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Originally Posted by 66joej
I think Oatman is getting a bit like some other tourist attractions along Route 66. A bit too commercialized in my opinion. This last visit you have to buy food for the donkeys from vendors. Seems the animals need to have their droppings produced for easy pickup. I can see the point there but $5-7 for a little more than a hand full of food is a bit excessive. Other than that great place to spend the day.
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Are they charging that much for burro food now? Wow! I lived in Bullhead City in the 1990's through 2002, and used to go to Oatman quite often as I had a few friends who lived there at the time.
In those days, you could get a handful of burro food from old candy machines for 50 cents. One store had little brown paper bags of burro food on a table by the door..they might have been as much as a dollar, but not more than that.
I do remember being in that store and watching a burro sneak in the door and swipe a little bag of feed, then go outside, step on it to rip it open with it's teeth, and eat the feed. The locals named the burros and could tell them apart. The lady who ran the store yelled the burro's name and hollered at it to "Get out of here" and it quickly grabbed the bag and backed out the door. She said they would sneak in and grab a bag anytime they thought she wasn't looking.
There were always several torn paper bags on the boardwalk out front.