2021-08-30, 06:57 PM
(2021-08-30, 09:54 AM)DAW89446 Wrote: I have a photo of a 1956 Buick Roadmaster parked near the Hilton with the smelter stack in the background and a woman standing by the car. In Trona, my wife and I were friends with a now long deceased woman who also had a 1950s Buick Roadmaster and who used to take a cake to Shotgun Mary at Panamint every Christmas in the 1950s and 1960s.
Loving these detailed vintage stories. Last week searched in vain for a photo of Shotgun Mary. Do you happen to have one? Anyway to see that photo of the Buick near the Hilton? I've only been up Surprise Canyon twice. I slept in my hammock on the Hilton's front porch and had the whole place to myself. The second time I arrived late on a full moon night and the Hilton was occupied so I slept in the Workshop. I can't believe the smokestack still stands. Sad day when it tips over.
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