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[Oznell]

just bee, how fab.  I totally forgot that that's how the native Prescottonians pronounce it, ha.  Absolutely true.  (Even my Aunt Alice and Uncle Ken who lived down in Tucson said it that way.)  I love it that you appreciate that wonderful town too-- or at least what we remember of it before it "burgeoned"!

[just bee]

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@Oznell wrote:

just bee, how fab.  I totally forgot that that's how the native Prescottonians pronounce it, ha.  Absolutely true.  (Even my Aunt Alice and Uncle Ken who lived down in Tucson said it that way.)  I love it that you appreciate that wonderful town too-- or at least what we remember of it before it "burgeoned"!

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@Oznell

All the old haunts -- Whiskey Row, Lynx Lake, El Charro and the Smoki Museum.  We were there when the population was 14,000.  Now it's almost 46,000.

I continue an El Charro tradition.  In 1970 they served cheese crisps -- basically melted cheese on a crispy tortilla.  My mother made them when we moved to California and I still make them today.

El Charro remains and they're still serving cheese crisps.  But I'm not sure I'd pay what they're asking for them today!

[Oznell]

Wow, wait, just bee.  I had forgotten the name, but was El Charro the restaurant that offered both Chinese and Mexican food.  I thought that was such a great hybrid--  moo goo gai pan and churros at the same meal!!!

Another one we liked was wierdly, a Geman restaurant called I think "The Hofbrau Haus".  I think I read online a while back that there are still fierce loyalists to that place even though it no longer exists...

The topography around Prescott is so appealing.  I like the Dells just outside of town.  The formerly scary ghost town of Jerome, clinging to the cliffs-- which is now an artist's colony.  Gorgeous Sedona and red rocks country...  Now I'm so nostalgic!

[just bee]

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@Oznell wrote:

Wow, wait, just bee.  I had forgotten the name, but was El Charro the restaurant that offered both Chinese and Mexican food.  I thought that was such a great hybrid--  moo goo gai pan and churros at the same meal!!!

Another one we liked was wierdly, a Geman restaurant called I think "The Hofbrau Haus".  I think I read online a while back that there are still fierce loyalists to that place even though it no longer exists...

The topography around Prescott is so appealing.  I like the Dells just outside of town.  The formerly scary ghost town of Jerome, clinging to the cliffs-- which is now an artist's colony.  Gorgeous Sedona and red rocks country...  Now I'm so nostalgic!

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@Oznell

El Charro was unpretentious, narrow and affordable.  The menu was pretty simple.  There were cheese crisps and red and green burritos.  No Chinese food there in 1970.  Come to think of it, where was Chinese food in Prescott in 1970?

Wow -- Mingus Mountain just popped into my head.  I remember a trip to Jerome when it was just a ghost town and no one was there.  Memory fails, but there might have been an old saloon on the corner and there were mannequins in western clothing at the tables.  Hopefully, that was just a childhood nightmare.

Probably the most significant thing about our year in Prescott was the filming of Bless the Beasts & Children.  I can watch it today and it takes me right back to Prescott.  It was filmed in both Prescott and Jerome; cast and crew hung out at the restaurant where my mother waited tables.  It seemed to me that she became a sort of surrogate mom for the young actors in the film.

Wait.  I take that back.  The most significant thing about that year was our discovery of cicadas.  I was at my friend's house up the hill and I heard a scream.  Turned out it was my mother.  She had her first glimpse of a cicada's exoskeleton in our yard.

Now I know why we moved to California.

[Oznell]

just bee, those reminiscences are priceless.  Mingus Mountain rings a vague bell.  I'm now going to have to look up "Bless the Beasts and Children". 

Prescott must be a favored setting for movies.  One of my cousin's claims to fame is when she lived in Prescott, she got to be a crowd extra in "Junior Bonner" with Steve McQueen and ida Lupino.  It was a rodeo scene, and I think she said she can spot herself in the crowd...

I too, was sure I'd get back to Prescott one way or another, but have failed to so far.

Although I've visited in several dreams I've had, strangely enough...

[just bee]

@Oznell

Road trip!

[Oznell]

Wow, it HAS grown!  Very cool, just bee.   But majestic Thumb Butte is just the same.

[just bee]

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@Oznell wrote:

Wow, it HAS grown!  Very cool, just bee.   But majestic Thumb Butte is just the same.

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@Oznell

Maybe Thomas Wolfe was right and we can't go home again.  But I suppose we can try.