Oatman, Arizona - Attempt Uploads At Your Own Risk

Along the nearly abandoned Mother Road, Route 66, in downtown Oatman, Arizona.

Loyal customers line up for... for... I don't know what they want. Word is these donkeys, or asses, or burros, as they are known locally, were used by miners a century ago. The animals were set free or escaped, and have been living wild in the city and surrounding hills ever since.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-walkingroute66,0,1597087.story

An old work truck on the hillside. Not much has happened here in the past 50 years, except tourism and the occasional visit by a celebrity, or a famous arrest happens ( see OK City bomber: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/13/us/terror-in-oklahoma-the-overview-bomb-inquiry-leads-to-arrest-of-biochemist.html?pagewanted=all ). There used to be about 4,000 folks in town after a couple of dudes kicked open a $1M gold mine one afternoon in 1915, but now about 100 people live here.

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