum never advertised its hers of cattle or horses and the countryside certainly doesn't look like this bit of New Mexico!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/santa-clarita-signal.jpgSANTA CLARITA SIGNALDr Alan Barbakow and some of his Frontier Museum collection. Photo by the Santa Clarita Signal. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f6.jpgThe Museum complex - along the front would have been the cafe and the Old Gay 90s Frontier Bar.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nm017300.jpgThe Frontier in its heyday - cowboys, Indians and beer, what more did the traveller need?https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f5.jpgThe CAFE sign, gradually falling into the undergrowth.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f4.jpgThe Frontier Museum, now mostly collapsed, but still with the skeleton work of the original signs.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f3.jpgTo the right, the shell of the Trading Post and behind it, the Wilson' house. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f2.jpgThe service station on the Frontier Museum's 76 acres.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f1.jpgThis was once the Trading Post although little now remains of its original Wild West-style wooden cladding.2025-03-17T14:23:39+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/11/13/the-saddest-trading-post-on-66/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jury.jpgThe Coroner's Jury examine the murder scene and the open cash register. [Arizona Daily Sun]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/112_0186.jpgToonerville around a month before Mary Smeal's death. I haven't had the heart to photograph it since.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/toonerville-now.jpgToonerville today [Google Streetview]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/11936250156_b9b65fdc09_o.jpgOne of the earliest known photos of the Toonerville Trading Post, then selling Texaco fuel and with a bright mural around the top of the building.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/coconino-sheriff-off.jpgThe interior of the Toonerville Trading Post [Coconino County Sheriff's Department]https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/16418586_136347006220.jpgSlick McAlister's gravestone in Pinal Cemetery, Central Heights, Arizona.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/87af14805866f70e6604404edc71ba9b.jpgToonerville in the 1960s, now a Shell station and concentrating on the cafe and beer rather than Indian curios.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/56e75da431ea6-image.jpgToonerville at the time of the murder, now selling Conoco gas and the original mural badly repainted.2020-03-08T15:13:13+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/11/06/yucca-the-bypass-that-was-bypassed/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y14.jpgy14https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y12.jpgy12https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y10.jpgy10https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y9.jpgy9https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y8.jpgy8https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y6.jpgy6https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y5.jpgy5https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y3.jpgy3https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y2.jpgy2https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/y1.jpgy12019-01-15T00:14:48+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/09/22/the-perils-of-travelling-alone/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0229.jpgSometimes I still wake up in the night terrified of this old-timer. It's not natural to have glowing eyes, even in Oklahoma. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0234.jpgAlthough knitted hair may never make a comeback, this chap will be delighted to know that his big painted on eyebrows are all the vogue with young ladies.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0237.jpgHalf surfer dude, half baker.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0243.jpgWhy a trilby rather than a Stetson? My theory is the creators used all their hair up on his luxurious moustaches and sideburns and had nothing left for his head.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0245.jpgAs if it wasn't enough to make him wear a hat several sizes too small, what indignities have been committed on this poor man's ears?2017-09-30T10:43:54+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/09/06/the-kelleys-of-kingman/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kenneth_kelly_bw_photo_1_t715.jpgKenneth_Kelly_BW_Photo_1_t715Kenneth and Kathleen on their wedding day on 26th August 1944.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dsc00085.jpgDSC00085Mr and Mrs Kelley on the occasion of their 66th wedding anniversary.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dsc00104.jpgDSC00104Kathleen shows off the commemorative plaque given to her by the Route 66 Cruizers Club.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dsc00122.jpgDSC00122Just minutes after the celebration, the skies opened and this was where we'd been standing!https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dsc00081.jpgDSC00081Arriving at the Powerhouse in a 1966 Lincoln.2017-09-18T17:23:10+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/09/08/the-valentine-diner-of-sander/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1816.jpgIMG_1816https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1813.jpgIMG_1813https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1796.jpgIMG_1796https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1794.jpgIMG_1794https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1776.jpgIMG_1776https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1767.jpgIMG_17672023-07-13T13:25:09+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/26/not-quite-such-a-shore-thing/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0961.jpgThe North Shore Motel close to the yacht club. The motel was torn down a few months after this photo was taken.