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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, 1971 AUGUST-SEPTEMBE- 7 Owl Cafe Elost Got site1 by Tim SLClair EILUETNIS Are you sure thats it? queried my friend. Pretty sure, I replied as we squinted past the dashboard glare into the deep blue distance. Weve been by the Beowawe turn off and through Dunphy. Thats the next thing on the map. IOh,no. No, that cant be it," UTAH'S LARGEST SELECTION OF MAJOR BRAND STAMP SUPPLIES -- comrade in his most bedraggled tone. Just thenapaasing billboard legitimized our apprehension. Eat at the Owl Care in Battle Mountain; nine miles. The tiny spillage of lights we had spotted miles ago on the valley floor had seemingly diminished with our approach. We had come to Battle Mountain to wort for the summer. We had set out to said my OVER 300 COUNTRIES IN STOCK UP TO 20 LET US KNOW YOUR NEEDS become summertime fortune hunters and had often wondered where the wheel of fate would steer us. Nevada had always had a slid yet earthy allure. Somehow though, the neon magnetism of the postcards from Las Vegas I had aeen had lost their power with the sight of Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820. We dipped into town at about 4: 30 a.m. on a Sunday morning in early June. We landed in the middle of the previous nights carnage of broken beer bottles. This par ticuiar day the remnants of Suur-da-y night not only lingered but thrived on. The annual Battle Mountain Rodeo had ripped itself off the June calendar the night before. This boosted the number of cowboys in town considerably. As a result, the quota of fighting, drinking and gambling swellM proportionately. The Battle Mountain Rodeo is usually the first scheduled rodeo of the season in Nevada. This fact automatically results in a series of succeeding events not uncommon to the Hollywood cinema. Some of the ensuing episodes would have put John Wayne and his cronies to shame. Unfortunately, we arrived too late to observe the fisticuffs. We had apparently missed a hell of a fight. Rodeo contestants, observand the local citiers, passers-bzenry all participated to keep the rich tradition of the Battle Mountain Rodeo untainted and DISCOUNT ON MOST SUPPLIES Auujfti Barbecued Track of sausage, hadi browns and whiskey. Small gatherings of cowboys and their girls hunched toward each other in the various booths and tables. To my astonUiment. not one of the throng looked as if he or she had been up ail night, much less involved in fighting, drinking and general carousing. As a matter or fact, every one of them looked quite refreshed. As Loretta Lynn twanged in the background, the dot machines whirred, the Blackjack dealers dealt, and the whiskey sours flowed, they ail looked ready to begin anew. I glanced around again and headed for the door. I pondered what I had just witnessed. My companion and I had unwittingly stumbled onto true supermen. Others would surely be flat out in bed after having been through half of what these people had been through. Yet there they were, prepared to put in another Westbound freighter carrying fifty tons of spare ribs caught fire thirty miles west of Knolls, Utah. A late reaching report attributed to a passing motorist that preferred to remain unidentified states that scores of hippies had descended to feast upon the spoils of Kansas City. (How sweet it wat) TREASURE (CHEST 4701 Holladay Blvd. (23rd East) Salt Laka City, Utah 84117 Phone 278-484- 8 From Relics To Reol Estate rc. Sell shUL it With Not being of such stern stock, and I drove up Front Sheet a few blocks to seek slumber. Still somewhat stunned, I Note interesting similarity structured undercarriage to spareribs. lowered my eyelids to rest The shock of our discovery left me un- Reno, followed abruptly by a able to deep. A few moments string of unprintable dienes. The WORLDS MOST cowboy gazed, motionless after later I heard a boot heel sera a car for half the minute, nearly the asphalt of U. S. 40 adjacent FAMOUS NAME over, spread-eagl- e us. I peered out of the car to see a on the highway. remarkably soused cowboy weavnotorious. center-stri- p of the Wdl, it seemed this tribe of By the time we got there the ing up the N CAMSHAFTS dust had settled on the dirt park- road. Manure was caked to his cowboys wasnt super-huma- n enlevis that after all. At least one of their ing lot of the rodeo grounds. The boots and to the d number was still vulnerable to the first hint of morning brought gulfed them. He had a that white shirt on that pitfalls of merry-makin-g forth the totality of Saturday which nave plagued mankind for ages. of the stains, origin sported leathin town. Levied and night Hair Having thus been reassured of the ery cowboys filed into the Owl taxed the imagination. 16020 S. BROADWAY d Club with their sprouted out from under the tall, reality of Battle Mountain, 1 straw hat he proudly displayed. dosed my eyes and slept quite friends. Others swaggered GARDENA, CAL. 90247 distant roll of an soundly. The not-to- o the Nevada Hotel. I assumed had retreated to lick their wou approaching car made him whirl and down their around and begin waving his hat. LARSEN-CUMMIN- S I pushed open the aluminum-flame- d It wasa futile effort to negotiate a MOON CAMMED-STREAMUNEThe ride to Owl door of the glass Club. My senses were Immedi- car charitably swerved to mbs the MOON CAM AND VALVE GEAR ately assaulted by a combination cowboy and whizzed by toward A NEWS Ad my friend y then-topple- long-sleeve- hair-tease- -- Alka-Sdtze- r. - THE HORSEPOWER HEART WINNER OF A FULLERTON MUFFLER SHOP 7f you can't fix it with this ON THE SALT, IN THE SAND, call LAmbert 5-52- 12 1821 W. Commonwealth Fullerton, California ' MOON EQUIPMENT COMPANY ON THE OVAL, OR IN THE WATER NOTHING COMPARES IN SPEED OR RACING WITH - 10820 So. Norwalk Blvd., Santa Fe Springs 50, California |