A Consideration of Jerome (AZ Ghost Town), Changing Culture and Hillclimb Races

My wife and I recently spent a day in the AZ hill town (also one time ghost town) of Jerome Arizona. Throughout Jerome, I found evidence of a significant motorcycle and car history. Viewed through the lens of a large time gap between Jerome’s heyday and now, cultural changes were apparent.To those of you unfamiliar with Jerome, in the early 20thcentury Jerome was a thriving mining town, that dwindled with changing copper economies and eventually closed up shop in the 50’s. Following the mines closing, the town was largely abandoned until a collection of free thinkers and free rangers seized upon the opportunity for free housing. Eventually, the free thinking collection of inhabitants landed upon thinking of capitalism, and the…
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