This wasn't planned, but Salome is actually having their Dick Wick Hall Day this Saturday October 19. There is a parade at 11 am on Highway 60, then a bunch of other events after.
Excellent as always. I do have one question though. Are you sure that her name was pronounced the way you say it? The biblical Salome I always heard pronounced sa-LOW-may. But everyone gets to pronounce their name however they want to.
Salome and dancing is, of course, a reference to the New Testamant story of King Herod promising Salome anything she desired if she would dance for him. After she danced, her mother, who hated John The Baptist for condeming her relationship with the king, told her to demand the head of John The Baptist on a platter, which he reluctantly carried out.
@@davidhull1481 He used the correct pronunciation ( as used in the local vernacular ) for the town name. Interestingly, according to Bible Speak ( online ), the proper pronunciation for the biblical name is sa-LOW-mee.
Nobody presents the love and respect of America and it's beautiful, sometimes forgotten past better than you. Your videos and the work put into them are always highly appreciated. Thank you!
In 1985 I worked on a groundwater investigation of McMullen Valley, when Phoenix was aiming to buy the land for its water resources. Spent several weeks out there, including during fall festival Dick Wick Hall Days. Another great video, Steve!
Watching this all the way from Sweden every wednesday night, thank you Steve for giving me a tour of parts of your country. I'ts a dream of mine to come visit and explore similar places some time. Hands down my favorite creator on this platform.
Wow.....I live in Salome!..the real story on the rock building is not too historical, it was built in the early 1980s for a Chevy car commercial , the commercial was only shown in Italy all the cowboys in the commercial were local people.
Ya, i always wondered about that place,,always asking about it then found out the real story,,, there is a stage coach stop a few miles north of hw 60 just west of where you started the video...
@@jamesandreadventures2284no, but i asked about it for several years, then just by coincidence I was talking to a guy who was about 80 years old and he lived in Salome all his life and he told me, then about a year after that I asked another person who had live here 55 years and she told me the same thing.....
I've traveled Hwy 60 and gone through Salome numerous times traveling from the L.A. area to Prescott. I never realized anything about the town, or any of the other small spots along 60. This has been quite interesting, Steve. Thanks for doing this episode!!
Outstanding! I live in Tonopah, which is on the Salome Highway about an hour east of Salome. Salome is actually a very interesting town and popular with retired snowbirds.
@@SidetrackAdventures ; I'm actually looking at Salome as a place to live. Salome has two industries, pecan orchards and things related to snowbirds. Yes, there is spillover from Quartzite, but not in a BLM camping sort of way. Most of the RV activity is only in winter and people keep thing low-key and friendly. There is an airstrip, so some are pilots. My impression is it's a refuge from the congestion and caos of Quartzite. And, Salome isn't a spot on the map for many nomads. A super plus are the tolerant building codes, which allow constructing an RV docking station. You could do a second video looking at the area south of Salome Highway.
I've lived in Arizona for almost 40 years and get out a lot, yet Steve is always showing me new stuff in my literal backyard! Keep up the great channel!
As usual, great historic information and wonderful insight into our country and the State of Arizona. Thanks for what y ou do, I never get bored of your videos. Kudos.
I overnighted in Salome about 20 years ago. HWY10 was closed where the road started to rise. My newly purchased Alfa(which was already old) couldn't handle to stopped traffic in the 112* heat. Found Salome and spent the night. Thanks Steve for reminding me about this town.
"Car travel used to take a lot longer..." Yep, that it did. The sky was far more blue then, and folks were far more pleasant. It all turned into a crazy race track somewhere in the 1990s I reckon. I'm glad I got to see "the time before". Many thanks for sharing your nice video.
Good morning Steve! Another great history lesson while drinking coffee and getting my day going. I don't know how you can find all these stories and places to go, but you do an excellent job of keeping us entertained and educated. You my friend are one of a kind! Thank you so much for what you bring us.
I'm 61 and passed through with family in 1970. Great side adventure from Phoenix. Thanks for showing this. I loved seeing the history of the area. I became a history teacher.
Thank you for another historical gem. You perform serious research on all of the places you go, and you are an entertaining storyteller of the history and uniqueness of these places.
