Jeff Pickett & Paulie Payne’s
1950s Home Built
Max and Jenny were the best hosts ever and their
little town is well worth a stop over if you are ever
heading that way. The buildings that surround the
central Town Hall are all built like a historic village with a
general store, saloon, barber shop, candy store and even
a bordello, but inside they are all self-contained rentable
cabins. They also have a house bus decked out in retro
style complete with its own ensuite bathroom available
for accommodation. In Max’s hot rod workshop he was
busy working on building a teardrop camper to go with
his lime green hot rod. Everywhere you look there is
something to make you smile or laugh; old cars, old signs,
a set of naked silver mannequins in the gardens, the
sign post adorned with so many street names pointing
in every direction, the gnomes in the garden, the bath
tub full of spring flowers in bloom. It truly is a little piece
of paradise. Hearing Max recall how close they came
to losing it all when the bushfires came down from the
nearby Grampian mountains only a couple of years ago
and seeing the photos and video footage he recorded
of it is incredible. They managed to save their property
by soaking the entire perimeter with water and were
lucky that they nothing was damaged even through the
surrounding farmland and mountains were consumed by
the blazing inferno. Max and Jenny have also travelled
all across America and done Route 66 and have plenty of
good yarns to tell about their adventures and there are
always a lot of jokes thrown in for good measure.
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