Currant Nevada. I’d been here before, and posted about it: http://mrzip66.com/temp1/temp1/2008/07/29/currant-nevada/
I shot this earlier in the year. Currant is a ghost town that has haunted me over the years, always wondering what this place was all about. It’s out in the middle of effing nowhere, Nevada. From what I’ve found, it was one of 2 towns that were ever evacuated from nuclear testing from area 51 in the 60s. There’s always ghosts in a ghost town, and I always love to know the stories. From this place, I haven’t found any.
I posted this video on my youtube channel, and I got this yesterday:
the currant video.. I love it. I grew up there is went to school in ely… drove every day. so may good memories when my dad had it all the gangsters from Las Vegas used to come up there and hide my dad threw parties there that would last for weeks at a time and just before he died Jimmy Durante came up there and was the bartender for a few weeks I remember him so well now look at it the shell of what it was there used to be trailers there some of the hookers from the Mustang Ranch used to come there and work and staying the trailers my dad had because of all the Oil Workers my first horse there was a Mustang they caught right off the desert floor
Jimmy Durante tended bar here. Thats more than I knew last year. Pretty cool. I hit the guy up to tell me more stories, if he will…
If anyone can tell a story about this place, please email alan@mrzip66.com
Still trying to find out ore about the bar, these articles are really helping me.