Sagebrush Motel

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Sagebrush Motel is a small motel located in Antelope Valley, Nevada and just across the road from the Redlite Ranch Bordello.

The Sagebrush was the second motel in town, after the Antelop Valley Inn. It was built in 1959 and early business was dependent upon viewing of giant mushroom clouds after Nuclear Tests at Jackass Flats, not too far away. After the test bans, it became dependent upon people earning Nevada residency requirements to qualify for a quick divorce, at a much cheaper rate than Reno or Las Vegas.

The Sagebrush was built by Art Johnson, who was still running it forty years later when Danny Evachevski stayed there in 1999.^SQ01

"The Sagebrush Motel was a small place, built of cinder block, with about a dozen rooms."^SQ01 As Shirley Hoffman described it, "It's not a bad motel, it's just small and old. Art keeps it clean."^MC11 The rooms do have phones in them, which don't necessarily hang up just because you knock them to the floor.^MC12