Signage

The other night Jon wanted to get out of the house. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do, but just that he didn't want to be home. I agreed so we jumped in the car and I started to drive. Granted it was pretty late in the evening to take a random road trip, but I am always game. Jon's brother had mentioned that we should see Coalville, if we hadn't already since we like interesting old buildings. So, that's where I headed.

We got to Coalville, drove down the main street and just kept driving to see where the road would take us. We drove around Echo Reservoir, which was pretty cool at night. Plus it was slightly stormy so the sky was full of cool clouds. I didn't really get any pictures since I was driving.

But we did end up driving into the town of Echo and came across these two spots. We stopped and I took a couple of quick pictures.

We continued to driving around the area, but by this time it was getting super dark and we really didn't know where we were. Thanks to the iphone blue dot, we quickly got our barrings and headed home.

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I took this picture the other day of a building at one of the locations Jon did a photo shoot. I was really drawn to the sign on the front and that the wood was so weathered.

Club Ed

I've MIA and super busy lately, so I am trying to catch up on some of the posts I have been meaning to get done, but just haven't had time to get to.

Over the weekend of my birthday Jon and I went to California. The trip wasn't primarily for my birthday, but it was nice to get out of town. The trip was originally going to take place a few weekends prior, but there were scheduling issues. The plan was intended to go pick up some car parts and new wheels for Lucy (1962 Mercury Comet).

This is Lucy's before picture.

Here's Lucy with her new wheels and tires.


I have a fascination with ghost and old towns. Over time I think this has rubbed off on Jon. Club Ed is actually a movie set, located in Lancaster CA. It was originally built in 1990 for the movie Eye of the Storm. After filming the movie, they decided the set was too cool to tear down. It's described as an "outpost of classic Americana". We decided to drive out to it and take a look. Unfortunately, it's closed to the public so you can only take pictures from the road, but here are a few shots we got.





It's a pretty awesome place. I wish we could have gone in. There was a caretaker there, who we saw and he hid behind some of the buildings watching us. It didn't seem like he would be the type of guy to let us in to take a look around, since he didn't even want us to know he was there. The Club Ed website talks about the location and shows additional shots of the set including the interior of the buildings and the swimming pool located behind the inn.

Roadtrip - Jamestown Wyoming

Jon and I recently took a roadtrip into Wyoming to look at a truck Jon was interested in buying. Before taking a roadtrip I like to look up the route on google maps and then check a few different websites. I like to see if any of the towns we might pass by are ghost towns or have cool points of interest. One of the towns we passed through on our adventure was Jamestown. There wasn't a lot of buildings of interest; but this one really stuck out, so we spend some time taking pictures. Jon with his professional DSLR and me with my point and shoot. yay.

The following are *my* pictures.

Bad Luck

I've had a little streak of bad luck lately. Slicing my finger open and having to get stitches and then on Saturday, Lucy (the car) broke down while we were on our way to a car show in Price. We can be lucky it broke down before we made it far considering Price is a couple hour drive from here, but she happened to break down on the freeway. Of course I am know you are thinking, that's not too bad of luck Bekah. Well.. where we broke down on the freeway they were doing construction and there happened to be no emergency lane!

I am going to spare the details because I don't really want to talk about it since it's now over and done with. But I am just going to say it really sucked.

We did have to leave Lucy behind on Saturday and go the rest of the way to Price without her. We had a good time at the car show and Lucy got towed home on Sunday.

I hear that bad luck comes in groups of three. I am just nervous for what's coming up next.

PS. Thanks Dad for the ride. You're a life saver.

Fireworks, First aid and Food

Oh boy what a holiday weekend it was. I managed to start the weekend off just right while injuring myself during a craft project. Unfortunately, I couldn't have done something simple like burn myself with the glue gun. Instead I managed to cut open my index finger with a very sharp pair of scissors. This injury, although a clean cut, was deep and began to bleed profusely. Thankfully Jon was nice enough to drive me to the hospital and reminded me to keep my hand above my heart to limit the blood loss.

Being the evening of the 4th of July the emergency room was very empty. I was expecting there to be people waiting who had blown off a finger playing irresponsibly with fireworks. Nope, just me, the girl who cut herself with scissors.

After quite the ordeal to get my finger numbed so they could stitch me up, I got three stitches.


After the stitches they wrapped me up in a split that I get to sport for at least a week. This is because, once again, I had to make things difficult and cut my finger near the joint and in order to heal I can't bend it. This splinted finger has resulted in many jokes on my behalf from Jon and my coworkers.


The whole weekend was not all tragedy though. On Saturday Jon, his brother Jason and I all went to a new restaurant that opened on Oakley Utah. This isn't just any old restaurant, it's an original classic diner. This diner was originally manufactured in 1939 in Elizabeth New Jersey. It began it's restaurant life in Fall River, Mass. until 1953 when it was sold and moved to Middletown, Rhode Island. There it operated until 2006. Oakley Utah was then picked as the new home for the diner and it was transported cross country here to Utah.

It's a great little place and has great food. There is a very retro vintage style to the diner, but also has modern conveniences such as air conditioning and remote jukeboxes. The jukeboxes weren't up and running yet when we where there but they were cool non the less. They also make their own potato chips, which I thought were amazing. If you go there to eat, definitely get the chips.


For those I didn't get to personally say Happy 4th to, I hope you all had a festive holiday weekend!

Jerome, Arizona

I have a fascination with ghost towns - beit completely deserted or still lived in - I love them the same. Sometimes the ones people live in are much better than the completely deserted because the buildings aren't completely demolished.

Maybe it was the first time my Grandma Scott took my family up to Jerome and into the kaleidescope store that I first fell in love with this town. I can't remember for sure. But, it's a great town. It's built way up on the mountainside. There is barely room for roads let alone the houses that hang over the edges of the mountain side. Mining operations began in this town in 1883, but due to the depression and changing costs of copper the mines were closed in 1953.



During the 60s and 70s artists (or as the locals tell it "the hippies") moved in and began to live in the houses. Many of the houses are falling down, but far more have been restored and are home to the residents.



The main road veers to the right at one point and leads you up to the Gold King Mine & Ghost Town. The guy who owns and operations this museum per say has an unbelievable amount of stuff. There is a working Sawmill that is huge. I believe it was $4 per person and we got to walk around and look at all of the different machinery, vehicles, and shacks full of all sorts of relics.




The museum also has several various animals running around - goats, chickens and a donkey. :)



Finally - here are a couple other pictures I took of metal gates. I was just inspired by them that day.

Roadtrip

Over President's Weekend Jon and I decided to take a roadtrip to Arizona. We were hoping to escape the mountains of snow and cold for a few days. However, since we decided to drive we had a little ways to go until we made it out of Utah.



While driving we decided that we are old souls. This is because we like to take the scenic route and love to stop and find old buildings or other interesting things.



While we were driving we encountered these super birds. I swear they are the size of Zee. I was feeding them teddy grahams so that I could take their picture. The rest of the trip whenever we saw one we joked that they heard we were handing out teddy grahams.



Once we made it to Flagstaff we were surprised to find that we were caught in a snow storm. So much for avoiding the snow. We did endure and most of our time was spent in Sedona and Jerome, where the weather was sunny but definitely jacket weather. My next post will have pictures from Jerome.

On the way home we took US 89 and decided that we would investigate all of the little towns for old cars. By this time my digital camera was full, since I had forgotten to take old pictures off it before we left. But I was able to make enough space to take this picture of Jon stuck in the snow.