US Gypsum to close. Gerlach to dry up and blow away?

[ygmir]

hey pretty soon, I could be the fireman......and the stonecutter.........

[TomServo]

If we can buy Empire, can I be the town Butcher?


Now that I think about it....I'm more serious about it than you may think. I've wanted to be a Butcher ever since reading "Busy day, Busy people" as a kid.

we may have to put in a greyhound bus stop, then..........
Do you have a hockey mask?

Sadly no..... but I do have a Balaclava

[Thecatman]

hey pretty soon, I could be the fireman......and the stonecutter.........

If the towns name was changed to ygmirville, you should be mayor as well.

[ygmir]

hey pretty soon, I could be the fireman......and the stonecutter.........

If the towns name was changed to ygmirville, you should be mayor as well.

I'd not want a position, where, the hat that goes with it has a reservoir end.

[ygmir]

If we can buy Empire, can I be the town Butcher?


Now that I think about it....I'm more serious about it than you may think. I've wanted to be a Butcher ever since reading "Busy day, Busy people" as a kid.

we may have to put in a greyhound bus stop, then..........
Do you have a hockey mask?

Sadly no..... but I do have a Balaclava

a chainsaw?

[TomServo]

we may have to put in a greyhound bus stop, then..........
Do you have a hockey mask?

Sadly no..... but I do have a Balaclava

a chainsaw?

Meat Cleaver?

[Eric]

Sadly no..... but I do have a Balaclava

a chainsaw?

Meat Cleaver?

Beaver Cleaver?


This is tv trivia, right?

[TomServo]

Ask Mayor McYgmir..

[maryanimal]

I want to have the town cafe! A joint for the locals and tourists! Maybe we should be a destination town like having the worlds largest fill in the blank,

[TomServo]

I want to have the town cafe! A joint for the locals and tourists! Maybe we should be a destination town like having the worlds largest fill in the blank,

The only destination after Empire..is Gerlach....and then(for one week) Black Rock City...or the ranch. I like the idea of Ygmir as mayor! Absynthe would be our currency.

[maryanimal]

But we'd need a town rube! you know like a gomer



Or a goober

[maryanimal]

I want to have the town cafe! A joint for the locals and tourists! Maybe we should be a destination town like having the worlds largest fill in the blank,

The only destination after Empire..is Gerlach....and then(for one week) Black Rock City...or the ranch. I like the idea of Ygmir as mayor! Absynthe would be our currency.

I meant a "destination" place where people go to see something in particular or to vacation, etc.

[ygmir]

*steps on soap box*

Absinthe for all!!!
Beaver Cleaver, for councilman
Maryanimals biscuits for breakfast (and, hopefully, she'll bake something, as well)
TomServo the "hockey masked chainsaw butcher" (I'll provide the tool, Tom)


Who's gonna be Gomer? Who sings well, and, wants to be a Marine?
Who's gonna be Goober?

dang. spots are filling.

What happens if the Clampetts show up?
I'll handle Ellie May........doing what I can to keep the town safe.

A destination place?

*trying to remember, either Twilight Zone or Outer limits, where the people in the town were zoo attractions, for aliens*

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Box Burner]

*steps on soap box*

Absinthe for all!!!
Beaver Cleaver, for councilman
Maryanimals biscuits for breakfast (and, hopefully, she'll bake something, as well)
TomServo the "hockey masked chainsaw butcher" (I'll provide the tool, Tom)


Who's gonna be Gomer? Who sings well, and, wants to be a Marine?
Who's gonna be Goober?

dang. spots are filling.

What happens if the Clampetts show up?
I'll handle Ellie May........doing what I can to keep the town safe.

A destination place?

*trying to remember, either Twilight Zone or Outer limits, where the people in the town were zoo attractions, for aliens*

Slaughterhouse 5

[Playa Foot]

Lets buy Empire and incorporate it. I want to be the traffic cop, bust all them hippies going to Burning Man and confiscate their drugs.

Some new people took over the store a few months ago and when I was last there the shelves were full, the place was clean and the people had a nice attitude. Sadly the store is owned by USG and will probably close with thr rest of the town.

There is a meeting this Wednesday Dec. 8 about the BLM permit for Burning Man I hope to attend and see what is going on in Gerlach and Empire. With the closing of the USG plant Burning Man may be the largest employer in the area.

[oneeyeddick]

Once again, not new people running the store.

The store's owner just sold it outright to his daughter, who was essentially running it anyhow.

Talk about bad timing.

I've never seen anyone there working with a bad attitude, regardless.

[AntiM]

*steps on soap box*

Absinthe for all!!!
Beaver Cleaver, for councilman
Maryanimals biscuits for breakfast (and, hopefully, she'll bake something, as well)
TomServo the "hockey masked chainsaw butcher" (I'll provide the tool, Tom)


Who's gonna be Gomer? Who sings well, and, wants to be a Marine?
Who's gonna be Goober?

dang. spots are filling.

Not much of a jump from Anti M to Aunt Bea.
My grandmother was named Beatrice, very nearly was my given name.

[oneeyeddick]

Moderater B doesn't have the same cadence, I'm glad they went with Maggie.

[AntiM]

Moderater B doesn't have the same cadence, I'm glad they went with Maggie.

Not many people really call me Maggie, I am a Margaret most days.

Had I been named for both grandmothers, the original plan, I would be Beatrice Merle. Blergh. Dad wanted "Robin" but mom was high as a kite after the birth, on oxygen she said, and insisted my name was Margaret Eileen. That's what ended up on my official certificate, but the pretty one from the hospital, with all the fancy engraving and seals, calls me "Baby Girl Castle".

