Desert Bar Near Parker, Arizona or Is this Thunderdome?

Nellie E. Saloon is known far and wide as The Desert Bar.  It's located in the Buckskin Mountains at an old Nelle E. mining camp.  The Desert Bar opened in 1983 and is open only on weekends, except for summers. Buildings have been added as the business has grown.

Located in a natural bowl,
Eric imagines Mad Max
Beyond Thunderdome
when we arrive.

The rusted out hulk of

a car overlooking the

parking lot adds to

this feeling.

Cross the bridge to enter The Desert Bar.

Buildings "climb" up

the hillside.

The stacks are used

for cooling.

Eric imagines the bowl ringed with people chanting as two men enter Thunderdome... and one man leaves.....

An old tanker truck sits

above a seating area

& the kitchen.

The church towers above

one of the seating areas.

The Briana Payne Band

plays country music.

Lunch...

Eric & I have cheese

burgers 

& share the fries with Dave,

who has a veggie wrap

Kathy dives into the nachos.

We see the rusted out
hulk of a truck as
we leave....




Come out to The Desert Bar, and see for yourself.....  it's the perfect location for any
dystopian film set in the future.