How can the Amargosa Opera House not capture your imagination?! Discovered, or rediscovered, by dancer Marta Becket in the late 1960s she resurrected the abandoned theater into a venue for her own work.
In these images captured by Vernon Merritt for Life Magazine you see Marta dancing, painting the murals that adorn the walls, and generally being something you would find in a Tim Burton film.
Marta retired earlier this year at the age of 87. Sadly I never got to see her perform, but these images endure as a reminder that stuff like this actually happens.
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Amargosa Opera House – Death Valley
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Kashi says:
Feb 11, 2013
The Amargosa hotel is one of my favorite peclas on Earth. For a long time not sure if it’s still the case there was an adjoining space for let, an old restaurant, crying out for someone to come and make something as special and beautiful as Amargosa. When I visited in 2006, my friends and I spent the entire car trip back to our Death Valley campsite debating the obvious door which had just opened in our lives, which is to say the magnificent possibility of opening the only macrobiotic restaurant in Death Valley.