Rhyolite Ghost Town and Goldwell Open Air Art Museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- I thought this ghost town was lame because it's right off a paved road, only 90 minutes from Vegas, and is usually kinda crowded (for a ghost town)...but it turned out to be SUPER COOL!
Rhyolite was a gold mining town. I was in Rhyolite in the late 70’s before everything was fenced off. There was a funky ol corrugated tin type Quonset hut just as you came into Rhyolite where an old desert rat had a sort of museum full from top to bottom with desert finds that you could wander around in and he said he was still prospecting for gold in the hills around there. He showed me a cigar box about half-full of rocks with gold matrix in them. Super interesting, I spent the better part of a day bullshiting with the old dude (he told me he was 92) and looking at his cool stuff and listening to his stories about a lot of it. Priceless memories!
There was also a little town across the road heading toward Death Valley called Bullfrog; the only thing left there was part of an old ice house storage where they stored ice that they brought in by train for the summer months.
Have you ever been to the Armargosa Opera House?
Freethought The Amargosa opera house is amazing? I saw it in the early 1980s
1905.....originally started as a two-tent mining camp soon boomed to an estimated 5,000 people within six short months. Just as if the town literally sprung up over night, by this time Rhyolite already had 50 saloons, 35 gambling tables, 19 lodging houses, 16 restaurants, several barbers, a public bath house, and the Rhyolite Herald-a weekly newspaper publication. Also, four daily stagecoaches
And a mess of highway robbers too I'd bet?
Wow! What great insight!
Another great/fun video. The small snakes blow their whole load! Haha! Love your sense of humor!
it;s true though!
I enjoyed your video of the Rhyolite ghost town on the afternoon of May 4 . Later that night I was watching the GRIT channel. When the show Death Valley Days came on & The episode I watched was about the town of Rhyolite, NV !!! Fact is stranger than fiction !!! LOL !!!
Another great tour. I was looking for Rattlers more than you were! Rhyolite is an interesting mineral. Great to have your huge fan base do the research for you! '62 Impala I think. Needs work! Keep those fancy hiker boots in the truck please. Amazing that those sculptures have lasted 35+ years. There must be many tunnels in the mountain in the distance.
WH, I loved the video. This is why I come here. I love your observations, you don't need to research a place, though I love that too. Watching your videos is like taking a 10 year old to Disneyland for the first time. You enjoy seeing someone else learn a place. It is your fascination with these places that make the videos compelling. We get to share in your joy. As for ever being in the desert without proper footing or water, as an old desert rat, emphasis on old, I just don't believe in ever taking the desert for granted.
I love the walls made with glass bottles! So cool!
Wow another great Video ! Your cellphone does a better job with video quality than you go pro ! Keep up the good work !
Good to see Rhyolite again, and hear your take on it. I visited in 2001 with my sock monkey, who posed for photos with some of the sculptures. If I can dig up the link for my old online album I'll pass it along to you.
I could watch you for hours. Oh……wait a minute, I have been.
You do a great job you make them fun to watch and your not hard to look at also keep up the good work !!!
husband speaking Sarah, I just watched the other Sarah's little video of Rhyolite . Also interesting on seeing one of your old videos
and compare your video technique. nice.
Long-time viewer, surely saw this when you made it, and clearly remember seeing the later "rose" video you made there. This time, I had been researching the defunct/removed railroad lines from Vegas to Tonopah, got sidetracked into Rhyolite history, and figured I ought to revisit your old take on it here. So I just Googled Wonderhussy Rhyolite, and there you were, as certain to have good info about it as Wikipedia. Better, actually, being first-hand research!
Pretty trippy watching straight lines go all wavy with in the old GoPro footage here until its battery died. So, maybe what is historic about this video is that it showed the legendary SJ/WH that GoPro footage sucks, and to just use a phone camera.
You should check out the last supper and the other "ghost" figures at night. Very interesting. The impressive building (3 story) is the ruins of the Thomas Cook bank. It is one of the most photographed images of western ghost towns. The Porters was indeed a general store. The 2 story building in the distance is actually the school. Check out Stanley Paher's Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps.
