| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8041 |  | Details | Hall, Dick Wick | 1920 |
| Rare Salome Road Map by Dick Wick Hall Los Angeles to Phoenix |
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Hall, Dick Wick |
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| 1920 |
| LOC:89 |
| $1,450.00 | Hall--Dick-Wick | Rare-Salome-Road-Map-by-Dick-Wick-Hall-Los-Angeles-to-Phoenix | Very rare unrecorded, hand-drawn road map, issued as a blueprint, of central Arizona and California, west of Phoenix by promoter, humorist, publisher, columnist and entrepreneur Dick Wick Hall. Inset note for aviation landing fields, rare on road maps of this era. Hall's initials D.W.H. at bottom right corner.
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<img id="8041" src="/ZoomifyImages/SC_8041/SC_8041_Frog.jpg" alt="Dick Wick Hall's Famous Salome Frog." width="300"/> <br><br> <font size="-2">Hall's Famous Salome Frog<br> At the Laughing Gas Station. Salome AZ.</font>
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Dick Wick Hall founded Salome, Arizona in 1904 as part of a speculative desert development venture along a proposed railroad route in western Arizona. He soon became the town’s most visible booster, operating a roadside service station, promoting travel through the desert, and cultivating a larger-than-life persona that blended entrepreneurship with humor.
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Dated to 1920 based on a very similar map published by Hall in his Salome Sun mimeographed newspaper he published between 1920 and 1926. <div class="indenttextblock"><i>" ... the paper was likely intended to be supplied to service stations, such as the one Hall owned in Salome, or other road stops for the traveler passing through, as each issue contains short quips written by Hall about road trips, Yuma County, stories about the desert and driving in the southwest. The paper also often contains cartoonish illustrations of common southwest wildlife, from snakes to scorpions and cacti, as well as regularly featuring a cartoon frog by the name of the Salome Frog who regularly declares that he cannot swim."</i> </div> (Reference: State of Arizona Research Library. Online. https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/328579).<br><br> |