This is FN cool... I live fairy close on the River.. and usually drive 60 to Phoenix and Wickenburg Have passed through there so many times in the last 30 years.. Could never live in the city. No wonder people like your videos..
My dad used to live in California in the late 60's to early 70's and he would come and get us kids and we would travel Hwy 60 to California to spend a couple of weeks with him. I lived in Phoenix then. So this and the towns bring back old memories.
I live in AZ. In our modern world, we take so much for granted. When you drive through small towns, it makes me wonder. What were their motivation to move here. How did they survive? Some of these people had great insight, fortitude and imagination to start these towns. Some places turned out successful and some not so successful. The amount of effort involved to do anything back then was immense compered to how easy it would be now. Whether it was native Americans, Spanish, Anglos my hat is off for you. Truly amazing.
One of my high school friends grew up in Salome. For whatever reason, her parents decided to have her go to high school in Wickenburg, which was a bit of a drive every day. They had a really awesome back yard with so much cool desert vegetation and it felt like a hidden oasis. Nice memories of spending a little time in that odd little town.
Thank you Steve for another great history tour. You certainly do a lot of research before posting your video's. I sit here at home in New Zealand and have seen more of America through your great video's than what we see on tv. Thank you
Lived there in 1959 while my dad paved Hwy 60 from Ehrenburg to Wickenburg. We lived in the Motel for a couple months before moving to the new community of Glendale AZ Spent a lot of time in that pool during the summer, green water and all.
Have been through there more times than I can count. Going from San Diego to Prescott and back . Many interesting small towns along this stretch of road. Go Padres. Next year.
I really enjoy seeing Salome which I have seen on Google Earth Maps street view a few times and it really is an amazing interesting place thank you for showing Salome until next time thank you.👻🎃🇺🇲
@@SidetrackAdventures Probably not a good idea. THE SARGE
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I've stopped in Salome a couple of times on journeys to and from California (from Arizona). There's a wonderful restaurant/bar there which makes an excellent stopping place. It used to be a Greyhound bus stop. There are old photos in the restaurant of the Greyhound stop. I never knew anything of the town's past, so this video was fascinating. Next time I pass through I will have a new appreciation for the town's history.
Unfortunately that restaurant connected to the bar has been in and out of business the last few years,,,the people that use to run the restaurant moved about 3 miles west onto the south side of high way 60 ,,good place but not always open in the summer
@@ericsimpson1176 I believe you misread my comment - I drive through about 10-20 times a year, but I don't have time to stop. Don's Cactus Bar always looks like an oasis to me but I cannot follow my bliss bc I still have too many hours to go...! I really enjoy the feeling of the area. No disrespect meant to the residents.
I too have driven past this place numerous times going to Prescott (Press-kit) from San Diego. I always thought it was named after the Biblical Salome (Sal-O-May), and her dance of the seven veils. But over the years I've learned that locals often have their own way of pronouncing place names. Dick Wick Hall was definitely a character. His brand of folksy humor was all the rage at the time (I have a great-uncle who wrote humor columns and advertising copy for the Wisconsin Cheese Journal in the early 1900s). The towns along that stretch of the 60 are so familiar; Wenden, Hope, etc. There used to be a place near there along the 60 that sold antiques, Mexican pottery, and huge rust finish sculptures of horses, cacti, and even a life-size stage coach with 4 horses. They looked similar to some sculptures you've featured before on this channel. I stopped a few times to take photos, but after 2020 everything is gone and the place is for sale. Really fun to learn more about this little town.
Salome holds a bit of my family history, as does Dick Wick Hall. My grandmother spent several years there in the 20’s, and her father, Samuel Camp, a prolific painter of that area, and Mr. Hall were buddies. The used to be a mercyantile building on Main, which has a painting of Salome laying on her side, that he painted. Some years later, I was at the only open restaurant there, looking for some of my ggfs paintings, and got to talk to a lady who knew my grandmother as they were chums. She also informed me, that my ggf had painted a picture of the Main Street, with the Mercantile store in it. So Samuel painted a picture of his own artwork on that building! I had seen images of the building some time in the 80’s, but did not make the connection. My grandmother had lots of stories about Salome, where she danced!
