In the heart of Amargosa Valley, this Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style building was first established in 1923, and built to support a company town staffing the Pacific Coast Borax Company in nearby Death Valley.
There’s no better place to embrace an honorary dose of Weird Nevada than the barely-over-the-border Amargosa Opera House, whose late proprietress Marta Becket performed ballet and opera to a painted audience, and anyone who showed up to visit nearby Death Valley National Park for more than 40 years. Can you think of a more Weird Nevada appropriate story, especially one that’s 100 percent true? A Broadway dancer breaks down in the desert, converts a pioneer old stage stop into her performing venue, and proceeds to paint her audience around her. If you were writing a Hollywood script about a dusty, Western outpost and the quirky characters who inhabited it, you couldn’t do better than the story of the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, situated along the Nevada-California border at the gateway to Death Valley National Park.
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