A Drive Through Bisbee Arizona

[EivomSeb2011]

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[SixToeKitty]

Momma & Daddy got married in B. in 47. She moved from Arkanasas and taught at Horace Mann Jr. High. Uncle Vernon and Uncle Will worked in the copper mines for many years, lived downtown across from the Am. Legion and Elks club in a ratty walk up apartment.

Died of emphysemia. I love Bisbee and love this Drive through it, my personal history

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[jackpark7927]

I wish it weren't so close to the border...I'd visit it more often.

[anderarizona]

Been there, visited the museum and bought some honey from the killer bee guy! Nice town, reminds me of Europe!

[blewzluvr]

Banjo Ginny was my Mom too.

[VoodooPolitico]

I bought a dime bag at a gas station on the edge of Bisbee from a kid named Chucky who had on one of those "Billy Jack" style cowboy hats. I think his girlfriend was named Fiona or something. At the same gas station I bought a Mountian Dew and some cigarettes. I dont know what the cashiers name was. She was a porky yet cute little thing. She looked like she needed some sun...all pasty and stuff. Thats funny because everybody we saw in Bisbee had a tan.

[TommyAppleseedS]

@VoodooPolitico I bought a QP is the general store within MINUTES of my arrival in town. Needless to say, I stayed for a year.

[Exeunt26]

Watching that dragged me right back to when I visited Bisbee in March 1999, coming down through the 'Time Tunnel' and round into town at night with jet lag. A laid back place, for UK people I'd say it's a mix of Glastonbury village and Hebden Bridge - lots of stetsons with grey pony tails when I was there - an arty, liberal enclave on a sky island in the middle of Arizona. I want to go back and see what it's like now.

[AG4NK]

I remember in Bisbee, one day I went up a hill some of my friend lived there.

he let me welcome to stay his house, when I walk toward back his yard.

I look down straight down I saw a very steep cliff in his back yard it ts so beautiful little town. I love it to visit it again soon.

This was last time I was visit there is 1972 I remember July 4th.

It was so many hippies back those years.

Now it pass 37 years ago.

It is good place to retired lived there

I don,t mind a bit if I know people.

[sh4p3shifter]

doug stanhope lives here.

[TheMahagoni]

this place is way up in the holy shit man it's so freakin awesome just like a damn old west movie scene

[TheMahagoni]

@TeamJacobForeva1 yeah man it's the old west

[TheMahagoni]

@TeamJacobForeva1 man hows the chicks there? haha xD

seriously

[TheMahagoni]

@TeamJacobForeva1 just sayin man haha

[Nilsfried]

wow, Arizona is so damn amazing... I would very like to go there and maybe settle there

[aidrianblue77]

Pretty town. Beautiful state.

[Maxfli82]

Nice video. Nice selection of music. What is the name and artist of the song?

[Taharah007]

@Maxfli82 About 40 years ago..a more apt tune would have been "Town Without Pity" But that's another story...waiting to be told one day...

[cmgrbhot]

nice job of capturing the various looks of this unique, old western town. i passed through over 30 years ago, visiting w/ friends who had moved there from santa cruz, ca. in the early 80's. very special place. thanks for sharing it w/ me.

chris g.

[kels007788]

yeah this is only old bisbee.... theres a bit more to the town

[mokaaono]

BTW that was only Old B...

[BallsInYourJawsBitch]

Tombstone is the town too tough to die, Bisbee is the town too afraid to grow up.

Town of hippies! Beautiful though.

[Taharah007]

@BallsInYourJawsBitch As coined by Rosina's father Delfino, Tombstone was the town too STUBBORN TO GIVE UP! It is not a TOWN FULL OF HIPPIES anymore...Just a bunch of people who don't really want a conventional lifestyle..and live a free life...some may say..I go back once in awhile..Of course all of us NATIVES are gonie...but my daughter lives there. Bisbee is UNIQUE, but you have to really want to be a "loner" to live there. I love the SERBIAN architecture and rugged, rusty hills.

[BallsInYourJawsBitch]

@Taharah007

Bisbee, a town too far up its own ass to realize it's a liberal dumpster of human kind.

[mrpaupie]

Thank you, that was beautiful. I am dying to visit Bisbee someday and might even like to retire there.

[Taharah007]

@mrpaupie Great place to retire...

[akytilop]

I always enjoy visiting Bisbee; a scenic town with lots of history. Here in PA we have a mini Bisbee in the town of Jim Thorpe which is built on a slope in a narrow canyon.

