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The Dinky Diner

by jlcollinsnh 31 Comments - Updated: April 13, 2022

It is 2008.

Imagine you are a woman alone on a road trip. Passing through the center of Nevada, a fairly desolate place,  your car breaks down just outside of this town…

You have no way of knowing it just yet, but this was once the largest city in Nevada. That was back over 100 years ago. Now, it is more like a living ghost town.

It has been a tough road getting here.

Not everyone survives the trip.

There is no auto repair shop in town, so finding someone to fix your broken vehicle is no small feat. Once you do, it is only to learn getting the needed part will take three weeks.

Stranded, there is nothing left to do but settle in for a spell.

As you wander about, you become enchanted with the ramshackle houses… 

…dusty streets

…and random shop porches.

This is a place with few rules, and certainly no zoning laws. It is a place filled with the sort of offbeat characters such a remote outpost is destined to attract. Characters like yourself.

At some point you notice this place doesn’t have a diner, and, you think, it needs one.

Then you notice the abandoned filling station right after (or before depending on which direction you are traveling) the 90 degree bend in the main highway through town, forcing everyone to slow down as they pass it.

This, you might think, would be an ideal place for such a diner. Hungry travelers would have time to notice it, and their hunger, and pull in.

Someone, you might think, should do this.

As the weeks wear on waiting for that part, at some point you might think, that some one should be me.

Next thing you know, you strike a deal on the place, put in a kitchen and some tables and chairs, and hang an “Open” sign on the door.

Then you start luring family members from all around the country to move to this semi-Ghost town to help run the joint.

You wouldn’t be the first to wander in and stay. Virgil Earp, Wyatt’s brother, and his wife Allie showed up in 1904. He was promptly sworn in as sheriff. He died a year later. Pneumonia. He was 62.

Now it is the Spring of 2022. You passed away some three years ago and are one of the ghosts of this place. But your family carries on.

One incredibly windy day, an old FI blogger and his wife push through the door seeking refuge from the dust, something cool to drink, and food. They had been sent to the town and your diner by Ruth, the woman who runs the cafe in the Belvada Hotel in Tonopah about 26 miles north.

Your niece, their waitress, gets to chatting with them and she shares your story. Which, of course, has now become her story and that of your other family members working there.

Everything in this post is totally true…

….except the parts I totally made up to fill in the gaps.

Names were not used to protect the privacy of those involved…

…and because I forgot to ask for them.

So, there you go.

It is still a great story, even if I haven’t gotten it quite right.

All the more reason for you to go, hear it first hand for yourself, and hope your car breaks down and you get to stay.

Should you make the trip, we highly recommend staying at the Belvada in Tonopah, as long as you don’t mind ghosts. Ask for room 46. Give our best to Ruth in the cafe and Edward at the front desk.

Of course, make your way to The Dinky Diner down the road in Goldfield. The burgers are awesome, the service friendly and the atmosphere fitting. You’ll understand that last when you get there.

Spend some time wandering the town.

Tell ‘em I sent you. It won’t mean anything to anyone, but it might get a very interesting conversation started.

Goldfield, NV back in the day

Goldfield got its start in 1903 when a group of 36 prospectors and investors established the town site. As the name suggests, it was a mining town focused mostly on gold with some silver thrown in: a 3 to 1 ratio.

By 1905, there were 10,000 people. Two years later, in 1907, there were over 20,000 and it had become the largest city in Nevada and the state’s center of economic and political power.

There were…

  • 49 saloons
  • 27 restaurants 
  • 15 barber shops
  • 6 bakeries
  • 54 assayers
  • 84 attorneys
  • 162 brokers
  • 14 cigar stores
  • 21 grocers
  • 22 hotels
  • 17 laundries 
  • 40 doctors
  • 10 undertakers

Six years later it was mostly over.

The grand stone buildings that sprang up still line the streets today, the empty shells and ghosts waiting for rebirth. The Goldfield Hotel, the most prominent building of them all, would make for something great I lack the imagination to envision. I’m sure the ghosts wouldn’t mind.

