Wickieup (Kingman: for sale, drive, town)

[mosesmoses]

Originally Posted by Steve Pickering

I pay $6 to $12 a year for each 1/2 acre lot I own in three places in arizona.

I think I should buy 10 or 20 acres now, around Wikieup. I will be retiring in 20 years, and the land price now is low.
And, in Arizona only about 18% of the land is privately owned.

[rambrush]

Originally Posted by Steve Pickering

Pumping gas, pumping toilets, waitress ... Did I miss any?

Well lets see
add Cowboys, ADOT, DPS, to the mix

there is no fire or medical in town. believe there is a tow truck and salvage yard in town oh yes there is the wood furniture chair builder they did the dining room set up at the hualapai mtn lodge.

[darena89]

Sorry fellas - I don't mean to be repetitative - but how would you expect someone from a big city to know what a stick house is? That's why I ask questions on the board - you people know more than me!!

[Tanque Verde]

At one time Wickieup had a lot more going on. It was a way station of sorts for trucking companies and even greyhound bus. As the freeways went so to went the traffic.
We used it as a relay point for trucking unleaded gas into Las Vegas up until 1989. Two drivers working together, one from Vegas & the other from Phoenix, by swapping trucks in Wickieup could run two loads per shift. One driver working by himself had to layover therefore he was unable to complete even one load during his shift.

[darena89]

Then what happened!!

[observer53]

The poster SAID the truck traffic moved to the freeway routes. They take other, faster routes on interstate highways instead of the slower Hwy 93. Parts of it have been widened since the gas trucks left, but it's still no freeway.

[mosesmoses]

Originally Posted by darena89

Sorry fellas - I don't mean to be repetitative - but how would you expect someone from a big city to know what a stick house is? That's why I ask questions on the board - you people know more than me!!

I never heard of a stick frame house.I think, maybe just a few dozen people who would know what a stick frame house is.

[adolpho]

For several years in the 1990s, there was a DPS trailer set up there and kind of a narcotics checkpoint.

[Steve Pickering]

Originally Posted by mosesmoses

I never heard of a stick frame house.I think, maybe just a few dozen people who would know what a stick frame house is.

More like tens of thousands if not millions or at least hundreds of thousands.

Very common term. Stick Built means the same. It means Not a Manufactured or Mobile Home and is built in place. Not common in most rural areas of Arizona. Mobiles are much more common.

Now do you know what Brick and Mortar means?

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Frankly, I thought almost everybody knew what it meant. Maybe only those older than 25?