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- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #600
Date of adventure: 1/13/22
Way out on an extremely desolate stretch of highway halfway between the Amargosa Opera House and the Area 51 Alien Travel Center, a lone casino waits patiently for Yucca Mountain employees that never materialized. The nuke repository might be dead in the water -- but there's still plenty of weird action at Jim Marsh's Longstreet Inn & Casino! It's like being in a David Lynch movie...come with me as I investigate the best place to stay in all of Amargosa Valley!
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I don’t know why, but Sarah feeding the animals at the petting zoo was the best part of the video. The (Musk Ox?) was the best of all.
Pretty sure that's a water buffalo, probably a Viet Namese variety.
@@ByrdMann2010 I used to help my dad raise cattle in Arkansas 30 years ago. That Water Buffalo brought back memories.
Ponderossa Dairy in Amargossa has a ton of employees, and they go to the Longstreet and that bar across the street. That's largely why they exist. Same with the Ruby store, which has great burritos, and Martells Market which believe it or not has some of the best chinese food you'll find in Nevada
That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the share on that one. I like to swing in on the way to Death Valley. I could cut through Pahrump but this way is the Nevada that I enjoy.
Wow i didnt know that!
I bet those tourists from Europe were absolutely thrilled to visit a wild west town in in middle of nowhere.
Alien cathouse and gas station? That sounds intriguing.
Last animal was a water buffalo, a draft znimal popular thruout Asia.
Thanks for video!
Mel Chung>> Don't water buffalo cows make delicious yogurts and cheeses?
You can't compare balloons with a long term marriage. 😄
Balloons may deflate but every anniversary you get nice new puffy ones to celebrate! Marriage is amazing if you make that way.
I love it when Wonderhussy uses her little girl voice when talking to animals.
Very gracious of you to give an upbeat tour of this desert casino. I hope the owner appreciates your good opinion of his venue. I would certainly stay there, in preference to a Las Vegas or Reno experience. I wonder if there is a general aviation airstrip close by. People could fly in, stay at the casino, and not be bothered with big city crowds, noise, crime, etc. That petting zoo is a hit.
If you're a pilot, you may want to check out Cal-Nev-Ari. It's between Searchlight and California stateline on US 95.
Be careful flying in, its close to area 51 and I am sure several other bases.
@@FrankBullitt390 I think the closest public airstrip to Area 51 is in Tonopah if Rachel doesn't have one. Either way, this hotel is closer to Pahrump, which does have an airstrip, but is in the other direction from Area 51. The closest Airforce base to Area 51 is Creech AFB which actually has roads that lead to Groom Lake.
Never even thought of going to Death Valley, but now you have me curious😉
I know a few people who recently have moved to Pahrump from AZ & Cali and love it.
@@niecek.6473 our friends moved out there. Suddenly he got very sick and died almost before I could even say Nevada.
My BMW motorcycle club spent a night at the Longstreet in February 2012 while on a three day ride from SoCal. The room was nice, had a fireplace and looked out on the lake in the back with ducks coming right up to the window. The restaurant, while not large, was good with friendly staff. Nice job on this video.
The Faribanks Morse is an old hit and miss engine, the older ones like that often ran on kerosine. They were often used on farms here in the upper midwest for various jobs. They actually have clubs that collect and restore them. The threshing machine was a surprise to see down there, all the old Scandinavians and Germans up here in Minnesota including my father called them trashing machines.
I don't think there is any other person that I know of who can tell a story better or give a tour of any area better then....
WONDERHUSSY !!!
This sounds like Howard Hughes would own something like this!
The things with the flywheels are Gas engines. The Fairbanks Morse is a vertical style. Type made around the early 1900s. I actually have a bunch of those myself! Give me some time and I bet I could get them running! And yes, that was a Threshing Machine! They are also called Separators. Ran by a steam traction engine or Tractor with a flat belt pulley.
Asian Buffalo, think Viet Nam, Cambodia, etc. Musk Ox are hairy with huge humped shoulders, think Alaska and areas north of the Artic Circle.
The cow kind of reminds me of the Sam the record man sign in down town Toronto , which used to be a record /CD store ,but someone bought it and put it somewhere else , and if you want to see it you can ,by watching half baked when he feeds all the candy to the horse lol
Haha good one about the gazebo. I call it "left-hand tobacco " myself.
Musk ox, haha!...I heard the sheep when you were describing the⛽'s and thought, " why is she putting animal noises in the background music, what does that have to do w gas prices?"...then you came to the petting zoo!🥕🐂🐃🐐...there's a few of your vlogs where it's like being in a David Lynch show!
Nice vlog!