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf09871.jpgHalf close your eyes, ignore the smell of rotting fish and you could see why this was such a popular place in the 1960s. The pilings to the left are the remains of the boat jetty.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/117979-full.jpgBack when it looked like the resort would last forever.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/76eb9dbc591e9424501aae3c257d79ea.jpgFrom a LA Time supplement. The yacht club is in the middle left, with the pool clearly visible. The jetty was destroyed in 1981, and the motel at the top of the picture in late 2008. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0958.jpgIt was reimagined as the Aces & Spades Dance Club & Bar for sci-fi move, The Island. The square above the door had a large ace of spades motif, and there was a BAR sign on top.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0969.jpgBereft of its nautical flags and Albert Frey's signature yellow fibre glass panels.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/105_0117.jpgThe North Shore Beach & Yacht Club in 2014.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0983.jpgThe famous pool, now gone. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0984.jpgThe interior was, by now, pretty wrecked.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dscf0989.jpgThe side of the club that faced the marina.2018-12-04T05:58:50+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/23/the-international-car-forest/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0457.jpgFile0457https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0459.jpgFile0459https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0469.jpgFile0469https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0475.jpgFile0475https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0491.jpgFile0491https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/file0500.jpgFile0500https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_6982.jpgIMG_6982https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_7002.jpgIMG_7002https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_7006.jpgIMG_70062017-09-09T11:46:08+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/09/goodbye-to-the-club-cafe/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/12141104_961168513950983_1831697896696195064_o.jpg12141104_961168513950983_1831697896696195064_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/12113524_961168520617649_6878929466243664445_o.jpg12113524_961168520617649_6878929466243664445_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/12113376_961168507284317_6902935718774061004_o.jpg12113376_961168507284317_6902935718774061004_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/12028629_961168500617651_6556322689289982829_o.jpg12028629_961168500617651_6556322689289982829_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11722555_961168523950982_5862782416910915442_o.jpg11722555_961168523950982_5862782416910915442_o2022-11-01T09:39:18+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/18/ghost-school-in-a-ghost-town/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1375.jpgOne of the gas stations which sprang up to serve Route 66. It limped on in its last years as JD's Service Station before falling into disrepair.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1379.jpgAlthough it has a historical marker, Lela High School is not yet on the National Register of Historic Places.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1380.jpgThe front entrance still looks as spruce as it must have done in 1928.2026-02-15T06:00:56+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/06/big-rig-jig/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/canon_canon-powershot-elph-180_1061456-1100338_000.jpgBig Rig Jig in the courtyard of the Fergusons Motel which is currently scheduled for redevelopment into apartments.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/canon_canon-powershot-elph-180_1151552-1190434_000.jpgCANON_Canon PowerShot ELPH 180_1151552-1190434_000https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/canon_canon-powershot-elph-180_1224408-1263290_000.jpgSign, complete with naked climbing man near the top.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/canon_canon-powershot-elph-180_1255256-1294138_000.jpgCANON_Canon PowerShot ELPH 180_1255256-1294138_000https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/14502888_1184981934902972_7200648348657323985_n.jpgAnother naked climbing man. 2017-09-09T12:01:21+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/05/the-town-where-dinosaurs-lived/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-3.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-2.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin1.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-9.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-7.jpgInterior of Berlin's 1898 30 stamp millhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-6.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-5.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-16.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-15.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/berlin-12.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camera2017-08-06T11:51:05+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/08/04/catching-that-dream/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a.jpgSeptember 2012KODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b.jpgSeptember 2015https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/c.jpgApril 20172017-09-09T12:06:41+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/12/15/the-elizalde-cement-works/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ooo.jpgooohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ooooo.jpgooooohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ooooooo.jpgooooooohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/oooo.jpgoooohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/oo.jpgoohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/o.jpgo2017-08-03T13:23:33+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/13/south-of-devils-gate/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10688422_887802891287546_8492169475069873205_o-copy.jpg10688422_887802891287546_8492169475069873205_o - Copyhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11252256_887802914620877_2523350173494216603_o-copy.