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12/30/11

Holbrook Visit

On the road to the Lone and Dreary Wilderness…I mean to Holbrook Arizona!
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The Pow Wow where our favorite place to visit.  I can remember riding bikes to the Pow Wow to buy candy rings and Pop Rocks to snack on!
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1st Stop – at the El Rancho…of course!  It was our favorite and one of the only places to eat in town!
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Photos of the old Homestead!  806 N. 7th Street…what memories we have of this ‘ole house!!!
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Looking out to the City Park from the front of the house.  We spent many a hour at that park when we were little!
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And who could ever forget ‘the ditch’??!!!  I remember being brave enough to jump off that thing.  It was like our right of passage!  Now I can stand in the ditch and it’s about as tall as I am.  But when I was little it was a LONGGGGG jump!!
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Always will remember driving up the ‘hill’ to the church.  The church was built right before I turned 8 so I was baptized there.  Also saw Pres. Kimball there when he came to dedicate it.
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Hewlett Elementary School (above) and Holbrook Jr. High
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And we couldn’t do without some photos at the Wig Wam Motel!  Didn’t realize how cool that hotel was until we moved away and saw it all over the new stories about Route 66!
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Last stop…the old rock shop that was closed.  I remember going there when anyone came to visit us so they could pick up some petrified wood.
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The old railroad station and reminiscing about sitting at the railroad crossing here, sometimes for what seemed like HOURS in the heat of the summer, so the trains could cross by us.
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Getting a treat at A&W, even though it’s not the old A&W we used to visit on McLaws Road where Grant worked and on a good day, would bring us home some leftover rootbeer!  yum yum!
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Stopping in Heber to let the kids play in the snow and the drive home as the sun set over the rim.
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