death valley hotels amargosa opera house

Given the sparse population density of her adopted desert home, she didn't always have an audience - and thus, the epiphany to paint a trompe-l'œil audience on the walls and ceiling of the theatre. Marta took the building up on its offer, moved in, and soon began dancing in it, 3 nights a week. Take me.do something with me.I offer you life'. Perpendicular to this long adobe building was a theatre, which, Marta claimed, 'seemed to be saying. While hubby went to fix the flat, Marta explored the old hotel that once housed all the Borax factory workers back in the long gone boom days. Marta and her then-husband were on vacation in 1967 when they got a flat tire in Death Valley Jct, Ca. Some background: the Amargosa Opera House & Hotel is owned and overseen by a one-time Broadway actress / dancer / ballerina named Marta Becket.

(Our room, #22: the *Red Skelton Room, is pictured here)

We didn't have a plan, but we had a reservation: one night, and one night only, at the Amargosa Opera House & Hotel. Newly de-bastardized baby in tow, we headed west: Death Valley. After hitching up at the drive-thru, we grabbed some quick coffee and bolted outta Vegas. One year ago this week, my girlfriend and I became My Wife And I.

Death valley hotels amargosa opera house