![]() ![]() (feel free to skip ahead at any time - cool links below! I'm really just here to show you these really sick paintings that decorate the Amargosa Hotel & Opera House. I can't remember if I ate fritos or yo-yos, but it was one of those. So we settled for the hotel dining room, with its dusty old electric fireplace. HA! chortled the desert, "good"-naturedly. Unprepared for the bout of 40 degree weather being whipped around by howling desert winds, we sought a restaurant, or perhaps a nice saloon. Our arrival at the hotel was cheered by about a dozen peacocks and the departing trio of hotel staffers, who told us other guests might be arriving throughout the evening, and would we mind showing them their rooms? Keys were taped to the front door outside. Death valley hotels amargosa opera house series#Here's a series of portraits that adorn the lone hallway of her hotel:įollowing charming portraits of Robin Williams, Bob Odenkirk and Joanna Newsom, she paints a blank portrait? This was the first of many things to haunt me during our wedding night spent at the Amargosa Opera House & Hotel. Her painting style was cheerful and bright, and certainly amateurish, but she had a perceptive eye - and an unfailing sense of the perverse. With no one to see and nothing to do, by the mid-1970s Marta had fully populated her world with her colorful creations. Given the sparse population density of her adopted desert home, she didn't always have an audience - and thus, the epiphany to paint a trompe-l'œil audience on the walls and ceiling of the theatre. Marta took the building up on its offer, moved in, and soon began dancing in it, 3 nights a week. Take me.do something with me.I offer you life". Perpendicular to this long adobe building was a theatre, which, Marta claimed, "seemed to be saying. ![]() While hubby went to fix the flat, Marta explored the old hotel that once housed all the Borax factory workers back in the long gone boom days. Marta and her then-husband were on vacation in 1967 when they got a flat tire in Death Valley Jct, Ca. ![]() Some background: the Amargosa Opera House & Hotel is owned and overseen by a one-time Broadway actress / dancer / ballerina named Marta Becket. (Our room, #22: the *Red Skelton Room, is pictured here) We didn't have a plan, but we had a reservation: one night, and one night only, at the Amargosa Opera House & Hotel. Newly de-bastardized baby in tow, we headed west: Death Valley. After hitching up at the drive-thru, we grabbed some quick coffee and bolted outta Vegas. One year ago this week, my girlfriend and I became My Wife And I. ![]()
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