The Sage of Salome - True West Magazine
True West Magazine His real name was DeForest Hall, but he took the middle name Wick for town of Wickenburg, Arizona and “Dick” because he needed a first name to rhyme with his middle name. In 1904 he, with the help of Charles W. Pratt established a community in a valley Dick Wick called Happy Valley. It was here where Mrs. Pratt aka Salome, decided to walk barefoot in the hot desert sand and proceeded to “dance.” He opened a gas station on a forlorn spot he named Salome on the Los Angeles to Phoenix highway in the 1920s. He called his establishment the “Laughing Gas Station.” Adv...
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