Talk about a one horse 🐎 town stayed there 8 years ago at that motel when I went duck hunting on Alamo lake, interesting locals, would definitely visit again👍
I lived in Wickenburg as a kid and when traveling west we would always stop Sheffler’s cafe for breakfast. They had great food. We also had family from there, and Wenden also.
Great timing! Just stumbled across this video after a road trip that took me from Joshua Tree NP East along Hwy 62, which was an amazing and unexpected experience. I was planning to go back to Tucson through Salome, but decided against it because I had promised my young son pizza, so we went by Quartzsite instead, down SR 95. I wondered what I missed by bypassing Salome, and here's your video! I just finished watching your Hwy 62 video as well. Great content!
I sure love your style in putting these together, Steve! Been a fan for about a year. Salome has always been a particular soft spot of mine, because soon after moving here to Phoenix as a kid in '72, I heard about Dick Wick Hall. (Ya, I was and am still, a weird reader/history kid!) At the time, it was still the road to L.A., and my parents and I traveled over fairly frequently. Funny your choice of Salome popping up this week! Tuesday, my Facebook memories were filled with one of my now somewhat rare "gypsy days", which is the odd day every now and then, when I wake up and decide not to be everybody's Hot Rod builder/mechanic here in Phoenix, but decide to drive to a random spot on the Arizona map. That day, it was Salome, and it was five years ago. I did basically the same trip you did, with out the video camera, just my cell phone camera! A cool little town, that unfortunately, there isn't much left of from the "glory days"...
I just love this area of the country! Albeit a little on the warm side. It's beautiful & reasonably unpopulated. Your soundtrack is impeccable once again! Safe travels!👍🙏
My family moved from LA County to Prescott, AZ. We would drive through those towns regularly for 10 years going to LA and home to Prescott. The fist time I saw that sign in Hope I had to stop and take a picture.
So much history, and so interesting . Driven thru Salome many times. Now I’m gonna stop and spend a bit of time . Thank you. A very interesting video .
Dad took us there a few times on road trips. I remember him saying it was "Salome, where she danced". We both got a kick out of that name and I've always remembered it that way. Another great video. Go Padres!⚾️
There's one thing I've learned from your fantastic adventures Steve. There was absolutely no shortage whatsoever of eccentric characters out west during that period when the pioneers had blazed the trails to California and the wild west was losing its reputation for wildness. I'm wondering if that was something those in between times civilization builders needed as part of their personality. As always, a fascinating trip along relatively recent memory lane.
Thanks for another great video. I have interest in the town as the scout troop I was in ate at a restaurant there in the early 1970s, on the way home from camping in the snow in Prescottt. I understand that the restaurant burnt down a few years later. It was filled with taxidermy and had photos from a movie named "Salome, Where She Danced," starring Yvette Mimieux. I saw the movie on an LA station years later. Mimieux did a dance of 1000 veils for the grizzled miners of the town. They were so taken by the dance that they renamed the town after Mimieux's character's performance. It wasn't until a few years after that, that I learned the true origin of the name.
Oh, and Steve, May I humbly suggest, Crown King, Agua Calliente, Bouse, Rock Springs, and even Phoenix's South Mountain park as future places to receive your touch...
On the marker where the gas station use to be, there was a funny write-up under the picture of the gas station. Also, the poem of the frog was funny to read. I think it would have been a real pleasure to meet Dick Wick Hall. I like people with a sense of humor. Thanks Steve! This one was fun!
Thank you for this video! Another quaint town with a brief existence. But as is pointed out (in the Vedic and Buddhist traditions) everything with a beginning has an ending. Which evokes a tinge of sadness on viewing the remains of a bygone era.
Love your "lost" Arizona series. I cycled that length of US60 from Phoenix/Wickenburg/Vicksburg. Paid for water in Salome (1st time I ever had to do that) and camped out in the desert north of Vicksburg. This was about 6 years ago. Ain't too much to look at out there, even while cycling.
