Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Rainy Days and Sick Days


We haven’t done much the last couple of days… Its been cool-ish, and rainy, and I’ve been fighting some kind of stomach bug.  I woke up this morning finally feeling almost human again.  It was raining again this morning, but this afternoon it’s supposed to clear off, so we’re going to go wander around Tombstone again. 

Saturday night we decided to take in some live music.  We started out thinking we’d go to Big Nose Kate’s, as we knew they had live music, but wandered into a couple of other places instead.

The first one was the Four Deuces Saloon.  The history of this building is kind of interesting.  It used to be in a different location in town.  The woman who lived there was a seamstress, and had a perfect view of the events of the Gunfight at the OK Corral.  As it turned out, though, she was fairly nearsighted, and also ran to the back of the house when the fight started, so she was not a reliable witness.

The Crystal Palace was the other place we went to.  It was first known as the Golden Eagle Brewing Company, and was one of Tombstone’s first saloons.  A fire in 1882 destroyed the building, but it was quickly rebuilt and renamed the Crystal Palace.  It was also, over the years, a Greyhound bus station, a warehouse, and a movie theater.  These changes came about due to Prohibition.  Once Prohibition was repealed, it became a bar again, and in the 1960's, was restored to its former glory.


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We decided to go see the Gunfight at the OK Corral this afternoon.  It was a fun show, and your ticket lets you wander through some other buildings that show life at that time... The photographer's studio, and a lot of his work, blacksmith's shop, a "crib" (establishment for a "Soiled Dove"), and several examples of transportation of the time.  It also gave us a ticket to see a combination film/diorama display about the history of Tombstone.
Mannequin display at the actual gunfight site.
Driving a buckboard!
Our Gunfight tickets also got us a couple of different replica copies of the Epitaph from the time of the fight.
It was a good afternoon, but enough for me after not eating much the last couple of days... Hopefully I'll be back to 100% soon!























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