Awesome as always..love your stuff..its so refreshing..love the way you delve into stuff
Have you watched the National Geographic TV Special "The Great Mojave Desert"? It first aired in 1971 but was filmed in 1969, it features many of the spots you visited, like the bottle house. Interestingly production was cut short when the Tate-LaBianca murders happened and the film crew went to Los Angeles to cover the murders.
I stopped at Rhyolite 2 weeks ago. I drove past it but said why not, and turned around. I'm glad I did.
the mercantile was a wood building right by the bottle house, but it was struck by lightening a couple years ago and burned down.
Yeah, we're going fulltime traveling as soon as my wife recovers from her hip operation. I went to get a haircut the other day because all the barber shops had been closed for Coronavirus and it was really long. I wanted a more up to date cut like a fade on the sides with a little on top, kind of like a modified Mohawk. I asked the lady what she thought of me dying it blonde just for the fun of it. She said, "Oh, no, you've got beautiful silver hair. People are dying their hair this color nowadays." So I left it gray. That blonde statue of blocks reminded me of the artwork in that video for "I Want My MTV." The West is ultimate freedom and that's why I generally don't go east of the Mississippi River, although I spent a lot of time in the midwest and east when I was younger, all over New England. Too many bluebloods in Boston.
Rhyolite was one of the few towns built to last in the mining era. There were 7 railroads to get the ore, gold was the main one, the area was called the Bullfrog Mining District. Bullfrog is next door but not much left there. In 1905 or so there were 10,000 living there by 1911 less than a hundred and dwindled down after that. There were cement buildings bank, stores and the school. The Friends of Rhyolite also have an annual event or used to. It is a favorite town of many folks despite its ease of access. Gold Point is interesting too and I believe privately owned.
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Yes, built as a substantial town, then abandoned for new gold strikes, the story repeats often there. I was a member of The Friends of Rhyolite group at one time. The town was under threat of new mining as some had been discovered deep in that area, 1990's. Someone made the open pits across the road going out there for the cyanide leaching step in the gold extraction process, I was told. Just a few miles away is Bullfrog, there used to be a store there. An old couple lived there ran the store and rode dune buggies around for fun, there was a spring so they had water. There also used to be a cemetery near one of these towns. It is an enjoyable and historic spot for anyone to make.
We were there back in the mid 70s. Still looks the same, except for all the chain link fences. The building you thought might be the jail was just that. Thanks again for the great video. A photo shoot would be perfect for you standing in the doorway of the bank during sunset, what a silhouette that would make!
Love ya... UR natural narrator n Explorer
You would love Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, in LA. Get some BBQ nearby and get out before 2PM, that's when the crackheads and drug dealers awaken from the previous night's festivities. Another great video, thanks for the Hussification on Rhyolite.
Miner bird? V nice vid, thanks for sharing.
anotherblonde coal miners tapped canaries to their shoulder bird dies get the hell out of the mine
Joe Rowland I just commented this on another one of her mind exploration videos great minds think alike bro👌
Visited Rhyolite back in the 80's. The cool railroad depot wasn't fenced off then because someone lived in it. Those ruins at 6:55 were indeed a bank if my memory is correct.
At 3:10, you say "wonder what this was"--that was a brothel! And at 5:26, that is indeed Rhyolite's jail. 7:17, that was the Cook Bank, 8:50 that was indeed a store (the Porter Brothers Store. Rhyolite Mercantile store burned down 2 years ago), and at 9:14 that was Rhyolite School.
Sweet insights!
I love when the audience leaves extra info in the comments. So interesting.
Your telephone has a better picture. You crack me up. Thank you , Craig in Alabama.
Wonder Hussy, I'm happy to hear you don't have grey hair yet. Thank you for checking out the old caboose. Looks like it could be a great little home.
That's the coolest bottle house indeed,wowed by the mnemonic features,so cool
Hey! Your hair is Grey! LOL. The places you visit trip me out. I always get taken back to the time when these places were bustling. Your shoots also inspire me to almost break past my procrastination... I've really got to start recording my short adventures around here. :)
I like the art installations. I honeymooned in DValley almost 40 years ago. I have been going to the southwest deserts for the past 20 summers. I'm still teaching so I can only go in the summer. I do prefer the heat to the cold. I , too, luv to go hiking alone and clothes do eventually come off when it's warm. I do like to find a cool river to dip into.