The shade under the tree in the pocket park looks inviting. Although simple, the bench is in a good spot. Who knows how many people have cooled off there while snakes stalked lizards among the cactus? Frogs need water, toads don't, so the "frog" may have really been a dry land toad. Does that motel have a swimming pool? Couldn't tell for sure. Is it still operating? The 9-11 memorial is intriguing. There must be some connection between that disastrous event in United States history and this small town. Too bad the longtime resident cactus can't tell us what the "stagecoach" building really is. Swallowing bacteria from his sixteen infected teeth may have contributed to his kidney issues. People don't realize how vitally important good oral hygiene is for internal organ health. Another great video. Thank you.
thanks, I drive through a few times a year, while all small towns in America have stories, this one is fascinating. and the Golf course and park are the only decent free bathroom and resting point between Prescott and Yuma, so we always stop there to "Stretch"
This wasn't planned, but Salome is actually having their Dick Wick Hall Day this Saturday October 19. There is a parade at 11 am on Highway 60, then a bunch of other events after.
Excellent as always. I do have one question though. Are you sure that her name was pronounced the way you say it? The biblical Salome I always heard pronounced sa-LOW-may. But everyone gets to pronounce their name however they want to.
Salome and dancing is, of course, a reference to the New Testamant story of King Herod promising Salome anything she desired if she would dance for him. After she danced, her mother, who hated John The Baptist for condeming her relationship with the king, told her to demand the head of John The Baptist on a platter, which he reluctantly carried out.
@@davidhull1481 He used the correct pronunciation ( as used in the local vernacular ) for the town name. Interestingly, according to Bible Speak ( online ), the proper pronunciation for the biblical name is sa-LOW-mee.
@@elkhunter8664 I’ve heard that too, but the one I mentioned is the one I hear most often.
@@davidhull1481 I'm sure the town's name is pronounced how it's said in the video. I'm not sure why it's pronounced that way though.
Nothing like having lunch, and taking another awesome Sidetrack Adventure. Thanks Steve. 👍👍
I save his videos for lunch too! Just finished.
Count me in the "lunch time watchers" club. Always wholesome and informative content.
@USARMYVET Well said sir may I have another Video from Steve. Next week👍
Nothing like. Lets build more highways so we can put every small business out.. Good job everyone, keep on buying more Amazon
STEVE IS LIKE A JULES VERNE HE IS SO FULL OF GOOD INFORMATION AND HE HAS A REALLY GOOD VOICE!
Thank you.
Jules Verne? 🤔
@@garryferrington811 awesome writer
Nobody presents the love and respect of America and it's beautiful, sometimes forgotten past better than you. Your videos and the work put into them are always highly appreciated. Thank you!
In 1985 I worked on a groundwater investigation of McMullen Valley, when Phoenix was aiming to buy the land for its water resources. Spent several weeks out there, including during fall festival Dick Wick Hall Days.
Another great video, Steve!
Once again you've made a place that most of us would drive quickly through very interesting. Thanks for another great tour!
Watching this all the way from Sweden every wednesday night, thank you Steve for giving me a tour of parts of your country. I'ts a dream of mine to come visit and explore similar places some time. Hands down my favorite creator on this platform.
I am also watching this from Sweden, i have been traveling around small towns in the mid west 😀
Southwestern US is an awesome place to explore. So many cool old ghost towns, beautiful scenery, and history.
Wow.....I live in Salome!..the real story on the rock building is not too historical, it was built in the early 1980s for a Chevy car commercial , the commercial was only shown in Italy all the cowboys in the commercial were local people.
Wow, very interesting. Its funny how many places claim that its a stage station. That's some pretty sturdy construction for a commercial.
Ya, i always wondered about that place,,always asking about it then found out the real story,,, there is a stage coach stop a few miles north of hw 60 just west of where you started the video...
Do you have any links to info on this?
@@jamesandreadventures2284no, but i asked about it for several years, then just by coincidence I was talking to a guy who was about 80 years old and he lived in Salome all his life and he told me, then about a year after that I asked another person who had live here 55 years and she told me the same thing.....
That's actually interesting.
I've traveled Hwy 60 and gone through Salome numerous times traveling from the L.A. area to Prescott. I never realized anything about the town, or any of the other small spots along 60. This has been quite interesting, Steve. Thanks for doing this episode!!
