Maybell is still there, looks like it has maybe 5 sidestreets and then
nothing except roads leading away from it. I would estimate population
to be around 75-100 people. I'm surprised you didn't end up stranded
and settle there.
Rand E.
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lclark@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In <4.1.20000616205920.03ab7730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 06/16/00 at 09:32
> PM,
> "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> >Much of the best is found down some county section line
> >road 3-5 miles from the nearest State Highway . . . usually very near a
> >creek or river.
>
> Ya want a challenge? I'll give ya a challenge...
>
> In 1947 [how many of you were even born then?], when it was still safe
> to do so, I hitch-hiked from college in Cambridge, Mass. to Glendale,
> California, to spend the summer with my roommate's family. There were
> many memorable moments of that trip, but one of those that sticks the
> longest in memory was a sojourn in the town of Maybell, Colorado. I
> waited there for twelve hours for a ride. Not a car came through. I
> finally threw in the towel and took the Greyhound bus into Haber City to
> look for another hitch across Death Valley. Had I not taken the bus, I
> probably would have had to wait numerous days before another bus came
> through. Very probably, there wouldn't have been a single car through
> there until the next bus.
>
> Maybell had three buildings. One was a barn. One was a general store.
> One was a post office. Oh yes, there was a telephone pole, equipped with
> the necessary wires so they weren't cut off from the outside world
> altogether. There may even have been a tree and/or a bush. All else was
> low hills, dirt and sand and, of course, a burning sun.
>
> Your challenge, should you care to accept it, is to portray Maybell
> attractively enough to entice at least one person to move there.
>
> For all I know, Maybell is now a major metropolis. I haven't been back
> there since [grin].
>
> les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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