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Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” won best picture at the Academy Awards and she became the first woman of color to win best director as a historically diverse group of winners took home awards. (April 26)
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It was the day after “Nomadland,” partly filmed in Quartzsite, Arizona, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. But the owner of a rock shop and gift store was readying a sign advertising another Quartzsite claim to fame: Home of the world’s largest belt buckle.
“I’m going to pull these guys off the freeway,” said Phil Bates, owner of the Main Trading Post on Monday as he readied the roadside sign, advertising the four-by-eight foot buckle.
One of Quartzsite’s industries has indeed been inducing drivers along Interstate 10 to turn off into the town for gas and food.
Quartzsite also hosts internationally-known rock and mineral shows and has shops that sell gems year-round.
But its other lifeblood is winter visitors. Both people with tricked-out RVs take a designated space in one of the town’s many proper RV parks. As well as people who find space out in the surrounding desert.
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