Two Bird Houses And A Satellite Dish
by Don Struke
Title
Two Bird Houses And A Satellite Dish
Artist
Don Struke
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
No doubt this general store in the early 1900s Nevada town of Rhyolite saw its share of gold miners blowing some of their money on, well, mercantile stuff, but not for long. The town was established in 1905 and essentially was abandoned by 1920, all gold from the nearby hills long gone. The town's electricity had been turned off in 1916 which raises a question about that satellite dish, doesn't it? From Wiki: "Starting as a two-man camp in January 1905, Rhyolite became a town of 1,200 people in two weeks and reached a population of 2,500 by June 1905. By then it had 50 saloons, 35 gambling tables, cribs for prostitution, 19 lodging houses, 16 restaurants, half a dozen barbers, a public bath house, and a weekly newspaper, the Rhyolite Herald." The mine that made all that possible was owned by the man who married my mother's aunt, Charles W. Schwab, much more famous from his careers with Bethlehem Steel and U.S. Steel. No, he was not related to the current day guy with the same name, but it would be interesting to see what ol' Unca Chuck's business smarts could have done with Chuck Two's investments.
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May 4th, 2011
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Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
The title brought me in... Now that I am here I want to stay a while. INTERESTING! Will come back soon, Pardnuh. :~)
Don Struke replied:
Anne-Elizabeth, thank you! Or may I call you A-E (same initials of my favorite woman adventurer, Amelia Earhart). Many of my photos were taken in your state, BTW. Glad you saluted Frida Kahlo. Selma Hayek's film got most of the facts right, but not all.