[PUTSOUTHINYOURMOUTH]

I do miss living here. It is such a charming place. The drive down through Mule Pass Tunnel and down highway 80 and up Tombstone Canyon Rd. is unlike any you will ever have.

[sundayweiss44]

for many years we went back for the annual coaster race, I was also born in the Copper Queen Hospital. I always joke I am a copper miners daughter.

[sundayweiss44]

I was born in Bisbee Az, and my first name is Sunday, and when people look at my birth certificate, very few know of bisbee, my dad grand father, and a little while my father worked in the copper queen mines, I rember going to Naco to eat in the resturants, and I also rember the first time I ever ate a store bought flour tortilla, I wondererd how long I would have to chew it, it was like rubber compared to the homeade tortillas we bought from a neighbor.

[clnmyjts]

what a beautiful town..I have been their once and plan to go back

THANKS

[01JonasBrothersFan]

I have been there before! Like yesterday and today and mostlikley tommarrow

[meherbjelly]

I live in bisbee and I love my little town.

[kenporich2006]

Thanks for posting. That was walk through home for me. Haven't been back in almost 20 years. Gonna make plans for a trip down this year. Thanks again.

[shellainaz]

I was in Bisbee last weekend and fell in love with it there. I am already planing a trip back. I love your video. Great Job

[onlywordsiknow]

i miss my home so much. thanks for posting this.

[SEATTLEGRL1]

The run down aspect is one of the things that appeals to me.

[SEATTLEGRL1]

One of the cities I want to see!

[jammypacked]

its alot more run down now went there last month

[aelmo713]

I'm already making plans to visit Bisbee. Looks like an awesome mountain town.

[hewasright]

The video was ok. But that is only what the typical tourist normall sees, you need to get san jose, warren, lowell, in the video.

[JellicleKat]

I've commented here before but I lived in Bisbee/Warren for only a year and a half and I miss it so much. I watch this and I video and I see the streets I use to walk down and I miss it so much. Thanks for posting this, it's just so wonderful to see the town again.

[gnarsk8te]

i live in bisbee and its impossible to skateboard there without teh cops catching you but i love this town

[blakesspace]

Nice video. We traveled there recently. The town was lovely as always but the graveyard was in a very sad state. Broke my heart to see the condition of it.

[vegas63robert]

wow I miss Bisbee I wanna go back

[876234ABC]

Thank you for that!

[bentrider1957]

You wanna real rush? Try going through the Bisbee Tunnel on a bicycle at 35-45 MPH. It is like getting shot out of a canyon!

[freedomesupporter]

I have been there once and that was about 9 years ago. I can't remember mugh of it. I will be happy to go back one day soon. I can drive down there and see the beautiful scenery. Thanks

[mekrow]

Thanks for this drive down memory Ave. I lived in Bisbee in '86, on Quarry Canyon and remember Bisbee Bob, and other artists who lived there. There was a fellow named John Milton who started a metaphysical hall called The Golden Flower. I used to hang there with my then wife, daughter and other hippie friends, Phillipe, Pascal, Alice who were hippies heavy into colonics!! What a time and what a place. I sell original woodblock prints of the places I visited there.

Thanks!!! Many memories!

[neeheh]

This is a pretty cool video, gonna visit Bisbee later this year. Anything I should check out in particular? We are probably gonna stay in the Copper Queen Hotel, and visit the Lavander pit.

[josie111100]

I lived in Bisbee the winter of 1976, there was a red and white striped house owned by Turquoise Bob, an artist named Cloud, a pottery maker named Dana and I went out with a young singer named Booker who did Cat Steven songs. There was a bartender named Guy at the Copper Queen. Lee Marvin got drunk there one day. We drank at St. Elmos. There was a man named Wolf who was Lee Marvin's old room mate. I had a friend named Judy who worked in insurance. Anyone remember those days

[billbisbee]

"Bisbee Bob" is not driving a truck, and has been away from Bisbee for several years. I know Cloud and Dana but don't know where they are now. Wolfe O'Mera died several years ago. Booker is still here and sings once in a while. Judy is still around tho. The town has been remodeled several times and most of it is owned by Californians. Each house it seems if over $200,000. Golf course is now 18 holes owned by a Canadian. I'll ask around about Guy. Kind regards.

[billbisbee]

now=not

[josie111100]

Mahalo. I have great memories of those days. If you run into Booker ask him if he remembers Joan and Vivian from Washington. I would love to hear what he is up to. Judy lived in a small house next to the grade school and I stayed with her for a short time. Also lived with a woman from Jerome named Wanda. My cousin Vivian worked at the Copper Queen. When did you move there. Houses were about 10,000 at that time. I think we paid about $140 a month for an apt.

