Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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Mohave County Courthouse (1915, by Lescher & Kibbey
in Neoclassical style) |
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Our Arizona Route 66 Museum ticket also included the
Bonelli House (1915, in Colonial Revival style); because
their first house burned down, the Bonellis made sure
every room exited to the outside porches |
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| Witch's Teat rock formation from Oatman Highway |
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| Historic Route 66/Oatman Highway, Golden Valley, AZ |
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Cool Springs Mobil Oil Station (original 1926,
burned 1966, rebuilt 2004) in Golden Valley, AZ |
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Shaffer Spring/Fish Bowl Spring is halfway up the hillside;
can you see Tamiko there in black and white? (KSS) |
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The spring is in a rock depression
above the black and white area |
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The spring does not look like a "pristine oasis," but it
was built in the 1930s under the WPA |
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| View east at Sitgreaves Pass (3,586'/1,093 m) |
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| Larrea tridentata/Creosote |
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To get a view to the west, we walked up a bluff,
that was covered with memorials |
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| Apparently this is a popular place to leave or scatter cremains |
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| Looking west to California and Nevada |
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| There is Oatman Highway winding down from the pass |
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| Look! Wild burros |
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Proof that we paid the honor system $2
for parking in Oatman, AZ |
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| Oatman Post Office |
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| Oatman has retained the look of a gold-mining town |
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| Burros are the descendents of the miners' burros |
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You can purchase pellets to
feed to the burros (KSS) |
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| Oatman has Old West style wooden sidewalks |
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| Tamiko with a photo-op burro (KSS) |
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The Oatman Hotel (1902 as the Drulin Hotel,
rebuilt 1924 after a fire)
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More dollar bills stapled to the walls of the
Oatman Hotel lobby |
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The stairs to the Gable-Lombard
Honeymoon Suite |
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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were said to have spent
their first night after getting married in this hotel in 1939 |
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| "Gold" is everywhere in town |
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| Unidentified building above Oatman's main street |
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| Mama and youngster burros |
We took a detour to Lake Havasu City, AZ.
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Tamiko and the London Bridge (original bridge 1831,
by John Rennie and his son) (KSS) |
By 1962, this London Bridge could not handle the traffic, so the city sold it in 1968 to make way for a replacement. It was purchased by developer, Robert P McCulloch, for use in his 1964 planned community on Lake Havasu in Arizona. Blocks of granite were cut from the London Bridge, numbered and resized before transport to the US. A new bridge was built in Lake Havasu City (1968 on land) and clad in the granite blocks, completed in 1971. Then a water channel was dredged to create an island out of Pittsburgh Point.
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Across the Bridgewater Channel Canal is the
London Bridge Resort (1984) with crenellated
towers and palm trees |
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| London Bridge seen from the west side |
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We had drinks at the Barley Brothers Restaurant & Brewery
(1997), which did not have any Ye Olde England ambience
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| They did have a poster of Larry Fitzgerald and House Beers ... |
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| ... and a view of the London Bridge |
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Crossing the London Bridge (NB: rumors that
McCulloch thought he was purchasing the
Tower Bridge of London is apparently fake news) |
Next: Route 66 in Caliifornia.
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