"Wild West" park auctions off its stuff

[Guest bighugbearphx]

Know someone who would love a slightly-used branding iron for

Christmas? (Just the thing to have handy, when you and your partner

come home from a showing of "Brokeback Mountain"!

 

Too butch? How about a fainting couch?

 

Or a blacksmith's heat forge blower? Maybe a stain glass bank

teller window? Or a telegraph repeater, a foot-pedal sewing

machine, fiberglass horses, a whalebone girdle? I know ... bet

nobody else will get him a full size train depot platform! Or a jail

building (some assembly required).

 

These, and many other odds and ends, are up for auction this coming

Saturday, November 19, 10am at the former site of the Rawhide Wild

West Town, a tourist attraction that had operated in Scottsdale AZ

for over 35 years. The site, originally in the desert far north of

the city of Scottsdale, became a victim of urban sprawl and

progress (Not much of an "old West" atmosphere when you can look

past the sheriff's office and see a brand new Starbucks and luxury

condos under construction! Condos will indeed be the future use of

the site.)

 

But, never fear, Rawhide is being rebuilt, larger and better, on the

Gila River Indian Reservation, just south of Phoenix on I-17. It

will open at that site in mid December. The items being auctioned

off in Scottsdale are the items that were duplicated in the new

location, and won't be neeeded. Proceeds of the auction benefit a

local charity that helps the working poor in Maricopa County.

 

For details on the auction, including directions and a list of all

items available, http://www.auctionaz.com/111905.htm

For info on the new (and old) Rawhide Wild West Town:

http://www.rawhide.com

 

YEEEE-HAAAAAAAW!