4/13/2023 0 Comments Oasis at the golden spikeThe men’s room at Pete’s plays host to, bar none, the most interesting frontier history photo gallery in existence. Avedon, in lieu of his share of the overhead while embedded at Pete’s during his shoot of what was to become “In the American West,” passed on to Stan a sort of “greatest hits” sheaf of prints from his golden-era. We took in the eye-candy splattered across the walls including the Richard Avedon gallery within the ladies’ powder room. Paddy’s Day weekend, a couple of us requiring just such therapy partook of the pilgrimage to Pete’s. Utah” titleholder, and candidate for Sheriff of Morgan County turned amateur paleontologist, ethnomusicologist, historian of the macro-discipline, dispenser of libations, and mentor to all. You see, the entirety of the West, historical, geological, geographical, biological, political, literary, and cinematic, is embodied both in the now nondescript (exterior-wise) former jewel of the Old Lincoln Highway and the humble encyclopedically-minded saloon-keep behind the bar.Īnd that would be Stan Taggart, one-time teenage documentary photographer, rocket scientist, bodybuilder, “Mr.
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