Rhyolite is so cool. I went through there in the 1980s
I was at Rhyolite in the 60's as a kid. No fences back then.
you always go to neat places. but your voice make makes it so much more Interesting. thanx.
Nice town and good story telling, wonder
I see the treasure hunters have been in there tearing up the floors looking for
pocket change. BTW, I love your enthusiastic approach when you explore
new places. Nice personality trait :-D Regards, Ody Slim
I worked at stovepipe Wells for a year back in 2000. we used to go I to Beatty to get crunk. passed by dozens of time but never stopped. cool video
Another great video. The building you thought was a bank was the Cook bank building. The caboose was a gas station, and the building you thought was a hotel was the school.
SJ, you should be listed as a national treasure!
Thanks for the tour. I've been wanting to see it for a while.
So this is where started using your phone to shoot, nice. In all my hiking excursions I’ve only come across a rattlesnake one time. You ever have a close call or bite from a rattlesnake?
Hey Wonder Hussy...another great video as usual, you make me want to get out there and start xploring! I'm curious how those new Hoka hiking boots are working out for you? I was thinking of ordering a pair but heard most of their models tend to run a half size small, (eventhough they've supposedly addressed this issue with a larger toebox on some of their newer models). Have you broken them in yet and would you recommend going up a half size? I have long toes as well
Hussy, You are amazing. can You explore Indian Springs.......area ?
The open air sculptures are gorgeous. Paul said Nicki come and see those they look like your art. True they are cubic like my own art work. Very neat. Your videos are royal Sarah. You are very educated and culturally informed and your videos bring art to the world I also like the music you use. Makes me feel good to see you so happy and invigorated and not fearful as I am. I'm always so afraid to go places particularly in one vehicle. Paul is urging me to go to the hot springs. But I want to ask you and the other hot spring enthusiasts if you could join us because it's safer in a group. I will email you next.
The 'town' of Beatty is a dusty oasis. Watch out for stop signs and speed limits. Love the sisters gas station. Interesting video Lady Wonder; thank you.
I've been here! It is so incredible! Wish we could have gotten into the old casino! Is says casino on the side.very cool!
Trippiest intro music 👍
Earth ship house construction uses bottles, cans and concrete like that. If you haven't done it yet, go to Taos NM for a tour of them, it's called Greater World Community. Mike Reynolds is the guy who has done most of the work to develop these type of unconventional fully self sustaining homes. Love to watch and listen to your positive attitude, and adventures. Thank you.
That barred building may have been the explosives store (magazine). There is a small one from the 1800s in the town I used to live in, Cooktown in Far North Queensland Australia. The magazine in Cooktown had barred windows and a heavy door too. They were fortified to prevent miners from stealing the explosives powder. Of course, if it was a Gold/Silver area, it could have been the assay building, where the Gold was stored.
Someone tagged me on one of ur Instagram posts... So I watched some of ur videos, cool channel! Keep exploring!
I wish I could get there! Looks awesome!
Love that place!
Do a new video Sarah,I really look forward to your videos.Winter has gripped the NE,And always cool to see you out in the Desert exploring..TY883s
Previous comment reminded me of Mark Twain. " 50 saloons, 30 brothels, and some talk about buildin' a church."
I think your phone has better color, and more clarity.
The broken tile style was a mid-century method to do Kitchen countertops in Florida, for people who wanted a cheap, yet pop art effect in the home. The broken random tiles allowed infinite expression. First thing I saw in the cinder block Venus was M.Monroe
WAY cool W H !
7:37 the building looks surprised 😲
The image quality from your cellphone is waaaaay better than that of your Go Pro, whose jitteriness tends to make me feel sick.
This video is old and was made while she was still kind of in experimental mode. She learned real quick to use her cell phone and she also bought a special mic with a fluffy windscreen and hand held unipod/tripod. Her editing has improved tremendously as well. Check out her newer videos.
@@jazzcatt Thanks for letting me know the situation. You're right, she has learned real quick, and her later stuff is beautiful and well edited. She's quite an amazing person!
@@zantigar If you haven't found some of her other videos giving some of her history, you might want to see them. The girl has worked at some rather, shall I say, unusual jobs, but she has done well. Now she is doing nothing but TH-cam videos, and she loves it.