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11249315_887802904620878_3187455938832676805_o-copy.jpg1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11289536_887802911287544_5125570771228281882_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11252256_887802914620877_2523350173494216603_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11249315_887802904620878_3187455938832676805_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10688422_887802891287546_8492169475069873205_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1888777_887802894620879_6629947920116140908_o.jpg2021-05-09T10:21:09+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/30/the-british-airmen-of-miami/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ww2-era-british-foreign-kings-medal-in-the-cause-of-freedom-cased-2.jpgThe King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom; Mrs Hill's medal was one of 2539 awarded.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/39522245_1428546399.jpgMrs Hill and her husband lie buried beside the British airmen.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/39521938_1428546495.jpg39521938_1428546495https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/lead630_blur-deb9695cb20bca44ef7fd525c746258e.jpgThe British Commonwealth headstone of the British air cadets.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/39521938_124778118541.jpgThe marker erected to the memory of Frances Hill from the training school graduates.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/british_flyers-portrait-small.jpgThe Union Jack flying above the RAF airmen's graves.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/39521938_1460862584.jpgFrantie Mae 'Frances' Hill tending to the graves of her boys, marked then by white wooden crosses.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/3845507_g.jpg3845507_G2017-09-26T02:11:38+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/28/a-little-place-in-the-desert/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8558.jpgThe Bonnie Claire Mine, now private property and fenced off.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8565.jpgRapidly deteriorating mine building; six years ago this still had the roof framework. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8573.jpgThat speaker probably doesn't date back to the 1940s...https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8587.jpgThe Huson House, with an extension in the form of a vintage trailer.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8604.jpgCollapsing mine processing building.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8609.jpgInterior of one of the mine buildings.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8622.jpgIt didn't seem wiser to get any closer to what seemed like quite a deep shaft.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/112_8651.jpgThe Huson House.2023-11-03T01:05:12+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/24/sign-of-the-times/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mwc.jpgThe Mojave Water Camp service station. Note the cabins to the left of the main building.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_8436.jpgIMG_8436https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_8434.jpgAll that's left of Poe's Cafe, service station and motel. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/do.jpgThe Desert Oasis Cafe in the 1950s, to judge by the gas pumps. The Poe's Cafe sign has been replaced and awnings fixed over the windows, while the gas station now retails Richfield fuel.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1949.jpgPoe's Cafe in 1949.2025-06-23T19:42:54+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/19/the-biggest-skull-in-arizona/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170415164024454703000000-o.jpg20170415164024454703000000-ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170415163824264513000000-o.jpg20170415163824264513000000-ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170415163817090464000000-o.jpg20170415163817090464000000-ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/20170415163710097808000000-o.jpg20170415163710097808000000-ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/canon_canon-eos-70d_14744128-14783117_000.jpg2017-07-19T21:26:17+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/15/the-finest-drug-store-in-creek-county/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gvt-roberts-in-depew-okla-along-rt-66.jpgDr Coppedge's Sears, Roebuck house which also stood in disrepair for years but has now been refurbished.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1085.jpgIMG_1085For years, the Coppedge Drug Store has been just a roofless shell. Just behind, on the left, can be seen Dr Coppedge's house. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1088.jpgThe Coppedge Hospital stood across the street and was built in the same style. It's in better shape than the drug store, but for how long?https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1089.jpgMain Street, Depew. Nowadays, 93% of the residents work in other towns. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1872.jpgIn the 1920s, the large plate glass windows must have been an impressive sight on Main Street.2020-09-09T05:25:06+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/11/the-strange-tale-of-kennedys-lincoln/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kenn2.jpgWorkers from coach builders Hess & Eichenhardt customizing the Lincoln for its duties with President Kennedy.