From one of the park rangers there we learned the best place to have it repaired was Death Valley Junction.” “One morning we woke up to find we had a flat tire on our trailer. “In 1967, we were vacationing in Death Valley,” she said. Recalling the story to me in the late 1990s, Becket said that she stumbled onto the opera house by accident.
The story of how a New York-trained dancer ended up dancing in the middle of nowhere remains a fascinating tale. She only stopped when her knees and hip gave out from years of dancing and she was forced to retire at the age of 87. Becket, who died in 2017, operated the quirky Amargosa Opera House on the edge of Death Valley, where she performed classical ballet and modern dance from 1968 to 2012. The hotel's performances and cafe used to provide extra cash if bookings dried up, but there's not enough staff to reopen.For more than four decades, Marta Becket danced in the desert. Grey said the hotel only made $4,000 this month, while July expenses added up to $10,000. Upkeep is costly, especially the AC bill, and they had to shut down for months during the pandemic.
When two towing companies said they couldn't reach her, they suggested calling Martell market - whose services range from Vietnamese food and trimming Wilsoncat's fur to rescue missions.Įd isn't fazed by Death Valley's increase in heat as much as he is by the decrease in customers. One reviewer said that the Martell's saved her life after her car became stuck in quicksand. A quick glance at the market's Yelp page shows a shocking number of 5-star reviews raving about the desert's one-stop shop. LIZ HAFALIA/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Imagesĭeath Valley's Martell Market is, for lack of better words, "in the middle of nowhere." Even so, the retired couple Ed and Sunny Martell have successfully run the business for 12 years now. Don Connolly is the self appointed mayor of Ballarat, a mining ghost town, just outside border of Death Valley National Park, 2001.
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