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.
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.....
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!
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.
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!!
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.
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'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!
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Thanks Steve. I went to school in Aguila 61-62 3rd grade. Salome was on the way to California in those days. Aguila played sports with Salome with a rivalry! Time flys. It was a long drive to Phx as I remember.
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!
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.
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 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.👻🎃🇺🇲
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 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.
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..
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.
This Dick Wick was the great grandfather of Richard Simmons. 😅
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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.
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!
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.
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 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!👍🙏
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.
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...
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.
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 .
Back before I10 was built I drove just passed Quartzsite onto 60 and up to Wickenburg then southward to Phoenix, just over 12 hours to drive from whittier,ca to Phoenix. Now it's a 5.5-6 hour drive with I 10 cut off.
Me too. I sort of lived in both Phoenix and Orange County before I-10 was built...a very long trip. Arizona was the last state to put in their part of I-10, I think it was in the early 70s when they finally did it. Did you know a guy names Steve Carle from Whittier?
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!⚾️
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.
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.
When I was a child, we often stopped to eat at Sheffler’s restaurant on our trips from Needles (and later Lake Havasu) to Phoenix and Tucson. The dining room walls were lined with stuffed animal heads. Mostly deer and other local game animals, but there was a walrus with big white tusks. All very fascinating to me and my brothers. The bar had stuffed waterfowl mounted on its walls. My mom always told us many stories about Salome, especially the frog with the canteen on his back. There was a painted concrete statue of the frog in front of the local bank near the restaurant.
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.
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.
STEVE IS LIKE A JULES VERNE HE IS SO FULL OF GOOD INFORMATION AND HE HAS A REALLY GOOD VOICE!
Thank you.
Dick Wick Hall's stories, especially the frog, remind me of Mark Twain.
Jules Verne? 🤔
@@garryferrington811 awesome writer
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
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!
What a colorful guy and town. Thanks for sharing…!
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.
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!!
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.
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 continue to enjoy Steve's "sidetrack adventures;" thanks, Steve, for your interesting sites!
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'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!
You bring history back to America love every video.
i love your adventures and how well you do your homework on the history of the areas you visit, keep up the great work.
What a great story, it makes me long for days of old. Dick must've been quite a character. May he rest in peace.
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.
no matter what , america's even ruins also has so much beauty in it .
america is so beautiful place .
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.
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.
"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.
Fascinating! Love the history of these old desert spots. Keep ‘em coming.
You are the best, Steve! Thank you for your wonderful stories
Thanks Steve for the upload. Have my breakfast ready and enjoying this episode!
Enjoy your breakfast.
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'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.
Thanks Steve. I went to school in Aguila 61-62 3rd grade. Salome was on the way to California in those days. Aguila played sports with Salome with a rivalry! Time flys. It was a long drive to Phx as I remember.
Thank you for another fascinating travelogue & mini-history lesson.
You are welcome.
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!
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.
Amazing , all the old boom town stories.
Good Tour and I really enjoy the History ..Thanks ....
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
Thanks again for another great look at the back roads of the Southwest.
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
Another great obscure history lesson!
You did a great job with this. Nice video great story.
Thanks.
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.👻🎃🇺🇲
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 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
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.
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..
What an amazing history i remember stopping there when i was a child
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!
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
Hall was definitely a funny man…thanks for telling us about him.
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.
A strange coincidence - @15:22 you show Dick Wick's Memorial. My mom was born the same day he died.
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.
"Dick Wick" sounds like what you change your name from, not to.
Monty Python would have had a field day. 😂
Probably had a different meaning a hundred years ago. I don't know that meaning is but I kinda like the modern interpretation. 😂
Be sure to stay at the Glory Hole Hotel.
atleast it isnt dick trickle, a nascar driver.
This Dick Wick was the great grandfather of Richard Simmons. 😅
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 🙏🙏🙏
Superb video as usual Steve! 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.
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!
Steve! This was a fun one!
Nice going on about my town, thanks Mike.
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.
Pass through Salome many times, to and from Bouse. Interesting facts I never knew. I will stop sometime and check it out. Thanks Steve
Wish these videos will never end.
Love your videos, good information and photography, no hyperbole, thanx for your effort
That section of 60 has so many crazy locations like the propane company.
Passmore Gas Company.
Sounds like a joke Hank Hill would make! ◕‿◕
Really enjoy your videos. Thank you & keep up the good work.
Another great video, well thought out and interesting. Thank you.
I love the low key and nicely researched videos. Thank you for the adventures, Steve.
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.
If there is a gem in the southwest deserts of our country, Steve will find it. Great video! Thanks!
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!👍🙏
A very cool, chill adventure. Strange adjectives for such a hot place, but you know what I mean. ;)
Thanks Steve. Cheers.
Great work, Desert Sojourner! Thank you!
What incredible history that I hope is never lost!
love your show Steve .. nice to see bright sunshine up here in north washington state 😎
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.
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...
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.
Steve thanks, I love your videos and stories done with your pleasant voice and manner. God bless you.
I loved this adventure. I always wait for your videos on Wednesday, keep them coming!
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 .
Thanks again Steve! That Saguaro at 12:05 is a really good one
Back before I10 was built I drove just passed Quartzsite onto 60 and up to Wickenburg then southward to Phoenix, just over 12 hours to drive from whittier,ca to Phoenix. Now it's a 5.5-6 hour drive with I 10 cut off.
That's a huge difference.
Me too. I sort of lived in both Phoenix and Orange County before I-10 was built...a very long trip. Arizona was the last state to put in their part of I-10, I think it was in the early 70s when they finally did it. Did you know a guy names Steve Carle from Whittier?
Imagine using a 4- mule wagon team. .it was a MONTH to make the traverse from Banning, CA to Wickenburg.
Gas station before the road!!? CRAZEEEEE!!!🤪
Thanks Steve.
Have been watching for awhile.
Thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated.
My college roommates; sister eloped to Yuma, Az. when she was 14. Became a grandmother at 30.
The apple didn't fall far from the tree
I knew a lady (married) with a bunch of kids and then a grandchild older than her last kid. Maybe not that unusual back in the days of large families.
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
THANK YOU STEVE,,GREAT ADVENTURE AGAIN..SAFE TRAVELS ..
Always the most interesting videos on the internet thank you for the information and entertainment.
I really enjoy these wanders you do into forgotten or rarely visited places. Thanks for sharing.
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!⚾️
We always took this bypass to drive from Los Angeles to Phoenix to visit our grandparents. It was way more interesting than the 10! 😃
I really enjoyed this video. This is history with great story telling! Great work! ❤
Another interesting tale in the can! Thanks.
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.
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...
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.
drove in here for 30 years and missed all this...good to see
When I was a child, we often stopped to eat at Sheffler’s restaurant on our trips from Needles (and later Lake Havasu) to Phoenix and Tucson. The dining room walls were lined with stuffed animal heads. Mostly deer and other local game animals, but there was a walrus with big white tusks. All very fascinating to me and my brothers. The bar had stuffed waterfowl mounted on its walls. My mom always told us many stories about Salome, especially the frog with the canteen on his back. There was a painted concrete statue of the frog in front of the local bank near the restaurant.
Just wandered around that town a couple weeks ago !! Interesting place.