I lived in Las Vegas for 13 years. I remember the cow. Thanks for this amazing video. 👏
David Lynch movie! You’re so right, it’s like a Twin Peaks episode in the desert, I looooove it!!
The one piece of machinery is a thresher. You are right. My dad had a old one on my families farm, when I was growing up.
This place could provide tourists staying in the Death Valley a good option for night entertainment. It's on the Nevada side.
And I bet its a hell of a lot cheaper than the "fancy" joint at Furnace Creek for $400 a night!
The FAIRBANKS-MORSE machine is on old diesel single cylinder engine. They were mostly used to generate electricity for manufacturing plants and small cities. But, this one looks like it was used as a belt/pulley system to run other machines like drills, lathes and other devices in a shop, since there are no generator coils.
Wow, that's a gorgeous hotel and casino!
Sarah you have a great heart those guys or girls loved the carrots and I love all the history of the Desert you do a lot a research it’s so interesting I look forward to Wednesday.
I used to go past there regularly, but never stopped, although I always wanted to. Used to go to the large dairy just down the road and load up raw milk and take it to either Las Vegas to the Meadow Gold facility, or to Rock View Farms processing in Downey, Ca.
Yet another roadside attraction brought to life by none other than the great desert docent, Wonderhussy. Thanks for another great look into the life and history of that wonderful part of our country.
Wonderhussy feeding the animals is so cute
Loved this video. The musk ox is actually a water buffalo 🐃. Fascinating place to visit.
I'll have to check this place out next time we make a Death Valley trip, looks really chill out there.
Can't wait for the Jack Longstreet character. Just read a little about him on the Longstreet Casino website. Interesting person for sure.
I would suggest that this Casino is more or less a money laundry....LOL
That was a water buffalo, musk ox have long shaggy hair, and the wool from musk ox is one of the most exspinseve of all the differante types of wool in the world, it`s called kivike .
Stayed there overnight in our RV while passing thru. Love your videos!
I didn't know Jim Marsh built that place; sounds like something he would do! BTW, I think that's a water buffalo rather than a musk ox.
Before the lockdown….we used to wonder there for lunch coming out of the test site. It gets pretty busy with truckers and tourists. Mexican food at the indoor cafe is always good and they have a steak night which wasn’t too shabby. And yes, most of the visitors are tourists from Europe.
Thank you again for your videos hope your shingles are better and not too painful
When you get down to it, it's probably not that big a difference between this and that casino that some guy named Laughlin built on the side of the Colorado river in the middle of nowhere. There was actually a town called Bullhead across the river, and a dam a short way down the river.
I would love to hike with you somewhere sometime. If you would someday visit Maui I could take you on a Lilikoi hunting hike, or a bamboo forest waterfall hike, whatever. Love watching your adventures, keep up the good work.
As a Rural Northern Nevadan, I've been waiting for years for Sarah Jane to devote some time to the iconic Jack Longstreet- "The Last of the Desert Frontiersmen".
Sarah Jane has done two videos I know of on Belmont, NV. It seems Sarah Jane has been unaware Jack and (common law wife) Fannie are buried side-by-side in well-marked graves at the Belmont, NV cemetery.
Belmont cemetery is rather large, but Jack and Fannie's graves can be found by anyone with a bit of determination.
Jack also spent time in the County Jail at Belmont. But that is a story for another time...
I love yiyr videos where yiu tell a story and give out tidbits of the history of the area. Majes me want to pack up and drive 2000 miles west to see it first hand. Looking forward to the Longstreet video. Great video!
Yep that’s a steam thresher. In those days the wheat came to the thresher on wagons after being cut instead of the thresher going to the wheat. The conveyor was the same height as the wagons. Have fun out there!
Here in Alberta we are paying $3.69 per litre of regular unleaded..and we refine the darn stuff right here ! Interesting video, Thanks Sarah, hope your feeling better soon.
"HIRING TODAY - ALL POSITIONS" seems appropriate for a brothel...
Not a MUSK OX,WATER BUFFALO-REAL BUFFALO,not like our American Bison"buffalo"!!Great video,I Love places like that!!
Wonderhussy, you never cease to amaze and delight - you are beeeeeautiful! Your camerawork is superb! The stuff with you feeding the animals really brought me right there! You're like Snow White when she's lost in the woods and all the animals come out to be with her. You have such a gift for storytelling, you could read the phonebook and make it interesting!
So many cool places in the sand.
I love this place!! Took my engagement pictures there last year by the chapel. I enjoyed my stay there much better than Furnace Creek. Great service, good views, and definitely met some interesting people. My type of place!
Amagrosa Opera House was on "Dead Files". That place is extremely HAUNTED!