In 1913 Goldfield was hit with a massive flood. It wiped out many of the homes and businesses and damaged the railroad lines.

Ten years later, in 1923, a fire destroyed 25 blocks of the central area. The very next year, another devastating fire swept through.

Goldfield was done. It became a specter of what had come before and home to a few individualists, a great cafe and, of course, its ghosts.

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Comments

  1. Howard says

    April 13, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    Is that diner built in an old shipping container??

    Reply
  2. David says

    April 14, 2022 at 1:09 am

    Does this post have a financial lesson?

    Reply
    • Howard says

      April 14, 2022 at 1:32 am

      Maybe, “past performance does not guarantee future results”?

      Reply
      • Vorlic says

        April 14, 2022 at 4:28 am

        Hurrah for the individualists!

        Nice tale.

        Be yourself.

        “The aim of life is not to be on the side of the majority, rather to avoid finding oneself within the ranks of the insane.”
        — Marcus Aurelius

        Reply
    • Mark says

      April 14, 2022 at 6:04 am

      Economies built on extractive industries producing a product of questionable intrinsic value are prone to boom and then bust. This may or may not be applicable to crypto. But hey, get insane with the blockchain if you want.

      Reply
    • Mike says

      April 21, 2022 at 3:54 pm

      Buy the country, not the city

      Reply
      • Johnny says

        April 22, 2022 at 8:24 am

        Even better – buy the whole world.

        Reply
  3. B says

    April 14, 2022 at 10:39 am

    Interesting- I didn’t know Goldfield was once the largest town in Nevada! I am glad you saw it for more than we did when we blew through on the way to Sin City. Thanks for the history lesson.

    Reply
  4. JP says

    April 14, 2022 at 11:43 am

    If in goldfield, I HIGHLY recommend going into their Recorder’s office. Go right at opening or after lunch so you can watch the recorder/clerk open the door….it’s an old, old bank vault door – straight out of the western movies. It’s awesome!

    Reply
  5. Lynne says

    April 14, 2022 at 12:51 pm

    Hey, if our road trips happen to cross paths, I’d love to buy you a drink!
    We just came through Death Valley and the Alabama Hills and are presently in the Kernville/Lake Isabella area.
    😀

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      April 14, 2022 at 4:02 pm

      That would have been fun, but we’ve headed back east and are now in Mesquite.

      Another time!

      Reply
  6. Tio Bilio says

    April 14, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    Nice story

    Reply
  7. Darrow Kirkpatrick says

    April 15, 2022 at 2:05 pm

    Wonderful story, thanks for writing it up Jim! I love that part of Nevada.

    Reply
  8. Charlotte says

    April 29, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    We stayed in Tonopah as well and drove through Goldfield. It was fascinating! Lots of ghost towns in Nevada.

    Reply
  9. Ryan says

    April 29, 2022 at 5:13 pm

    oh my gosh the market today….sold all my VTI I was holding for 15 yrs. Couldn’t stomach it

    Reply
    • John says

      May 2, 2022 at 11:34 am

      Great! Let us all know when is the best time to get back in! Easy peasy!

      Reply
    • Tony W says

      May 2, 2022 at 8:08 pm

      Wait you actually watch the market?!
      Meh, didn’t even know the market was down lol. I’ll look in 15yrs when it’s time to start moving to bonds.

      Reply
      • Ryan says

        May 3, 2022 at 7:55 am

        It seems like I only speak to rich people here. I do value my money above everything. I work in a terrible job, no 401k, and I measure my money in years of my live gone to it.
        That’s maybe why I place so much value in it and when I see a year’s worth of work just vanish to Mr. Market I can’t stop to think I wasn’t cut for this. For most of you money should come way easier, especially if you have a 401k and degree in something, which is not my case, so it must be easier to stomach indeed and be so comfortable to not even open your account everyday.

        Reply
        • jlcollinsnh says

          May 3, 2022 at 11:32 am

          Hi Ryan…

          The people here at at all different stages of their financial journey.

          The difference is mindset, not that money somehow has come more easily to others or that they have degrees. Plenty of people with degrees are dead broke and/or in debt.

