Dick Wick Hall - Salome, AZ - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

This desert town was made famous by the humor of Dick Wick Hall, healthseeker and operator of the laughing gas station. Hall's publication the Salome Sun was filled with extravagant tales of the desert's adaptation of species. He told of his frog that was seven years old and never learned to swim.

He wrote an article about himself for publication in the Saturday Evening Post. This particular excerpt about Salome is very touching ~
"This valley, about fifteen miles wide and forty miles long, lying between the Harqua Hala and the Harcuvar Mountains, appealed to me strangely the first time I came to it; not only its abundant warmth but the wonderful peace and quiet of it, which only a dweller of the desert can understand and appreciate. ....., ........ where I can get acquainted with myself and maybe find the something which every man in his own soul is consciously or unconsciously searching for - Himself."
His granddaughter, Robin R. Cutler recently wrote -
"Like other Southwestern humorist, Dick Wick Hall had a vivid imagination. His work is full of exaggeration and satire. Some of his targets were human nature, Easterners, Westerners, prospecting, and his beloved town of Salome which he promoted by making fun of it. Hall misspelled words deliberately and used capital letters indiscriminately. He said he had learned to type on a typewriter that had "lost a Lot of Its teeth." He then decided he liked the way his pages looked when he could "break the monotony of so many Little Letters."

Description: "Arizona's most Famous Humorist".... Publisher of the "Salome Sun" 1925 - 1926.... Owner of the "Laughing Gas" Gas Station Date of birth: 03/20/1877 Date of death: 04/28/1926 Area of notoriety: Other Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: none Fee required?: No Web site: Not listed

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