{"id":9178,"date":"2023-02-11T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T23:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2023-02-11T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T23:43:56","slug":"gold-rush-days-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/11\/gold-rush-days-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Rush Days 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our little town has an annual event called “Gold Rush Days” in honor of the town’s reason for being: the discovery of gold in 1863 by Henry Wickenburg. Vulture Mine<\/a> became the most productive mine in Arizona history. This weekend marks the 75th celebration of Gold Rush Days.
\nThe festivities included a Rodeo, a carnival, a giant flea market, a classic car show and a parade.<\/p>\n

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The carnival featured food concessions, fun houses and a number of rides from gentle kiddie merry-go-rounds<\/a> to full-on vomit comet<\/a> rides. The midway completely encircled our town’s community center. We walked through the midway but did not participate in either food or rides. We took a lot of photos, though.<\/p>\n

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The flea market had most of the usual stuff like home-made arts and crafts, souvenir vendors, apparel vendors and a myriad of other interesting things to see. That’s Damsel in her big shade hat perusing wooden pots and bowls.<\/p>\n

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We toured the classic car area on Friday afternoon. The usual cars were on display. There were a lot of old classics, some Hot Rods and a couple of rare cars.<\/p>\n

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The parade started at ten AM AZ time on Saturday Morning (02\/11\/2023). Damsel and I saw the whole parade of equestrians, local organizations, classic cars on parade, a politician or two and law enforcement\/fire department vehicles. The parade went for over an hour. <\/p>\n

Damsel and I enjoyed our visits to the exhibits, vending, classics and who doesn’t love a parade. Between the two of us, we took a thousand plus photos this weekend. There are only a few of them shown here. Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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