Outstanding! I live in Tonopah, which is on the Salome Highway about an hour east of Salome. Salome is actually a very interesting town and popular with retired snowbirds.
Thank you for the support. Does Salome get spill over from Quartzite? Its not that far and I noticed quite a few RV parks.
@@SidetrackAdventures ; I'm actually looking at Salome as a place to live. Salome has two industries, pecan orchards and things related to snowbirds. Yes, there is spillover from Quartzite, but not in a BLM camping sort of way. Most of the RV activity is only in winter and people keep thing low-key and friendly. There is an airstrip, so some are pilots. My impression is it's a refuge from the congestion and caos of Quartzite. And, Salome isn't a spot on the map for many nomads. A super plus are the tolerant building codes, which allow constructing an RV docking station. You could do a second video looking at the area south of Salome Highway.
What a colorful guy and town. Thanks for sharing…!
I've lived in Arizona for almost 40 years and get out a lot, yet Steve is always showing me new stuff in my literal backyard! Keep up the great channel!
As usual, great historic information and wonderful insight into our country and the State of Arizona. Thanks for what y ou do, I never get bored of your videos. Kudos.
I live here in Salome, Thanks for this !
I'm curious. Do you pronounce it "sa-loam" or "sa-lo-may"?
@@ljosephdumas3113 Sa-Loam for most people.
any hookers left??????????????
Whats it like?
I went to second grade in Wenden in the early 60s.
i love your adventures and how well you do your homework on the history of the areas you visit, keep up the great work.
I overnighted in Salome about 20 years ago. HWY10 was closed where the road started to rise. My newly purchased Alfa(which was already old) couldn't handle to stopped traffic in the 112* heat. Found Salome and spent the night. Thanks Steve for reminding me about this town.
"Car travel used to take a lot longer..." Yep, that it did. The sky was far more blue then, and folks were far more pleasant. It all turned into a crazy race track somewhere in the 1990s I reckon. I'm glad I got to see "the time before". Many thanks for sharing your nice video.
Same here, in Holland. Born early 70s, 80s were great and then it all turned to shythe.
I love Salome! It has that great little country store with everything you could possibly think of! And plenty of boondocking! Oh! And a bar!!!!
I continue to enjoy Steve's "sidetrack adventures;" thanks, Steve, for your interesting sites!
Good morning Steve! Another great history lesson while drinking coffee and getting my day going. I don't know how you can find all these stories and places to go, but you do an excellent job of keeping us entertained and educated. You my friend are one of a kind! Thank you so much for what you bring us.
You bring history back to America love every video.
What a great story, it makes me long for days of old. Dick must've been quite a character. May he rest in peace.
I'm 61 and passed through with family in 1970. Great side adventure from Phoenix. Thanks for showing this. I loved seeing the history of the area. I became a history teacher.
no matter what , america's even ruins also has so much beauty in it .
america is so beautiful place .
You are the best, Steve! Thank you for your wonderful stories
Thank you for another historical gem. You perform serious research on all of the places you go, and you are an entertaining storyteller of the history and uniqueness of these places.
This is FN cool... I live fairy close on the River.. and usually drive 60 to Phoenix and Wickenburg Have passed through there so many times in the last 30 years.. Could never live in the city. No wonder people like your videos..
My dad used to live in California in the late 60's to early 70's and he would come and get us kids and we would travel Hwy 60 to California to spend a couple of weeks with him. I lived in Phoenix then. So this and the towns bring back old memories.
Fascinating! Love the history of these old desert spots. Keep ‘em coming.
I live in AZ. In our modern world, we take so much for granted. When you drive through small towns, it makes me wonder. What were their motivation to move here. How did they survive? Some of these people had great insight, fortitude and imagination to start these towns. Some places turned out successful and some not so successful. The amount of effort involved to do anything back then was immense compered to how easy it would be now. Whether it was native Americans, Spanish, Anglos my hat is off for you. Truly amazing.
One of my high school friends grew up in Salome. For whatever reason, her parents decided to have her go to high school in Wickenburg, which was a bit of a drive every day. They had a really awesome back yard with so much cool desert vegetation and it felt like a hidden oasis. Nice memories of spending a little time in that odd little town.