          The mindset is that they understand what I have written many times here and in my book: Market declines are to be expected and are a perfectly natural part of the process. When they run their course, the market continues to go up. You can’t predict them, you just have to accept them and ride it out.

          But that is not easy and it is not for everyone. If this recent downturn has you losing sleep, then investing in the market is not for you. Nothing wrong with that. You have learned a valuable lesson.

          But be sure that is the lesson you have learned. When the market turns back up, if you buy back in you will be locking yourself into a no win strategy of panic selling and greedy buying.

          Reply
        • Lynne says

          May 3, 2022 at 10:09 pm

          Oh Ryan, sorry that you didn’t check in here or on the MMM forum BEFORE you sold. “Buy low and sell high” is MUCH easier said than done and counterintuitive but it’s the way to get rich. My parents at the beginning of their marriage 60 years ago got burned in the market and from then on kept their money in a savings account. They would be gazillionnaires by now (in their 80s) and they would have taught me how to invest instead of me finally learning about it myself in my late 40s (with the help of JL and others).
          Read “The Simple Path to Wealth” and educate yourself until you understand how the markets work and are comfortable with jumping back in. Good luck to you. I’m sorry you had to learn the expensive/hard way.

          Reply
          • Ryan says

            May 4, 2022 at 9:01 am

            I hope you’re right but one day Mr Market won’t get back up and will stay down for generations. I definitely won’t get back in the market once it turns around because I know how painful it is to lose money. Way more than pleasure of gaining.
            I’ll just save enough to just spend some and get by until I die. I just bought a 3.5% yielding CD good for 10 yrs now. It’s not the promissed of 10% of stocks but it’s not zero of savings accts and it’s Safe (inflation aside which I’m well aware someone out there was going to reply about).

  10. Robert Reisner says

    May 2, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    In difficult times, unexpected opportunities might arise. US Treasury iBonds are now paying 9.62%. They only allow $15,000/yr per person to be invested but it does add up over time. A great option for the long term bond component of a retirement plan. 9.62% and fully guaranteed by the US government!

    Reply
  11. Jon Luskin says

    May 2, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    Hello JL,

    I’m looking forward to having you join us on Bogleheads® Live.

    Sincerely,
    Jon Luskin

    Reply
  12. Chenda says

    May 5, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    Hi JL

    OT question but do you know what happened to Mike over at lacking ambition? He was very influential on my younger self but he seemed to suddenly disappear from the fire community?

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      May 5, 2022 at 6:26 pm

      Hi Chenda…

      I’d be curious to know myself. He was a good guy and I always enjoyed Lacking Ambition.

      The last time I saw him was around 2012 before I moved from the area. He was buying and fixing up some rental houses.

      His last post was May 8, 2014 but the blog is still up. My guess is he just lacks the ambition to write on it anymore. 😉

      Reply
      • Chenda says

        May 5, 2022 at 6:45 pm

        Thanks JL, yes he seemed like a great guy I hope he’s doing well 🙂

        Reply
    • Mark says

      May 14, 2022 at 10:41 am

      I’m always checking his site just in case he has started posting again.

      He had a huge impact on my journey to FI.

      I miss him!

      Reply
  13. Princess Di says

    May 5, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    I wish these articles had dates. Lol.
    Are you willing to comment on bonds and stocks going down in tandem? Would love to know insights.

    Reply
    • Donald says

      May 7, 2022 at 8:52 am

      Same question here. Bonds are losing more than stocks lately and this is not normal. Bonds have only one job that is to estabilize a portfolio, now it’s not doing that. The simple path to wealth doesn’t say anything like that. I wonder if JL’s book is not prepared for the golden age of investing where things don’t behave any more as they always did.

      Reply
    • Antony says

      May 22, 2022 at 4:35 pm

      I was wondering that too. I just finished reading the Simple Path to Wealth for a second time and that’s something not mentioned. Maybe times changed and this book is not up to date anymore. Hope this new book he announced will cover this huge gap

      Reply
  14. Allen says

    May 12, 2022 at 1:48 am

    Dear Mr. Collins,

    Loved your book the Simple Path to Wealth and have recommended it to many of my friends.
    I was again recommending the book to another friend today and saw that there seems to be a newly launched copycat book with similar title and front cover.
    I thought you should know. I almost thought it’s your sequel.

