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A visit to an unusual bookstore in Quartzsite, Arizona. When I arrived, Paul was outside, going through a stack of books to price them. He also wraps every book in the store in a plastic bag. This is probably necessary because the area is very dusty and windy, but I didn't like the bagging, because it was harder to browse the books. Here is a video of Paul playing boogie boogie musicon the piano in the middle of the store. The store is a visual, treat, with lots of ephemera on the walls. The price for vintage paperbacks ran from $3 to $10, which isn't bad. Here's the humor section. This part of the bookstore is a trailer attached to the main building. The Customer Convenience Cottage in the parking lot was very clean! As usual, I scooped up every 1960s children's science book I could find. Bonus! I really wanted to by a cast iron skillet here, but my wife didn't want a used skillet.

She was OK with letting me buy this Wagnerware Magnalite 4133M-Sidney water kettle designed by Gordon Rideout, though! I liked the hand lettered signs, though! Grand Canyon National Park. This Is What It’s Like to Work at the Most Haunted Bar in America. I’ve been working at Earnestine & Hazel’s for 13 years, yes ma’am.

If you ever come in, I’ll still be here. I’m like a fixture on the wall here. I started working here at the end of 2001. I love it. To be honest with you, when I’m at work, I don’t really like talking about this stuff. The Earnestine & Hazel’s building originated in the late 1800s, when it was built as a church. Earnestine and Hazel, who were sisters, came here in the mid-1950s, and then Russell George reopened it in St. One time, my coworker and I were talking about James Brown on the day that he died. I never went here except one time before I started working here. Weird stuff happens here all the time, though. I heard through the grapevine—though I’m not sure if it’s true—that some of the prostitutes were killed upstairs. I feel like whatever’s in here will take care of me because I’ve been here so long, I respect the place. It’s real weird. Sometimes you can take pictures and you can see faces in the walls. Elvis Presley - Graceland Memphis TN - Home of Elvis Presley.

Locations | DeLorean Motor Company. Film locations for Beetlejuice (1988) Madonna Inn - Landmark resort hotel on California's Central Coast. Home - The Holy Land Experience. Coming Soon: A Wes Anderson Theme Park?