[Yardstick]

I stayed in Tonopah for about a month on business five years or so ago. I found it to be a strange little town — pure bleakness out on the edge of civilization.

Then there was that crazy sort of ritzy hotel on the downtown strip. It was once the tallest building in Nevada and was renonowned for having hot water and I think an elevator. This was back when Tonopah was a mining boomtown, like maybe in the late 1800s. By the 1970s it was ramshackle and then boarded up, but I think in the ‘90s or early 2000s some enterprising entrepreneur managed to get a state historical grant to spruce it up and make it operational again.

That had happened a few years before I was there. It had a reasonably nice restaurant at its lobby level where we’d eat from time to time.

Here it is, the Mizpah hotel:

https://www.themizpahhotel.com

My timeline was a little off but I was close.

[eyedigress]

Yeah, it still had gaming when I was there.

The royalty of Tonopah.

The Station House was very new.

[eyedigress]

I lived at the Tonopah apartments.

Me and a number of USAF, USMC, and USN all playing RADAR on the Range.

[Oatka]

I stayed in Tonopah for about a month on business five years or so ago. I found it to be a strange little town — pure bleakness out on the edge of civilization.

Check out a semi-creepy side trip a guy took bypassing Tonopah

[abigkahuna]

Yeah. We are at the Mizpah once. Tonapah used to be a gas stop
From Las Vegas to Reno.