Flutterby™! : Wells, Nevada

Apologies for the delays in more pictures, I'm back at work with lots of stuff to do (and out of town visitors with their misbehaving laptops, seen more Windows XP bluescreens this morning than...) and I'm sorting through a gazillion images (but making progress on my tools).

However, I have a bunch of popped-up links that I want to make a note of. Eastbound on I-80 through Nevada at 75MPH (and yes, I really did drive the speed limit) we saw a "historic district" sign, so we pulled off into Wells, Nevada. The historic district was a bunch of old buildings in various states of repair (one old bank for $59k that was actually quite spiffy) and partial tenancy that was kinda cool. I took a bunch of pictures to make a model railroad diorama.

But what impressed us about this town is that in so many desert towns you get the feeling that people live there because it's their last resort. Wells is obviously populated by people who live there because they really want to. There's a lot of vibrance in that rundown town, and even though it's waaaaay out there, I'm looking for an excuse to go back sometime. They had a brochure pitching their new business park, lots of flyers on the local culture and history, and even though on a Saturday the place was shut down there was still something about it that made us both slightly intrigued.

There's the Wells Chamber of Commerce, the Wells Nevada Online Page, and this amusing tail from 1943: Quarantined in Wells. Yes, they still have two brothels.