    Thanks in advance,

    Reply

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      • Chautauqua 2014: Lightning strikes again!
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      • Stocks -- Part XXVI: Pulling the 4%
      • Stocks -- Part XXV: HSAs, more than just a way to pay your medical bills.
    • ► July (3)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIV: RMDs, the ugly surprise at the end of the tax-deferred rainbow
      • Summer travels, writing, reading and other amusements
      • Moto X, my new Republic Wireless Phone
    • ► June (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIII: Selecting your asset allocation
    • ► May (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXII: Stepping away from REITs
    • ► April (3)
      • Q&A III: Vamos
      • Q&A II: Salamat
      • Q&A I: Gaijin Shogun
    • ► March (2)
      • Top 10 posts
      • Cafe No Se
    • ► February (4)
      • Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late.
      • Case Study #10: Should Josiah buy his parents a house?
      • Case Study #9: Lars -- maximizing some good fortune and considering "dollar cost averaging"
      • Case Study #8: Ron's mother - she's doin' all right!
    • ► January (4)
      • roundup: Some random cool things
      • Stocks — Part XXI: Investing with Vanguard for Europeans
      • Case Study #7: What it looks like when everything financial goes wrong
      • 1st Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest 2013 results, and my forecast for 2014
  • ► 2013 (40)
    • ► December (4)
      • Closing up for the Holidays, see you in 2014
      • Betterment: a simpler path to wealth
      • Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent
      • Stocks -- Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist
    • ► November (3)
      • Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8
      • Case Study #5: Zero to 2.6 million in 25 years
      • Case Study #4: Using the 4% rule and asset allocations.
    • ► October (3)
      • Republic Wireless and my $19 per month phone plan
      • Case Study #3: Let's get Tom to Latin America!
      • The Stock Series gets its own page
    • ► September (2)
      • Case Study #2: Joe -- off to a fast start!
      • Chautauqua 2013: A Week of Dreams
    • ► August (1)
      • Closing up shop plus an opening at Chautauqua, my new podcast, phone, book and other random cool stuff
    • ► July (1)
      • They Will Kill You For Your Shoes!
    • ► June (4)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII-b: Should you avoid your company's 401k?
      • Shilpan's Seven Habits to Live More with Less
      • Stocks -- Part XIX: How to think about money
      • My path for my kid -- the first 10 years
    • ► May (4)
      • Stocks — Part XVIII: Investing in a raging bull
      • Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha
      • How we finally got the house sold
      • Stocks — Part XVII: What if you can't buy VTSAX? Or even Vanguard?
    • ► April (4)
      • Greetings from Prague & a computer question
      • Swimming with Tigers, a 2nd chance on the Chautauqua, a financial article gets it wrong and I'm off to Prague
      • Storage, Moving and Movers
      • Homeless, and a bit on the strategy of dollar cost averaging
    • ► March (4)
      • Wild Turkeys, Motorcycles, Dining Room Sets & Greed
      • Roots v. Wings: considering home ownership
      • How about that stock market?!
      • The Blog has New Clothes
    • ► February (5)
      • Meet Mr. Money Mustache, JD Roth, Cheryl Reed & me for a Chautauqua in Ecuador
      • High School Poetry, Carnival, cool ads and random pictures that caught my eye
      • Consignment Shops: Best business model ever?
      • Cafes
      • Stocks -- Part XVI: Index Funds are really just for lazy people, right?
    • ► January (5)
      • Social Security: How secure and when to take it
      • Fighting giraffes, surreal landscapes, dancing with unicorns and restoring a Vanagon
      • My plan for 2013
      • VITA, income taxes and the IRS
      • How to be a stock market guru and get on MSNBC
  • ► 2012 (53)
    • ► December (6)
      • See you next year....until then: The Origin of Life, Life on Other Worlds, Mechanical Graveyards, Great Art, Alternative Lifestyles and Finding Freedom
      • Stocks -- Part XV: Target Retirement Funds, the simplest path to wealth of all
