If you're old enough, or if you're interested in obscure American folk songs, you might have heard Burl Ives sing "The Big Rock Candy Mountain."
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| Back in the "olden days" (before Interstate highways), my family made many trips by car between Phoenix, Arizona, and Salt Lake City, Utah. My dad always liked to see how far he could actually go on a tank of gas before he 1) found a station that wasn't "on the wrong side of the highway" or 2) ran out. (Men have odd ideas about what constitutes having an adventure.) Sometimes, he chose to take U.S. Highway 89 between Panguitch and Richfield, UT. Along that highway was a little town called Marysvale, wthere was located a place called Big Rock Candy Mountain. We stopped there, now and then. On one of those nows or thens, I picked up a small advertising brochure and I still have it. When closed, it measures 5 1/4" high by 3 1/2" wide. If you're old enough, or if you're interested in obscure American folk songs, you might have heard Burl Ives sing "The Big Rock Candy Mountain." |
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