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FRASHER FOTO POSTCARD COLLECTION — Page 4
Caption
Page
4
Transcript
The
Westerners
Brand
Book
this:
out
of
San
Bernardino
over
the
Cajon
Pass
to
Barstow
, and
beyond.
This
far
in those
days
on those
roads
was
itself
a
day's
drive.
From there the
route
was
north
through
the
Silver
Lake
area
to
Jubilee
Pass
,
through
that
passage
into the
lower
end
of
Death
Valley
proper
and
up
through
that
gritty
wasteland
to
Furnace
Creek.
It
was on this
trip
,
Frasher
recalls
, that his
father's
party
started
running
low
on
gasoline.
They
drove
the
touring
car
from
Furnace
Creek
to
Ryan
and from there a
call
was
placed
to
Death
Valley
Junction.
Frasher
waited
at
Ryan
until
the
little
train
brought
the
tins
of
gasoline
over
from the
Junction.
Frasher
and his
group
returned
to
Furnace
Creek
,
drove
north
up
through
the
Valley
,
crossing
over
the
mountains
finally
to
ruined
Rhyolite.
And
such
a
Rhyolite
it
was.
Burton
Frasher
,
Jr.
recalls
it
from a
later
trip.
"All
the
wooden
buildings
were
still
standing.
We
spent
the
night
in
one
of the
town's
best
preserved
buildings
, an
old
church.
We
had to
sweep
the
whisky
bottles
off
the
church
pulpit
to
put
down
our
bed
rolls.
In the
old
newspaper
office
the
files
of the
paper
were
still
in
place.
There were
hundreds
of
Rhyolite
and
Bullfrog
stock
certificates
scattered
across
the
floor
of the
bank.
I
was a
great
collector
, or
wanted
to be in those
days.
I
wanted
to
take
it
all
with
me.
But
my
Dad
was
opposed
to
it.
'Leave
some
for the
next
man'
was his
motto.
I
took
a
few
things.
The
next
time
we
were there
it
was
all
gone.
From the
first
visit
the
wooden
buildings
started
to
vanish
at
Rhyolite
and the
collector's
items
had
vanished"
If
Burton
Frasher
was
bearish
on
collecting
curios
, he
did
like
to
put
everything
worth
seeing
on
film.
There are
pictures
in the
Frasher
collection
of
Rhyolite
of that
day.
Subsequently
Frasher's
excursions
--
almost
always
with his
wife
and
child
--
took
them and the
cars
of the
day
into the
lonesome
desert
region.
There are
some
wonderful
pictures
in the
Frasher
collection
of
old
Pierce
Arrows
and
Hupmobiles.
As a
rule
Frasher
drove
new
cars
or
nearly
new
cars
into the
desert
on his
trips.
He
knew
the
dangers
of a
breakdown
in
remote
places
, and
Frasher
sought
out
the
remote
places.
Titus
Canyon
--
and this was
before
C.
C.
Julian
built
his
road
from
Rhyolite
into the
swindle
town
of
Leadfield
--
was a
place
that
Frasher
sought
out.
He
drove
to the
north
end
of the
Valley
and
got
to
know
that
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