[Taharah007]

@billbisbee  Wolf died, heh? Is it true he had a harem up in the Gulch? He was a fascinating fellow to say the least.

[rangeclerk]

@billbisbee well at least you can be happy in the sence that those from ca lost their shirt with the decrease in the price of their homes...

[bcnorris2061]

I grew up in Bisbee and graduated from High School in 1969. I consider it my home town. After the mines shut down and PD moved out it really went down hill for a while. My sister and brother live in Sierra Vista so I try to get out there from Oklahoma once in a while. This year I took videos similar to this one with some of our music. I posted it to this video. Hope you don't mind.

[billbisbee]

Of course not! I'm from Blackwell Oklahoma, been in Arizona since 1966, and Bisbee since 1983 and raised 5 kids here. Kind regards.

[bcnorris2061]

Wow, we kind of reversed didn't we?

[DarceyAchin]

I grew up in South Bisbee in the big blue house. My mom was Banjo Ginny. I miss bisbee and haven't been there in about five years.

[billbisbee]

Oh yes I think I remember her.

[placebo123]

I got tehre 2 times a yaer with my mom lol and beother

gradpa lives tehre and uncles

my mom grew up tehre :) at the elementry next to the shady dell

[twighlightinAZ]

ohh it's so pretty gotta see it!! So interesting what I've learned..I'm part Hungarian and Italian among others.:). My favorite place around here is Crown King. I always wish go there if I have the time. But now I've got to go and see Bisbee too! Sooo lovely!!! Thanx for the vid

[polakismen]

Thank you.

[sacredcorpse1]

my uncle was the mayor of bissbee once

[sainter1]

I'll try posting this comment again... Beautiful scenery. It reminds me of the drive to Kalgoolie, an old gold mining town in Western Australia. Thx for sending this to me River. :)

[RiverBirch1967]

Wonderful memories! I always go alone, for time to myself. I have not been in about 8 years.... I'll bet alot has changed.

[sainter1]

Beautiful scenery. It reminds me alot of the drive to Kalgoolie, an old gold mining town in Western Australia. Thx for sending me this River. :)

[sainter1]

The architecture of Bisbee looks to have a spanish/mexican influence. Is that true and is there a mexican connection with the town?

[RiverBirch1967]

Yes it is right on the Mexico/Arizona border.  The Old West stage ran from Tucson to Bisbee as well. It was a copper mining town and pretty rough back in the day.

[billbisbee]

Thanks for your interest Sainter1. The architecture is actually designed by an Italian and has some Hungarian influence. They were the first miners here. Mexican workers only come over when the mines were successful. Pancho Villa came across the boarder and killed 13 people in Naco Arizona of which is on the boarder line about 10 miles from Bisbee. The Mexicans had their own mine in Nacosari Mexico about 20 miles South of Naco Arizona.

[realltrue]

I was raised in Bisbee, born in 1940. There were several old folks there who were born in Bisbee while it was still Mexico.

[billbisbee]

Oh not much. Only the houses have been remodeled so many times now you can't by a house in Old Bisbee for less than $200,000.

[Vickielc]

so many good memories I lived there haven't been there in 25yrs are you from there??

went to school at Lowell and Greenway O thnk you for bringing back some memories on this cold day here in New mexico Vickie

[billbisbee]

Your very welcome!

[patton455]

Fantastic. My grandmother grew up there and now my mother and sister live there.  A great town that forces you to relax....

[Nccpastor]

Thanks for the ride through Bisbee...it's been so long since I've been back. Thanks for takin' me home for a short visit :O)

[billbisbee]

Your very welcome..I've been here 21 years and visited the town since 1972. I love this town but it's getting very expensive. I can't afford most of the restaurants.

[Palomanegra1]

going home this weekend...there is no place like Bisbee...

[Picaro1]

shit and I sold it for 25k jajajjajaj in 1990.

[Picaro1]

I used to live in Bisbee from 1980 to 1984 Carlos Franco 10 A Art Avenue. Looks like it has not change much

[billbisbee]

Real Estate has gone up 50 times since you left. 10 A Art Avenue probably is worth over $200,000 by now.

[FoxNewbold]

I love this video! I'd like to see more videos of Bisbee!

[pivoxbox]

i come from germany and here there are some nice towns., however, Bisbee is really wonderful! really.