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kennedy-1.jpgThe Presidential limousine on duty in early 1963. Here the detachable rear roof is fitted. It had been removed in Dallas, although it wasn't bulletproof anyway. https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5233.jpgAlthough a 1961 model, the Lincoln was fitted with a 1962 grille before it went into official service.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5237.jpgWhen the Lincoln - codename X-100 - returned to service in 1964, it had been fitted with a permanent steel roof. 2022-08-03T22:18:52+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/27/the-11th-street-bridge/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ne-towards-11th-st-bridge-1917.jpgNE towards 11th St Bridge in 1917, shortly after it openedhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_9825.jpgEven the weeds have to fend for themselveshttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_9815.jpgAll gated offhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_9814.jpgThere was a gate open. Honesthttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_9806.jpgThe 'Cyrus Avery Memorial Bridge' from the Cyrus Avery Memorial Plaza. Those Tulsans are proud of their native son.https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cyrus.jpgTulsa old and new - looking from the 11th Street Bridge to the city centre2017-07-15T16:21:51+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/07/04/never-quite-lost-on-facebook/2017-07-04T19:13:45+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/06/14/last-toll-of-the-bells-motel/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/az079280.jpgAZ079280https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/az079070.jpgAZ079070https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_10_012928.jpg06_10_012928https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/untitled-1.jpgUntitled-1https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/desert.jpgdesert2023-04-23T20:35:56+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/06/03/the-town-that-never-was/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f1.jpgKODAK Digital Still CameraKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/e1.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/c1.jpgKODAK Digital Still Camerahttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/b1.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/a1.jpg2024-11-07T19:27:48+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2017/06/01/only-on-a-saturday-night/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/denton-41.jpgGetting your kicks, but there never any rock 'n' roll at Bert'shttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bert-denton-2.jpgMr Elbert Dentonhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/denton-4.jpgClosed, but the building is still hanging in therehttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/denton-3.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/denton-2.jpgVisiting Bert's Country Dancing at Bert's Country Dancing Place2022-11-04T11:36:21+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/12/07/the-factory-that-never-was/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11337060_885679411499894_6439798320751203696_o.jpg11337060_885679411499894_6439798320751203696_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11334051_885679401499895_8475226351948295664_o.jpg11334051_885679401499895_8475226351948295664_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11312854_885679414833227_8390897977044154688_o.jpg11312854_885679414833227_8390897977044154688_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11289489_885679418166560_1426846276698904044_o.jpg11289489_885679418166560_1426846276698904044_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11230721_939568772777624_3729143197850919264_n.jpg11230721_939568772777624_3729143197850919264_nhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/11139355_885679398166562_463181637644374783_n.jpg11139355_885679398166562_463181637644374783_nhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/10988513_885679408166561_8010437174527010206_o.jpg10988513_885679408166561_8010437174527010206_o2016-12-07T20:36:10+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2016/06/01/snakes-on-a-plain/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_0546.jpgIMG_0546https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/regalfront-e1428398167294.pngRegalfront-e1428398167294This image is of E Mike Allred, but of a time when the Regal Reptile Ranch was in Erick, Sayre. Given that the Smithsonian Institution and the photographer, Steve Fitch, date this photo as 1972 and Allred appears to be an old man in the picture, then it seems his reptile attraction in Lela was probably rather short-lived.2016-06-02T02:06:18+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/09/move-along-nothing-to-see/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11269743_887202911347544_618693782726620544_n.jpg11269743_887202911347544_618693782726620544_nhttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11038746_887202914680877_6000104896075802142_o.jpg11038746_887202914680877_6000104896075802142_ohttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10478986_887202918014210_1233757165267706460_n.jpg10478986_887202918014210_1233757165267706460_n2017-08-04T14:02:29+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/11/no-room-at-the-henning/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hen4.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hen3.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hen1.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hen2.jpg2019-11-11T21:20:17+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.com/2015/11/16/a-grave-in-the-desert/https://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11270583_883206248413877_6501225132542341589_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11263147_883206238413878_2931395365512058804_n.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/11200932_883206245080544_5839432076905332044_o.jpghttps://neverquitelost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/10983852_883206241747211_6223610277419336287_n.jpg2017-06-25T19:24:57+00:00monthlyhttps://neverquitelost.comdaily1.02026-03-24T11:23:44+00:00