Thanks Steve for the upload. Have my breakfast ready and enjoying this episode!
Enjoy your breakfast.
Brilliant. I lived in Phoenix in the early 1970s and remember driving through Salome. I wish I’d had this video to look at back then. Great work.
Thanks again for another great look at the back roads of the Southwest.
I love the low key and nicely researched videos. Thank you for the adventures, Steve.
Thank you Steve for another great history tour. You certainly do a lot of research before posting your video's. I sit here at home in New Zealand and have seen more of America through your great video's than what we see on tv. Thank you
I remember driving through there as a kid. My dad would say "Salome where she danced" I never got it until now! Glad I watched this.
Hall was definitely a funny man…thanks for telling us about him.
Good Tour and I really enjoy the History ..Thanks ....
Lived there in 1959 while my dad paved Hwy 60 from Ehrenburg to Wickenburg. We lived in the Motel for a couple months before moving to the new community of Glendale AZ Spent a lot of time in that pool during the summer, green water and all.
Thank you for another fascinating travelogue & mini-history lesson.
You are welcome.
Have been through there more times than I can count. Going from San Diego to Prescott and back . Many interesting small towns along this stretch of road. Go Padres. Next year.
Thanks for the video Steve. While my parents lived in Prescott, we drove through Salome many times. Nice memories!
Yup! I drove thru Salome many times too from LA to Prescott when my cousin lived there!
I really enjoy seeing Salome which I have seen on Google Earth Maps street view a few times and it really is an amazing interesting place
thank you for showing Salome until next time thank you.👻🎃🇺🇲
My Goodness, the places you find, very interesting, Dick Wick, Huuuummmmmm. Thank You Sir. THE SARGE
I was going to make a joke about the name but my wife gave me a mean look!
@@SidetrackAdventures😂
The Sarge. Hmmmm😊
It was probably a name no one gave a second thought about back in those days.
@@SidetrackAdventures Probably not a good idea. THE SARGE
I've stopped in Salome a couple of times on journeys to and from California (from Arizona). There's a wonderful restaurant/bar there which makes an excellent stopping place. It used to be a Greyhound bus stop. There are old photos in the restaurant of the Greyhound stop. I never knew anything of the town's past, so this video was fascinating. Next time I pass through I will have a new appreciation for the town's history.
Thanks for stopping so we don't have to...! ;)
Unfortunately that restaurant connected to the bar has been in and out of business the last few years,,,the people that use to run the restaurant moved about 3 miles west onto the south side of high way 60 ,,good place but not always open in the summer
@@ericsimpson1176 I believe you misread my comment - I drive through about 10-20 times a year, but I don't have time to stop. Don's Cactus Bar always looks like an oasis to me but I cannot follow my bliss bc I still have too many hours to go...! I really enjoy the feeling of the area. No disrespect meant to the residents.
@desertwaters_808 sorry, i miss understood i will take down my comment
@@ericsimpson1176 🙏🙏🙏
I too have driven past this place numerous times going to Prescott (Press-kit) from San Diego. I always thought it was named after the Biblical Salome (Sal-O-May), and her dance of the seven veils. But over the years I've learned that locals often have their own way of pronouncing place names. Dick Wick Hall was definitely a character. His brand of folksy humor was all the rage at the time (I have a great-uncle who wrote humor columns and advertising copy for the Wisconsin Cheese Journal in the early 1900s). The towns along that stretch of the 60 are so familiar; Wenden, Hope, etc. There used to be a place near there along the 60 that sold antiques, Mexican pottery, and huge rust finish sculptures of horses, cacti, and even a life-size stage coach with 4 horses. They looked similar to some sculptures you've featured before on this channel. I stopped a few times to take photos, but after 2020 everything is gone and the place is for sale. Really fun to learn more about this little town.
Yeah I can't not pronounce it Sa -Lo-Meh
I grew up in Arizona in the 50s $ 60s and back then it was called Sal o may more often than not
Sal-O-May? 😂😂😂😂 I think you mean (Sal-Oh-Meh)😊
@@user-Elle41 they both sound the same phoneticly
Salome holds a bit of my family history, as does Dick Wick Hall.
