The town too tough to die

[Dennis Gallus]

During the first week of December I visited Tombstone, Arizona, armed with my Olympus OM-1 trekker kit.  
I frankly expected a tourist trap, but found that I could have plenty of photographic fun there without spending money.


The original courthouse is still there.  I'll bet that some notable figures stood in front of the judge.  50mm/1.8


Big Nose Kate's Saloon.  135mm/3.5


Those cowpokes didn't care for them delicate-sized women...
135mm/3.5 cropped


Ghosts and Legends?  There were several obvious re-enactors walking the streets.  
35mm/2.8, cropped

Has anyone else been to Tombstone?  
Some people on the web denigrate the 135mm/3.5 Zuiko, but I love mine.

Thanks for looking, and have a happy Christmas.
Dennis

[Alan Gage]

I've driven through a couple times and actually stopped once when a couple friends of mine were showing me the area. It was a pretty neat place and it was nice to learn that there was actually still a town that real people lived in.

Still, I have a really tough time getting interested in a place like that though and we didn't stay long. Just enough time to walk to boardwalk and have a drink of whiskey at the Crystal Palace Saloon.

Nice shots though.

Alan

[Julio1fer]

Nice shots, Dennis. Keep posting these threads about U.S. places and reenactments, I love them.

[cenelson]

Enjoyed the set, Dennis. Reminds me of a theme park from my childhood, back in Florida, called Six Gun Territory.

[Ronald Bishop]

Those cowpokes didn't care for them delicate-sized women...

Asides that, them ladies wore spurs !!

Enjoyed your pictures Dennis, nothing like I remember. I delivered some Washington apples there back in the early 70s and done the walkaround.
     We had wooden boardwalks in St.Maries Idaho in the 40s. Kids used chewing gum on the end of sticks to fish for coins through the knotholes & cracks.

[Kalkadan]

Dennis

The boardwalk, with the guy striding along swinging his swagger stick under the awnings supported by the posts: it took me back to my childhood.  We had places like that out here once.  Not exactly the same but similar.  Thanks.  Very good colours.

[Brad Bireley]

Dennis,
As always I enjoyed your photos.
Brad

[Graham Serretta]

Dennis, as usual, you have entertained and inspired.  What a fascinating set of images from a place that exists in my mind only as a movie set.   I see that the fellow sitting outside the saloon is wearing a shoulder rig.  Not the usual get up, surely.
 
Those that denigrate the Zuiko 135mm f3.5 are welcome to send theirs on to me, where it will receive a hero's welcome.

[Kalkadan]

Mr Graham Sherlock Holmes Serretta - I had not noticed that.  What is the shoulder rig?  A six-shooter under the armpit? This guy would have been truly formidable.  I once had on lay-by a flap Over holster gun a-la-the Mounties with a lanyard.  Very slow on the draw.  Lucky I did not meet the Billy The Kid of the neighbourhood.

A very happy Christmas Day to all - Wayne, wonderful shots - going to bed here now and almost incoherent (did I spell that right?) .......

[Dennis Gallus]

Graham, Dan,

It appears that this fellow is set up for a cross-draw with his left hand, which would be rather unusual.  Perhaps if I had attended the 1 PM daily shootout at the OK Corral I could have learned why this old boy preferred his unusual holster configuration.  Perhaps he was a stagecoach or wagon driver, and a normal hip holster would have been difficult to reach while sitting on a bench seat?  If he drove his team with the right hand, the left-hand draw would have also been appropriate (assuming he could hit something when shooting lefty).

Apropos of Ron Bishop's comment, I heard that the main street had been paved until 1980 or so.  At that time the town council decided to un-pave it and return to sand for the sake of atmosphere.  Because the "historic district" is closed to vehicular traffic it was probably a good decision.

We are about to open presents. Merry Christmas to all and to your families.

Dennis