Shady Dell Trailer Park

Marty CohenArchitecture, Arizona, Bisbee4 Comments

Shady Dell Trailer Park

Shady Dell Trailer Park in Bisbee, Arizona

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The Shady Dell Trailer Park sign is another wonderful example of “Americana”, especially with Dot’s Diner (click here to see Dot’s Diner) on the other side of the parking lot. The trailer park is a motel where most of the rooms are Airstream trailers, as well as a bus and a yacht (on dry dock supports). To check in to the motel you go to the office (see below). It’s also a classic design.

Welcome - Please Come In

The office at the Shady Dell Trailer Park. We rent by the night.

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Dot’s Diner

Marty CohenArchitecture, Arizona, Bisbee, HDR7 Comments

Dot's Diner

Dot’s Diner in Bisbee, Arizona

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Dot’s Diner is an authentic 1950’s diner located in Bisbee, Arizona. When you look through the windows, it appears to be fully outfitted and capable of serving food, but it was closed. In doing some online research, it appears that it closed in late January 2011. Prior to that, it got rave reviews for its food and its authenticity.

The diner sits out front of the Shady Dell Trailer Park which is actually a motel where the rooms are different  Airstream  travel trailers built between 1947 and 1957. Each has been fully restored and is decorated with unique objects from that era.  I’ll be posting many more photos from the Shady Dell over the next few weeks. Be sure you keep checking back.

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This photo is an HDR image from three different exposures taken with a Canon EOS 40D, EF17-40mm f/4L lens.

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Sedona Light Through the Clouds

Marty CohenArizona, Sedona10 Comments

Sedona Light Through the Clouds

Light shines through the clouds onto the red rocks of Sedona.

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Today’s photo is from our recent trip to Sedona, AZ. It’s really a companion image to the one I posted two weeks ago at this link. It’s another view from Airport Mesa, but this one is special because, as I was shooting on this very cloudy day, the clouds parted briefly, just enough to let the sun shine down on the rock formations and add this  very beautiful illumination of the rocks. When we lived and worked in Sedona, we would have many days of great light and cloud formations. If you’d like to see some of my other Sedona photographs, go to the Arizona Gallery on my MSC Gallery Portfolio page.

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The photo was taken with a Canon EOS 40D, EF17-40mm f/4L lens, 1/125 sec at f/16, ISO 200 on SanDisk Extreme IV Digital Film.

Main Street Bisbee Arizona

Marty CohenArchitecture, Arizona, Bisbee8 Comments

Main Street Bisbee, Arizona

Main Street – Bisbee, Arizona

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“Bisbee, 90 miles southeast of Tucson, is the picturesque county seat of historic Cochise County. The community was founded in 1880 and named after Judge DeWitt Bisbee, a financial backer of the Copper Queen Mine. This Old West mining camp proved to be one of the richest mineral sites in the world, producing nearly three million ounces of gold and more than eight billion pounds of copper, not to mention the silver, lead and zinc that came from these rich Mule Mountains.”
“In 1908 a fire ravaged most of Bisbee’s commercial district along Main Street, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes. Reconstruction began immediately and by 1910 most of the district had been rebuilt and remains completely intact today. Activities began to slow as the mines played out and the population began to shrink; mining operations on a large scale became unprofitable in 1975.”  Source: Bisbee Chamber of Commerce

“Main Street” is still the main street in Bisbee and now has many shops selling antiques, artist creations, clothing and honey from Mexican Killer Bees sold out of a little hole in the wall shop.

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The  photo was taken with a Canon EOS 40D, EF17-40mm f/4L lens, 1/125 sec at f/16, ISO 400.

Red Shoes Hair Salon

Marty CohenArchitecture, B+W, Bisbee6 Comments

Red Shoes Hair Salon

Red Shoes Hair Salon in Bisbee, AZ

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The Red Shoes Hair Salon sits next to the old mechanic’s shop where the VW bus was painted on the garage door. It’s a classic style building for Bisbee and is both a multi-family dwelling and a commercial space on the ground floor. There was a stylist working on a client in the room on the lower right. I liked how the building looked in black and white, and I also wanted to take advantage of the colorful sign in the window. Click on the photo to enlarge it and see more detail.

Parking for the salon was next door in front of the mechanic’s office wall, on which this sign was painted:

Red Shoes Only

The sign on the wall for parking at the Red Shoes Hair Styling Shop

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