[Simon of the Playa]

dont feel so bad......my middle name is Jerome.


My Patron Saint was a Translator.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome

[lonestoner916]

But we'd need a town rube! you know like a gomer



Or a goober

Ooh me, me, pick me!

[Sham]

Some of the stories that are starting pop up are doom and gloom. I think that the BM event does not really require the local towns to survive, but the local areas are going to be devistated. With the local USG housing being shut down, the local residents MUST move somewhere--probably out of the local area. Some articles seem to look at the BM festival to support and donate to the two affected towns, at the same time, the police expect to poke the participants in the eye with tickets for speeding 1 mph over the speed limit, and nuisanse stops looking for reasons to give revenue producing fines.
No matter what the real ramifications of the closing of the plant, it is going to have a HUGE effect on everything that we know in the area.

http://gawker.com/5706491/nevadas-burni ... e-burn-out

Nevada's 'Burning Man' Towns Face Burn Out

The small Nevada towns near the 'Burning Man' festival site are effectively jobless and broke after USG Corp., which owns a gypsum mine and produces wallboard, announced the closure of its local operations. What will happen to the drug festival?

USG Corp. owns the town of Empire, 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada, and employs nearly everyone in the town of Gerlach, which is near the Burning Man site. The company informed residents that they could stay in company-owned housing until the school year ends in June, according to a report in the Reno Gazette-Journal. Economist Elliott Parker told the paper, "If the idling isn't temporary and (USG) doesn't come back in a year or two, I'd have a hard time imagining Burning Man could continue there." Others disagree. The executive director of Friends of Black Rock/High Rock, Matthew Ebert, said Burning Man is primarily run from Reno, and "The event relies less on the infrastructure of Gerlach than perhaps what people think."

Nevada's 14.2 percent unemployment rate is the highest in the country. But maybe there's a solution to Gerlach's woes — Perhaps the people who run Burning Man, who make a shitload of money off the annual festival, could help out and employ some of the town's 465 people?

[lonestoner916]

Some of the stories that are starting pop up are doom and gloom. I think that the BM event does not really require the local towns to survive, but the local areas are going to be devistated. With the local USG housing being shut down, the local residents MUST move somewhere--probably out of the local area. Some articles seem to look at the BM festival to support and donate to the two affected towns, at the same time, the police expect to poke the participants in the eye with tickets for speeding 1 mph over the speed limit, and nuisanse stops looking for reasons to give revenue producing fines.
No matter what the real ramifications of the closing of the plant, it is going to have a HUGE effect on everything that we know in the area.

http://gawker.com/5706491/nevadas-burni ... e-burn-out

Nevada's 'Burning Man' Towns Face Burn Out

The small Nevada towns near the 'Burning Man' festival site are effectively jobless and broke after USG Corp., which owns a gypsum mine and produces wallboard, announced the closure of its local operations. What will happen to the drug festival?

USG Corp. owns the town of Empire, 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada, and employs nearly everyone in the town of Gerlach, which is near the Burning Man site. The company informed residents that they could stay in company-owned housing until the school year ends in June, according to a report in the Reno Gazette-Journal. Economist Elliott Parker told the paper, "If the idling isn't temporary and (USG) doesn't come back in a year or two, I'd have a hard time imagining Burning Man could continue there." Others disagree. The executive director of Friends of Black Rock/High Rock, Matthew Ebert, said Burning Man is primarily run from Reno, and "The event relies less on the infrastructure of Gerlach than perhaps what people think."

Nevada's 14.2 percent unemployment rate is the highest in the country. But maybe there's a solution to Gerlach's woes — Perhaps the people who run Burning Man, who make a shitload of money off the annual festival, could help out and employ some of the town's 465 people?

THIS GUY IS A FUCKING ASSHAT.

I think that's the correct term, though I suppose uninformed douchebag would also have been apt.

edit: Check out some of the comments!

[lucky420]

He obviously knows nothing about it. As if everyone buys everything they need in Gerlach/Empire...RGJ has some really idiotic reporting at times.

[JStep]

"What will happen to the drug festival?"

Nothing like determinedly biased reporting.

[Sham]

"What will happen to the drug festival?"

Indeed, what will happen to our festival. But also and more important, what will happen to the people who have lived in this very real neighborhood and town of Empire for gernerations and know this place as HOME---the ony home they know. I know that the house are owned by USG, but if you live there for years and years, it becomes THEIR HOME.
Burning Man will take place as scheduled in August of 2011. There will be no Empire Store to stop at and mingle for a few minutes while we all get our first feel for the playa, and we may go around the side of the building looking for porta potties to pee. Most everything will be the same. 2012 will be a very different story. Most of the lights will be turned off and the place will have a noticable vacant feeling. The Post Office will probably be shuttered--opening maybe 2 days a week for the few people still hanging on--hoping for a miracle. (I hesitate to say that there will be no miracle)
Will the decision makers of the Burning Man Festival keep this event in northern Nevada, or with they decide that with no infrastructure in the area, decide to take a break for a year while they find a new location for this event to take place? Will they buy up more of the town of Gerlach and make it a festival owned town? Maybe a year round artsy fartsy community that becomes its very own destination on a map?
Stay tuned as things continue to develop over the next several months.

[oneeyeddick]

Gerlach and Empire have seperate post offices.

[Simon of the Playa]

Maybe a year round artsy fartsy community that becomes its very own destination on a map?

MORE ARTSY, LESS FARTSY.

[FIGJAM]

More farty art!