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] Date Posted:03:08:10 09/23/09 Wed In reply to:
Noelle
's message, "Nevada Place Names" on 00:59:03 09/23/09 Wed
>Apparently Spearfish Lake and Bradford aren't the only
>place-names you are inventing, Wes! As a native
>Nevadan, I've been interested to read Magic
>Carpet, as much of it is set in my neck of the
>woods... and I have to giggle when I read about Shelby
>County and now Piute County, which are not real
>counties in Nevada, but sound like they could be!
>Question: where is Shelby County vaguely supposed to
>be, anyway?
>Thanks for another great story; I can't wait to see
>what happens!
Well, I'm not sure about Shelby county, but Wes left a whole passel of clues to find Clark County:
"a paved emergency runway - near there had been a bombing range target several miles away at Jackass Flats - the runway, and the Las Vegas/Reno highway that ran close by."
"The middle of nowhere is out that way . . ." she pointed back over her shoulder ". . . about twenty miles, Jackass Flats, where they used to set off atomic bomb tests."
"... we're about two hundred yards this side of the Clark County line. This is actually the closest legal house to Las Vegas, we're about twenty miles closer than the houses in Pahrump,"
So if you were trying to find the ‘Redlite Ranch Bordello' using those clues, it has to be somewhere along 95 - say between Camp Desert Rock and Indian Springs. So we know that they're almost on the edge of ‘Clark County,' and weren't they in Piute County?
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Date Posted:11:33:08 09/23/09 Wed
>That one just requires a map of Nevada. Clark County
>on my Rand McNally is the southern tip of the state,
>the one that has the town of Las Vegas in it
>
>Clark County and Las Vegas are real places.
>
>I haven't looked for the others.
>
>Dmitri
Well, since I was going by memory and I was positive that I remembered Reno being northwest of Las Vegas, so I suppose I was looking in the wrong direction.
By the way, and this has little to do with the story, but I can say from personal observation that the area Wes is describing was an 'adventure' to drive in the 1960's, especially at the wheel of an eighteen wheeler.
Date Posted:13:01:37 10/07/09 Wed
When I was reading this, my first impression was Lathrop Wells, at the Junction of US 95 and NV 373, home of the actual Cherry Patch. (http://www.cherrypatchwhorehouse.com/)
Date Posted:14:27:53 10/07/09 Wed
>When I was reading this, my first impression was
>Lathrop Wells, at the Junction of US 95 and NV 373,
>home of the actual Cherry Patch.
Bearing in mind that Piute County and the Redlite are fictional, yeah, they probably would have to be located around there somewhere.
