You can look up the details about Oatman online but it's an old mining town where they mined alot of gold. The mines were shut down at wartime and the town was basically abandoned.

Nowadays it's a tourist trap, with the same old buildings remaining completely unchanged with the exception of added electricity. Burrows roam about the town freely while people feed and pet them..

Anyways.. I took a pic of a sign hanging on the old Oatman Hotel.
This sign is almost 100 years old! It's the original 10'x10'x5" thick solid wood, steel-edged sign. I can only assume the paint is refreshed periodically, although it does look rough in the pic below I doubt the reds would last that long. =)
The neat thing about this sign is the whole thing is flat. The panel at the bottom of the sign, the "1902" panel, the checks in the wood, the "joints" between the boards, even the bolts in the face of the sign are all painted on.

Bet Mike Languein could show us how!

Oh, Mikey.........!

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