My grandmother spent several years there in the 20’s, and her father, Samuel Camp, a prolific painter of that area, and Mr. Hall were buddies.
The used to be a mercyantile building on Main, which has a painting of Salome laying on her side, that he painted.
Some years later, I was at the only open restaurant there, looking for some of my ggfs paintings, and got to talk to a lady who knew my grandmother as they were chums.
She also informed me, that my ggf had painted a picture of the Main Street, with the Mercantile store in it. So Samuel painted a picture of his own artwork on that building! I had seen images of the building some time in the 80’s, but did not make the connection. My grandmother had lots of stories about Salome, where she danced!
Talk about a one horse 🐎 town stayed there 8 years ago at that motel when I went duck hunting on Alamo lake, interesting locals, would definitely visit again👍
What an amazing history i remember stopping there when i was a child
Amazing , all the old boom town stories.
Pass through Salome many times, to and from Bouse. Interesting facts I never knew. I will stop sometime and check it out. Thanks Steve
Really enjoy your videos. Thank you & keep up the good work.
You did a great job with this. Nice video great story.
Thanks.
I lived in Wickenburg as a kid and when traveling west we would always stop Sheffler’s cafe for breakfast. They had great food. We also had family from there, and Wenden also.
A very cool, chill adventure. Strange adjectives for such a hot place, but you know what I mean. ;)
Thanks Steve. Cheers.
Thanks again Steve! That Saguaro at 12:05 is a really good one
Thanks Steve you do an awesome job love your videos please keep doing these videos
Great stuff here. Adding this to my AZ list of stops. You really dug into the history on this one.
I don't know how you do it Steve, you take me into another world altogether.
And for that, I thank you!
Great timing! Just stumbled across this video after a road trip that took me from Joshua Tree NP East along Hwy 62, which was an amazing and unexpected experience. I was planning to go back to Tucson through Salome, but decided against it because I had promised my young son pizza, so we went by Quartzsite instead, down SR 95. I wondered what I missed by bypassing Salome, and here's your video! I just finished watching your Hwy 62 video as well. Great content!
I wonder if your son remembers the pizza.
I remember a family pizza.
How bad it was. 😂
@@redtobertshateshandles Outback Pizza in Quartzsite. It was so good we stopped by there twice - on both legs of our road trip.
Another great obscure history lesson!
Thanks! I really enjoyed this video.
Glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate all the support.
I sure love your style in putting these together, Steve! Been a fan for about a year.
Salome has always been a particular soft spot of mine, because soon after moving here to Phoenix as a kid in '72, I heard about Dick Wick Hall. (Ya, I was and am still, a weird reader/history kid!) At the time, it was still the road to L.A., and my parents and I traveled over fairly frequently.
Funny your choice of Salome popping up this week! Tuesday, my Facebook memories were filled with one of my now somewhat rare "gypsy days", which is the odd day every now and then, when I wake up and decide not to be everybody's Hot Rod builder/mechanic here in Phoenix, but decide to drive to a random spot on the Arizona map. That day, it was Salome, and it was five years ago. I did basically the same trip you did, with out the video camera, just my cell phone camera!
A cool little town, that unfortunately, there isn't much left of from the "glory days"...
Superb video as usual Steve! Thank you.👍
I just love this area of the country! Albeit a little on the warm side. It's beautiful & reasonably unpopulated. Your soundtrack is impeccable once again! Safe travels!👍🙏
Nice going on about my town, thanks Mike.
My family moved from LA County to Prescott, AZ. We would drive through those towns regularly for 10 years going to LA and home to Prescott. The fist time I saw that sign in Hope I had to stop and take a picture.
So much history, and so interesting . Driven thru Salome many times. Now I’m gonna stop and spend a bit of time .
Thank you. A very interesting video .
Love your videos, good information and photography, no hyperbole, thanx for your effort
Wish these videos will never end.
Dad took us there a few times on road trips. I remember him saying it was "Salome, where she danced". We both got a kick out of that name and I've always remembered it that way. Another great video. Go Padres!⚾️
If there is a gem in the southwest deserts of our country, Steve will find it. Great video! Thanks!
