Snapshots and Photographs of the early days of Havasu Palms

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Photograph and Snapshots the early days of Havasu Palms
This early Road's End road grader was pulled by donkeys.	Walt Johnson, clearing away the old tool shack. 1968.		A barbed wire fence outlined the perimeter of the Havasu Palms lease land, separating the then Federal lease land from the alleged Chemehuevi Indian Reservation.
Caroline Johnson and camp mascot, Number 7. Sadly, he disappeared in 1987.	A favorite hang out was the store porch, or "City Hall" as the locals called it. Don Holmes, early 1990's.		Taking a break, 1982. Left to right: George Morris "Butch", Gerry Guthrie, Lobo the dog, Walt Johnson, and Charley Jones.
Rustic living, the mid-seventies at Havasu Palms. Don Holmes and Bobbi Johnson.	Road's End restaurant under construction, 1981. Left to right: Walt Johnson, Peter King, Steve Galloway.		New docks underway.
Walt Johnson grading the road.	Store docks.		A view of the boat slips.
Walt Johnson, updating the boat slips.	One of the original Havasu Palms gas docks, 1968.		The night before the Grand Opening of the Road's End Restaurant, October 9, 1981. Left to right: Walt Johnson, Glen Key.
Walt Johnson	Road's End Restaurant, circa 1980's. Left to right: Steve Galloway, Walt Johnson, Lynn Johnson Galloway.		Trash detail; Left to right: Mike Russom, Gary Morris, Brad Klima, Tim Loyd (driver), Hank Davidson, Chuck Loyd, and Jim Rhodes. Easter Holiday, 1972.
Walt Johnson supervises dynamiting to widen the Havasu Palms road. Photo taken abt 1973.		One Havasu Palms tradition involved tenants, who would annually decorate a desert tree for the holidays. The environmentally conscious merry makers would always "un-decorate" the tree after New Years. Circa 1970

In 1968 Mike Russom wrote the song Havasu Man, His verse "Indians raisin heck about a shack in the back" is about a group of buildings that were situated on reservation land, at the border of the original Havasu Palms leasehold. Bob Orchard and his family continued to rent this portion of land from the Chemehuevi Tribe, long after he had sold his interest in Road's End Camp. They used the property for infrequent family vacations. Orchard's permit with the Tribe was on a year to year basis. By the early 1980's the Tribe refused to renew Orchard's permit. In the early 1990's members of the Chemehuevi Tribe burned the buildings - which almost set the Road's End Restaurant ablaze.

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Photograph and Snapshots the early days of Havasu Palms

Photograph and Snapshots the early
days of Havasu Palms