Great video! cheers. My cowboy grandpa told me, never pet a bull in between the fence panels, they can break your arm.
You could stay in worse places than that. Beautiful view of the mountains. Cool.
Yucca Mtn. Proposed nuclear waste repository was gonna be huge! I participated in a study I found in the newspaper in like 1999 or so.. met up at Ethel M ..went on a bus with 50 others to the site! Split up into vans.. toured the whole GIANT area with scientists & geologists all with military escorts the whole time...then they took is to like area 70 something we were fed box lunches and then asked to take a survey relaying how we feel about storing spent fuel rods there .Then back on the bus to Vegas.. Good times..
Killed by Harry Reed. Will now be in New Mexico.
Love it good vid huss! Stay safe happy trails 🤘
I'll "bet" that Jim Marsh's DAD was Stanley Marsh 3 because he was also a very successful car dealer AND he built the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo on Route 66 which is along the same lines as this WEIRD place in the middle of nowhere.
It looks like the casino the movie, Dusk till Dawn was filmed. Awsome...I lived in Vegas/Henderson for 4 years and just recently moved back home to Wheatland Wyoming, Started my Electrical contracting business back up. Ive learned more about Nevada and the hidden gems it has to offer, on your channel, then anywhere else. I love you and your channel. You can come to Wyoming and do a quirky history video on SE Wyoming, ide be happy to be your guide. Love you, keep it up.
Good to see you out and about, Wonderhussy. Must be feeling better. Very interesting video. No overcrowding. All the attractions of Las Vegas spread out for miles. That last animal is unusual in any petting zoo. Don't find many water buffalo in any desert. Hope that casino/hotel continues to thrive in its little corner. Diversification probably helps. Stay well Sarah. 😎
Wow. What a find. Looks very well maintained.
I'd stay there if I was headed to DV
In 2014, I spent 7 days at Longstreet's hotel while conducting traffic surveys in Death Valley
Fairbanks Morse also built diesel engines for railroad locomotives AND WW2 submarines/PT boats. Trivia for the day!
And there are CZcams videos of some of them!
$3.829 per gallon for regular - GEE, I wish! I just paid $4.499 per gallon yesterday for regular here in California. Be glad you are paying ONLY $3.829. That Fairbanks Morse item is a stationary gasoline engine, could have been used at a mine to power the various implements. They also built diesel engines in WWII submarines. Thanks for the video. Jon
The Holstein cow is only a few yards from cali, everything is in Nevada right at the border.
Holy cow !
Another great adventure from the wonderful lady of Nevada.
I really want to visit Nevada again !
Longstreet Inn RV park is our favorite place, we stay there in fall and in the spring and we stayed for a month to get our NV residency.
Love... Jackpot the Casino cat and the petting zoo
Just picked up your U tube channel a few months ago. I'm really enjoying getting caught up on your prior adventures.
Me to 😁👍🏾👍🏾
She's Grreat
I stayed here before Xmas 2023 with two gal friends to do stargazing in Death Valley during the meteor shower. It's WONDERFUL. Can't believe people choose to stay in the over priced Nat. Park instead of here. Spent 3 nights. 3 rooms. We had a BLAST🎉❤Sunrises and sunsets were gorgeous. Also- food was pretty good, plentiful and coffee was hot and ready at 7:30am
Miss Wonderhussy, today was the first time I've ever seen one of your videos. I ended up watching 5(five) more. I really enjoyed them. I like your manner of speaking. You make it easy to listen to. You kind of remind me of Huell Howser.But not interviewing anybody, not limited to one state. And better looking. Interesting places and information. Plan on watching a few more before I go to bed. And I plan on trying to catch up. Keep up the good work.
Another super video Sarah. You really know how to turn a funny phrase, and the animal petting footage was adorable !
That old engine at 4:50 is a Fairbanks- Morse diesel engine. Looks to be a single cylinder. It may have been used to power the hoists in an old mine.
Fairbanks-Morse is a engine manufacturer, so the Fairbanks-Morse in the video is an engine that was once used to power some type of equipment. Hence the reason for the large fly wheel on the engine, this would power a piece of equipment with a flat belt on the fly wheel.
Fairbanks-Morse is known to me from my navy days as a manufacturer of air compressors and deisel engines. If they made pumps and other equipment which could support mining and etc, I wouldn't be surprised.
They did.
When I see you've uploaded a new video my life stops and I put down whenever I'm doing, I sit down and enjoy.....
