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January 22, 2013

The Four Aces










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The Four Aces is a professional film set designed to look like a classic 1950’s Route 66 motel, gas station and diner. I read online that Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses was filmed here (yikes!), as well as numerous commercials and music videos. Not long after I arrived, The Caretaker appeared and told me to leave. I have watched too many movies to mess with The Caretaker! I promptly left.

16 comments:

  1. I LOVE this post! This is my kind of place. I've never even heard of it before! In the Mojave you say? I'll be heading that way in about a month. Great photos! I've found some weird stuff in the Yuma area this week.

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  2. Before reading your comment, I told myself that your pictures reminded me an old movie .. I like the atmosphere, there is a jump in time, your photos express this feeling very well ..
    But I hope that all the zombies didn't stay there ..but maybe the caretaker is one...:)
    thank you for these images, a mythical moment for us .. :)
    Kisses..:)

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  3. If I could plan my death I would love to die there! Are you sure it wasn't the undertaker you were talking to? Let's go...I'm packing my bags! (Great post) (Great shots)

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  4. photographs on the run!
    like Dan says, i too would love to leave this world from here.
    great work!

    ~robert

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  5. PS...I also love the dark drama of the sky, a perfect climate for some kind of morbid happening.

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  6. Excellent array of shots! I'm particularly fond of the first one with that road coming in and swerving off to the right, following the big red arrow! Very cool. I also like the faded stillness of it all. Always keep one step ahead of The Caretaker!

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  7. You really must to to The Shady Dell RV Park in Bisby, AZ. Stay in a classic USian trailer, visit the Copper Queen Mine and photo your little fingers to the bone!

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  8. That was still a fun experience to get some shots of this set, and the caretaker did a good job. He waited till you got your shots to appear and send you packing. To my eye, as I scrolled down the photos, I was thinking there was something odd about these, almost like they were oil paintings and it didn't look real. So when I read it was a set I knew why I thought that.

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  9. oh, phew--a movie set! For a minute there I thought you'd been caught in some sort of time warp that you were trying to drive your way free of, stopping at diners and motels en route and swapping out gas-guzzling old autos. Stranger things have happened in the desert...and they've all involved "caretakers" in one form or another. Good that you skedaddled while the skedaddling was good!

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  10. Ah yes, the maniacal caretaker. You did well to hightail it out of there... Great Americana, though.

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  11. I love top photo, the top two, actually. And your capitalizing The Caretaker is small but significant stroke. That faded quality in the colors--did you create that or is it completely natural? Very cool.

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  12. These photos remind me of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love . . . Great play and movie . . . Great Photos as always.

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  13. i enjoyed your little text as much as the photos themselves!!! :-) why is it that you have the label "distressed"? because of the Caretaker or of the zombie-movie? (possibly both :-)

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  14. I'm glad the caretaker approached you after you took these great shots.

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  15. Wow! I completely believe it. I didn't know that they were still building movie sets out in the desert. Makes sense though. The sets used to be for a lost west. Now they're for a lost highway.

    Love moody desert light when it's about to storm.

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