Was there about five years ago, nice to see it's still intact
Oh, and Happy Easter Sarah :).
You were correct in your guesses. Yes that was the bank and yes that was the vault. Yes that was a merchantile. Not so sure about the "jail" building with the bars on it. I heard they were going to restore the old train station with the fence around it. I don't remember that fence being there though. Your cell phone works much better than your gopro... Much better picture and sound. That circular rock art thing is called a geoglyph...
Thanks, always wanted to see that place.
Um , did you notice the bear or some kind of animal run behind the van ! 😱
Hey W.H. another really good video. You are a very neat person.
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LOL "...walkin' down main street, feelin' like a giant". Thanks Wonder Hussey, cracking me up again. I haven't kept up with videos in a while; been beat up by life lately and a bit down. Too many things have stacked up to take care of so I'm not out there exploring like I was a year ago. I guess it will take some time.
Nice job off the cuff. So sorry I missed you in my back yard. I might've been able to answer your questions. You skipped the Red Barn and the cemetery. Also, Szukalski's models were people from Beatty that he knew from living here.
I live in an old apartment building in SO CAL built in the 40-or 50 s the land lords had to replace 3 shear walls to keep it up to code. That sucked.......... but In the process they found probably 30 or 40 old booze bottles in the walls . so they had some fun building this place....... NOT as old as the stuff in this video...........
The guy that built the house made those beautiful aren't they?
excellent adventure
thanks for sharing W.H.
A rattlesnake bite will cost #25.000 to get the anti venom to get fixed a hospital.Love all ur vids
like beetlejuice with the scale model town set up .
trippy place. love it!
I know what you mean. I like old places and ghost towns, but not stuff where there are signs or where everyone can go. still a cool place.
cool ghost town sarah jane, don't be embarrassed about grey hair, it happens to all of us 😉😋👍
Enjoying the videos!
Hey Wonder Hussy! wow another awesome video, if I have time during a visit to my Brothers place in Vegas. we might check this place out! So, Wonder Hussy are you excited for the movie staring a long lost Auntie of yours "Wonder Woman!" okay now u gotta LOL...!
No metal detector at the ruins?
Correction the baby rattlesnakes cannot control the amount of venom they release as the adults as well as the babies have more concentrated venom which makes it more potent which makes them much more dangerous.
seems that Disney is still trying to expand into other areas
Great video as always
Have you ever been out to Devils Hole?
the building at the "prospering businesses" sign was the bank.
The Rhyolite “bottle house”is not unique, although it was done much earlier than the one that is found to be an “ earth ship” in another of your videos. I wonder if the guy who built the bottle house “earth ship “ knew about the one in Rhyolite ?
That was a cool place!!!
Heavy metal doors were probably banks. I did no see any gray hairs on your head. Only the sunlight lighting strands as yo walked along. I like your videos.
Thought I recognized some buildings. The place was a film site for The Island.
I have been trying to buy a caboose for 15 years to build into an apartment/cabin. Keep an eye out for me.
High Watch there used to be a HUGE junkyard outside of Huntsville Alabama dont know if it is still there but they had literally everthing planes cars boats submarines and a train engine. If they are still there that might be a start for your search even if transport is an issue as they may have contacts
Thank you, I will try to find them.
High Watch you are quite welcome
High Watch hey update for you go online and search ozark mountain rail car in missouri lots of cabooses 10 grand and up bored and did a search for you
I'm the artist who created the scaled down replica of the city feel free to take what you want😆
Thaks Wondering Wonder Hussy, I did not realize it was close to a highway, too bad.
cool video
Know you don't watch much tv but on Amazing Race they made those type of figures for the last supper in the game.
cool skull bracelet!
If I come again to Vegas , would like to CHECK YOU OUT 😍
I heard you can find amethyst. Near there does any one know where to look
The last supper piece that was staring at a man or waiter was what you thought I think 8s meant to be Davinci the artist who painted the original last supper
My hair is really not gray, just putting that out there from the get go. lol.
Regarding the Bottle house-exposure to the sun turns glass purple-the managanese in the glass does it.
+Ad Mirer very interesting! I didn't know that
Nice vid
Awesome!!!
4:30 if they bite you, they blow they're whole load lol. That is one way to put it lol
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supercool stuff!