OMG so we were JUST there!!! we RV camped there from Saturday to Weds....dangit I would have loved it if we had run in to you...that woulda been bonkers....Longstreet is a GREAT, cheap place to camp....full hook ups...plenty of places to visit while you stay there and fantastic internet speed....I give it 5 stars! you can explore Ash Meadows from here....which is why we chose it...we used our E Bikes and covered about 90 miles in 4 days...it's a beautiful place to visit!!
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Hi Wonderhussy. Two in one day! Thank You!
Thanks again! I do tons of desert road tripping in many of the paces you feature. So many questions are answered by you. It's appreciated!
I’ve bought 4 cars from Jim Marsh. He is a nice man. He always sends a thank you note for buying the car. In his dealerships there are TONS of cool items like you are seeing there. I think it is so much fun to see these wild and wonderful collections.
I love these out of the way places. Never been there. Looks like you're feeling better. 👍
the Holy Cow Brewery!!!! "Moo for a Brew!!" how could anyone forget that stinkhole!
Lol
@@josephbellomo3876 No Really, there used to be a chalk board at the entrance in the foyer area that had that written on it! I was there in approximately 2000-2001 ish.... was dank and nasty and the carpet spelled as if it should have been removed years before.... Would have been on the more less known dive bar tour for sure. I did not moo nor have a brew there because of the stink. LoL, but it is cool to know where the cow went!
🌵Hey SARAH JANE , thank you for all the great video’s . You do a wonderful job and your Witt and historical commentary always brings me laugh’s.🌿. Thanks for all your hard work and your talent.
We stayed there in May. We loved it. Got out of the car and were greeted by the ducks!
Thank you. I have been there but never explored the grounds. I'm for sure planning a stay! No stupid California 22 dollar resort fee. Reasonable RV rates for what you get!
You were right, that's a grain thresher. Originally powered by a steam tractor and pulley belt.
I'll have to try that place. Looks great.
It looks like a museum…I think it looks interesting…I like 👍 it!
My son was a chef here 30+ years ago. They had plans to build a golf course then and an air strip. Guess that went away with the mine too.
I would stay there for sure and love the petting zoo. Hope it survives.
12:52 yup, that’s a thresher… My grandpa had one just like it… we got it working in the 80s, but it’s rusted to dust now
Very interesting casino. Would be interested in stopping by. Looks so clean and well kept. Great video!!!!!!
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I've stayed there before on the way to Death Valley. Remember it being pretty good but slightly expensive and slightly smokey. Also the bar across the street is pretty cool; everyone who visits writes on the wall.
Went by that many times earlier last year when I lived in Tonopah to drive to 29 palms, ca on the weekends. CHP likes to prowl the California side of that highway, I used to drive about 90MPH down that highway all the way through to 66
looking good Wonderhussy, love watching, keep up the good work...
Hey Sarah, wonderful job as always. Was really nice to see the animals be super gentle. Definitely an interesting place to check out someday
Alfalfa cubes for the sheep and goats
My wife and I are going out to Phoenix from Memphis for our 30th anniversary in April. Our Mr and Mrs is inflated just fine thank you. 😂
My wife and I spent a night there back in 2014. Nice rooms and good food 👌
Just the idea of something being in the middle of nowhere I'm guessing would be an attraction ...
I've stayed at this hotel at least 3 times. The rooms are very nice.
Jim Marsh also owns the Skyline Casino & Hotel on Boulder Highway, near Henderson.
I do have to admit you are a smart woman you know the word thrasher I'm impressed a thrasher is a farm equipment that separates the oats and makes the haystack has it been throwing out of the thrasher and the oaths going into a farm wagon I'm very impressed that you actually knew that word because I used to do that on the farm with my grandparents in the '60s it was so much fun making the haystacks I have been watching you and you are very impressive for some of the things you do know but have never done and you're not even a farm girl very very impressive now all you got to do is milk a cow castrated pig butcher a chicken and raise crops and you'll be a full-fledged farmer on that land of yours all by the way don't forget to buy the tractor took all the farm equipment with might be kind of hard with your car
I live on the east coast and was inspired by your videos to van camp across the country including Nevada, death valley and California in Nov/Dec 2021. Loved it! Thanks for your channel.
I totally intend to stay there based on your video.
I remember when Tom Wiesner bought Holy cow; now it's a pharmacy:(. He owned all the big dogs and the draft house in Vegas. Spent a couple summers partying in his guest house. Good times.
Tom was great guy and was big booster for UNLV and Wisconsin. It's funny how this girl can show a cow in the middle of know where and bring back great memories.
Hello Wonder Hussey the 2 videos as always were Awesome , I've been subscribed to your channel now for a few years now and all of your content is just absolutely Wonderful , and because of you I've found Larry and all of the incredible friends that I have made because of You and of course Larry. Stay safe out there and I look forward to seeing more of your videos.