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winter 2003
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• The Master of Light | |
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• Great Place to Hang | |
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• Extreme Elevations | |
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• A different day in Dixie | |
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• Seligman's Town Clown | |
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• Beady-eyed charmers | |
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• Kingston Summit: Across the Toiyabe Range | |
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• The Narrows of Lovell Wash |
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 PHOTOGRAPHY BY LARRY ANGIER Seligman's Town Clown
STORY BY CAROLYN FOX A bus tourist orders a small ice cream cone. He gets a cone with about a teaspoon of product, the size used for free samples in other stores. But when a man asks for salt, he's offered cubes as big as cinderblocks, the kind of salt fed to cattle. My partner, Larry Angier, and I order two strawberry cones. Juan's son Bob hands us a single-scoop cone wearing a second cone like a dunce's cap. There's more confusion when Juan gives our change to the people next in line. If Salvador Dali had a hamburger stand, this would be it. No one is singled out for teasing. At this offbeat diner in Seligman, Arizona, almost everyone is offered the wad of used napkins or previously owned soda straws. Most people request a clean one of each, and get it, but Delgadillo has been making the same bizarre offers for 50 years, and it hasn't hurt business a bit. ...
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 The March/April 2003 Issue is out. Find it at Las Vegas bookstores today. |
