Mojave desert on my way to the tiny town of baker, california. Its halfway between los angeles and las vegas. Just a tiny dot on the map 800 people. It embodies the weirdness of both those cities, and its largest attraction, definitely its tallest, has become one familys rather strange inheritance. My name is larae harguess, and my father, Willis Herron, set out to build the worlds tallest thermometer. Hi. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Im larae. Nice to meet you. Its big. It is the worlds tallest thermometer. Well, if someone figured this roadside attraction would get you to stop and gawk, it sure as heck worked on me. Hi. How are you, janice . Im jamie. Hi. Nice to meet you, jamie. Today, larae and her sister, janice neisess, run a gift shop in the shadow of the tower. They sell thermometer tshirts, thermometer hot sauce, even thermometer thermometers. Yes, this really is the worlds tallest thermometer. And it would be strange enough just to inherit a 130foot thermometer in the middle of the d
Mojave desert on my way to the tiny town of baker, california. Its halfway between los angeles and las vegas. Just a tiny dot on the map 800 people. It embodies the weirdness of both those cities, and its largest attraction, definitely its tallest, has become one familys rather strange inheritance. My name is larae harguess, and my father, Willis Herron, set out to build the worlds tallest thermometer. Hi. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Im larae. Nice to meet you. Its big. It is the worlds tallest thermometer. Well, if someone figured this roadside attraction would get you to stop and gawk, it sure as heck worked on me. Hi. How are you, janice . Im jamie. Hi. Nice to meet you, jamie. Today, larae and her sister, janice neisess, run a gift shop in the shadow of the tower. They sell thermometer tshirts, thermometer hot sauce, even thermometer thermometers. Yes, this really is the worlds tallest thermometer. And it would be strange enough just to inherit a 130foot thermometer in the middle of the d
jamie: he is looking for any unknown relatives of harold marney, his message goes unnoticed until 2013, when brian willis, posts petition to place a headstone for marney in a veteran cemetery near springfield massachusets. i could not find him anywhere. honored, not even in springfield, and he was from east spring field. jamie: brian comes across frances post from way back in 2001. i got a phone, and left a strange message. are you the nephew of pt109 crew member marney. it was stronging to get a call off the blue. jamie: in august 2013 that grave stone is placed at veteran s cemetery. idennis is thinking about those letters written to his grandmother that he has been holding on to for 25 years. isn t it time he did something
marney, his message goes unnoticed until 2013, when brian willis, posts petition to place a headstone for marney in a veteran cemetery near springfield massachusets. i could not find him anywhere. honored, not even in springfield, and he was from east spring field. jamie: brian comes across frances post from way back in 2001. i got a phone, and left a strange message. are you the nephew of pt109 crew member marney. it was stronging to get a call off the blue. jamie: in august 2013 that grave stone is placed at veteran s cemetery. idennis is thinking about those letters written to his grandmother that he has been holding on to for 25 years. isn t it time he did something with them. but then a reckoning for dennis