      • Stocks -- Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks -- Part XIII: The 4% rule, withdrawal rates and how much can I spend anyway?
      • How I learned to stop worrying about the Fiscal Cliff and you can too.
    • ► November (2)
      • Rent v. owning: A couple of case studies in Ecuador
      • So, what does a month in Ecuador cost anyway?
    • ► October (4)
      • See you in December....
      • Meet me in Ecuador?
      • The Podcast: You can hear me now.
      • Stocks -- Part XII: Bonds
    • ► September (6)
      • Stocks -- Part XI: International Funds
      • The Smoother Path to Wealth
      • Case Study #I: Putting the Simple Path to Wealth into Action
      • Tales of Bolivia: Calle de las Brujas
      • Stocks -- Part X: What if Vanguard gets Nuked?
      • Travels in South America: It was the best of times....
    • ► August (1)
      • Home again
    • ► June (4)
      • Yellow Fever, closing up shop for the summer and heading to Peru y Bolivia
      • I could not have said it better myself...
      • Stocks -- Part IX: Why I don't like investment advisors
      • Happy Birthday, jlcollinsnh; and thanks for the gift Mr. MM!
    • ► May (6)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII: The 401K, 403b, TSP, IRA & Roth Buckets
      • Mr. Money Mustache
      • The College Conundrum
      • Stocks -- Part VII: Can everyone really retire a millionaire?
      • Stocks -- Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth
      • Stocks -- Part V: Keeping it simple, considerations and tools
    • ► April (6)
      • Stocks -- Part IV: The Big Ugly Event, Deflation and a bit on Inflation
      • Stocks -- Part III: Most people lose money in the market.
      • Stocks -- Part II: The Market Always Goes Up
      • Stocks -- Part 1: There's a major market crash coming!!!! and Dr. Lo can't save you.
      • You can eat my Vindaloo, mega lottery, Blondie, Noa, Israel Kamakawiwo 'Ole, art, film and a ride on the Space Shuttle
      • Where in the world are you?
    • ► March (7)
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part V: Sold! and the taxman cometh.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part IV: I become a Landlord.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part III: The Battle is Joined.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part II: The Limits of the Law.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part I: Impossibly Naive.
      • You, too, can be conned
      • Armageddon and the value of practical skills
    • ► February (6)
      • Rent v. Owning Your Home, opportunity cost and running some numbers
      • The Casanova Kid, a Shit Knife, a Good Book, Having No Regrets, Dark Matter and a bit of Magic
      • What Poker, Basketball and Mike Whitaker taught me about Luck
      • How to Give like a Billionaire
      • Go ahead, make my day
      • Muk Finds Success in Tahiti
    • ► January (5)
      • Travels with "Esperando un Camino"
      • Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
      • Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
      • The bashing of Index Funds, Jack Bogle and a Jedi dog trick
      • Magic Beans
  • ► 2011 (22)
    • ► December (1)
      • Dividend Growth Investing
    • ► November (2)
      • The Mummy's head, Particle Physics and "Knocking on Heaven's Door"
      • "It's Better in the Wind" or why I ride a motorcycle
    • ► October (1)
      • Lazy Days and School Days
    • ► July (2)
      • The road to Zanzibar sometimes goes thru Ecuador...
      • Johnny wins the lotto and heads to Paris
    • ► June (16)
      • Chainsaws, Elm Trees and paying for College
      • Stuff I’ve failed at: the early years
      • Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
      • The. Worst. Used. Car. Ever.
      • Top Ten reasons your future is so bright it hurts my eyes to look at it
      • The Most Dangerous Words Your Customer Can Say
      • How not to drown in The Sea of Assholes
      • What we own and why we own it
      • The Ten Sales Commandments
      • My ever so formal and oh so dry CV
      • How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
      • The Myth of Motivation
      • Why you need F-you money
      • My short attention span
      • Why I can’t pick winning stocks, and you can’t either
      • The Monk and the Minister

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