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Kactus Kafe at Ed's Camp Art Print
by Rick Pisio
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Kactus Kafe at Ed's Camp art print by Rick Pisio. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Traveling west out of Kingman Arizona, on an early alignment of Route 66, the road begins its climb towards Sitgreaveas pass. Before the road gets... more
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Traveling west out of Kingman Arizona, on an early alignment of Route 66, the road begins its climb towards Sitgreaveas pass. Before the road gets too steep and narrow, and before you reach Sitgreaves Summit and begin your descent towards Goldroad and Oatman, you will first pass the restored Cool Springs and then a mile later come upon an eclectic collection of buildings and scrap metal called "Ed's Camp."
Lowell "Ed" Edgarton was a miner who first came to the area in 1917. In 1919 he opened a trading post and rest stop called Ed's Camp that catered to the auto traveler. Business boomed, in fact it was so good that he never enclosed the trading post and simply put a roof over the foundation to protect it from the desert sun and wire screens instead of walls saying, "The hell with the building, we will leave it open."
Ed's Camp had all the amenities needed for the Route 66 traveler of the day. In addition to the open air trading post there was the Kactus Cafe where yo...
About Rick Pisio
It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...
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Thomas Todd
Correction................ Kafe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tom
Thomas Todd
Nice catch there Rick, but don't think I would have spent much time in the Cafe. Great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tom