This cute little building was next up on our tour of the Sedona Heritage Museum.
Admittedly it didn’t look like much upon entry.
But then the husband saw this…
And I can’t swear to it, but I think he might have orgasmed right then and there.
Me?
Because as much as I love history, including that of the old west… I despise the old Hollywood westerns. The inaccuracies, the one dimensional characters, the predictable plots? You can have them.
Yes, I know… it’s unAmerican. So sue me. But the soundtrack to my 35 year marriage has been Rio Bravo, Eldorado, and The Sons of Katie Elder. If I never see another John Wayne movie? I will die a happy woman.
But for the husband to be standing in the actual telegraph office building that was used to shoot The Angel and the Badman?
To walk where Wayne walked?
Yeah, that looks about right.
The studios made a lot of movies in Sedona back in the day, and while the husband was happily reading about the fake west….
I found an early Xerox machine from the real one.
Dare ya to print a copy of your butt on that!
And being a telegraph office, naturally there was telegraph machine.
But holy crap!
I never realized it was so expensive to send a message back then. $40 for a 10 word text? I’d be on the streets in no time flat.
And speaking of the old days…
Yes sir.
You really had to want it.
Ya, but some of those villains were HOT!
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But they could never shoot straight. The hero? One shot kills. The villains? Couldn’t even hit the side of the styrofoam boulders….
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All the cop shows are like that today too. Can’t hit the broad side of a barn with a scoop shovel like my dad always said.
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I absolutely LOVE how all the pictures you take of you husband are from behind, like he’s “trying” to stay anonymous, lol. Well except for him standing at the cardboard cutout of John Wayne, and I agree with you. Old Hollywood westerns are so boooorrriinnnggg, sacrilege? Maybe but only if you are into westerns and clearly I’m not.
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My husband does not share my love of documenting every move we make. Strange, but there it is. Most of the time he’s trying to ignore me and my shutterbug tendencies.
As for westerns… ugh. And damn, they made soooo many back in the day he’ll never run out.
😣
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“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.”
― John Wayne
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And he does it non stop on my husband’s western channel. Groan…
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Not a fan of John Wayne, but I am a fan of Salem the cat, so all is not lost. Great photos, as usual.
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Salem the Cat beats the Duke any old day…..
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I’ll agree with you on most John Wayne movies, but The Shootist (I believe his last) was a great film.
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The only one I could ever stand was The Quiet Man… and that wasn’t a western.
😉
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I agree with you about John Wayne, except for one other movie of his I liked: NORTH TO ALASKA (1960), which was a spoof of a western and more of a ‘northwestern’ than a western. Good fun.
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Oh yes, something about a fiance who never showed up?
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I haven’t seen NORTH TO ALASKA in a long time, but I think it started out with gold prospector John Wayne going ‘north to Alaska’ ahead of the fiancé (Wayne’s prospecting partner, Stewart Granger). Naturally, complications arise.
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Naturally…
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Westerns? Nah.
John Wayne? Nah.
$40 to text 10 words? YOWSA!
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I know!
How crazy is that..?
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I was never so happy as when I got a phone with an actual keyboard! It has killed my typing (and spelling) skills, though.
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Texting without a keyboard was horrible! Almost as bad as having to roll down your car windows or get up to change the channel. It’s a wonder we survived.
😉
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Oh I’m with ya. The Mister loves John Wayne, too. And all westerns, which is just bleh to me.
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Mine can endlessly watch those old turkeys… over and over and over.
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Gag
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Okay, that’s it!! I’ve always taken Fred’s side but he likes John Wayne? He has orgasms over John Wayne?? Time to get rid of Fred and get a boy toy or move here and live on Margaritas!!!
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It’s his one flaw… I try to overlook it.
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I’m with you on John Wayne, Not muh thing. And I’d do fine during the days of the telegraph – everyone knows the only person whose texts I respond to is my wife’s–and I only respond to those so she doesn’t smother me in my sleep. LMAO
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I was late to embrace texting but have been fully on board for years. So quick, so convenient, so many emojis.
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I’m with you on the old cowboy movies but I’m very pleased for your husbands ‘happy moment’. Also, you genuinely wrote something interesting…$40.00 for a message! It would certainly stop me from drunk texting if they cost that much!
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The husband has many happy moments, but not usually in museums or telegraph offices.
That I know of….
😉
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