Moqui Lodge at Grand Canyon N.P. 1981

This was the 1981 recruiting video for Moqui Lodge that once stood at the S. Entrance to Grand Canyon National Park. Moqui is gone now, torn down in 2005, nearly 80 years after Rudolph "Chick" Kirby created the tourist camp on the sundown side of Highway 64.
"Moqui was beloved by its employees who knew it as a tight-knit and tolerant place, with few of the restrictions that were the norm for resort workers inside Grand Canyon National Park." says author Jay Thompson, "I'd always felt that Moqui was my ace in the hole—or fallback position—if my life ever bottomed out. I thought of it, like Robert Frost said, as "the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." And it stood as a symbol of the time when life's possibilities were as bright and limitless as a sunrise over the Grand Canyon."

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[pasnthru1954]

I worked there around '78 or'79. I had a terrific time. I could not spend all the money we made there. Jose was there along with Sarah ( saw them both in the video). Met a girlfriend named Jay. We moved to Tucson from there. Fond memories.

[rede4summer]

I worked there in 89 and 90! Loved it :) So sad its gone!

[trickhound]

I worked at Moqui in 91 and 92. Bummer that it's now gone.

[karengodwin]

the biggest mistake ever made was to tear this down.

[forbree]

I worked at moqui lodge. i loved it. i think one of the head chefs was named Burt. i worked there 2 seasons