There's one thing I've learned from your fantastic adventures Steve. There was absolutely no shortage whatsoever of eccentric characters out west during that period when the pioneers had blazed the trails to California and the wild west was losing its reputation for wildness. I'm wondering if that was something those in between times civilization builders needed as part of their personality. As always, a fascinating trip along relatively recent memory lane.
Thanks!
Thanks for another great video. I have interest in the town as the scout troop I was in ate at a restaurant there in the early 1970s, on the way home from camping in the snow in Prescottt. I understand that the restaurant burnt down a few years later.
It was filled with taxidermy and had photos from a movie named "Salome, Where She Danced," starring Yvette Mimieux. I saw the movie on an LA station years later. Mimieux did a dance of 1000 veils for the grizzled miners of the town. They were so taken by the dance that they renamed the town after Mimieux's character's performance.
It wasn't until a few years after that, that I learned the true origin of the name.
Replying to my own comment as my phone won't let me edit. The actress in the movie is Yvonne Decarlo, not Mimieux.
Oh, and Steve, May I humbly suggest, Crown King, Agua Calliente, Bouse, Rock Springs, and even Phoenix's South Mountain park as future places to receive your touch...
Steve! This was a fun one!
I worked out there back in the late 70's...there wasnt much left of the town...I worked at a truck stop just down the road...
Thanks Steve, Nice work as always!
When we lived in The OC we enjoyed many of the desert areas but didn’t make it to this town so thank you for look
love your show Steve .. nice to see bright sunshine up here in north washington state 😎
Very pretty area to visit from November to May.
Steve thanks, I love your videos and stories done with your pleasant voice and manner. God bless you.
I appreciate the "gentle" music in the background! A lot of creators have their "music" so loud it's very distracting, but not yours. Thank you
Definitely never heard of that place. It was probably nice and quaint in its day. 👍☮️🌞🌵
I always drove thru here on my way up to prescott of pv last few years. Now i definitely am stopping to look around next trip
Great vid
Very interesting
Thank you, I really appreciate it.
I really enjoy these wanders you do into forgotten or rarely visited places. Thanks for sharing.
On the marker where the gas station use to be, there was a funny write-up under the picture of the gas station. Also, the poem of the frog was funny to read. I think it would have been a real pleasure to meet Dick Wick Hall. I like people with a sense of humor.
Thanks Steve! This one was fun!
What incredible history that I hope is never lost!
Great work, Desert Sojourner! Thank you!
Another great video, well thought out and interesting. Thank you.
Thank you for this video!
Another quaint town with a brief existence. But as is pointed out (in the Vedic and Buddhist traditions) everything with a beginning has an ending. Which evokes a tinge of sadness on viewing the remains of a bygone era.
Love your "lost" Arizona series. I cycled that length of US60 from Phoenix/Wickenburg/Vicksburg. Paid for water in Salome (1st time I ever had to do that) and camped out in the desert north of Vicksburg. This was about 6 years ago. Ain't too much to look at out there, even while cycling.
The shade under the tree in the pocket park looks inviting. Although simple, the bench is in a good spot. Who knows how many people have cooled off there while snakes stalked lizards among the cactus? Frogs need water, toads don't, so the "frog" may have really been a dry land toad. Does that motel have a swimming pool? Couldn't tell for sure. Is it still operating? The 9-11 memorial is intriguing. There must be some connection between that disastrous event in United States history and this small town. Too bad the longtime resident cactus can't tell us what the "stagecoach" building really is. Swallowing bacteria from his sixteen infected teeth may have contributed to his kidney issues. People don't realize how vitally important good oral hygiene is for internal organ health. Another great video. Thank you.
Very cool. I had no idea this place even existed. I'd love to check it out but until that might happen I have your excellent video. Thanks again
thanks, I drive through a few times a year, while all small towns in America have stories, this one is fascinating. and the Golf course and park are the only decent free bathroom and resting point between Prescott and Yuma, so we always stop there to "Stretch"
We always took this bypass to drive from Los Angeles to Phoenix to visit our grandparents. It was way more interesting than the 10! 😃
THANK YOU STEVE,,GREAT ADVENTURE AGAIN..SAFE TRAVELS ..
Always the most interesting videos on the internet thank you for the information and entertainment.