Shoshoni Bar

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Location: Lucky 5 Lounge, 205 E Second Street, Shoshoni, WY
GPS:   43d 14m 7s    -108d 6m 31s
Map / Satellite Image: Google Link
 

Travel Directions:
Entering Shoshoni from the west, US-26 becomes E Second Street.
The Lucky 5 Lounge is to the right at 205 E Second Street, between Wyoming and Main Streets.

Remarks:
You’ll find lots and lots of western grit here at Shoshoni’s Lucky 5 Lounge. Like most of Shoshoni, the luck seems to have blown away, but this place manages to survive.

Some believe that Ang Lee’s “Signal” was influenced by this decaying Wyoming town. If it was, the Lucky 5 Lounge was a likely model for the Signal Bar. It has been here for a long while; every surface, furnishing, fixture, appliance, utensil, washroom, container, window, door, and patron there is extremely worn.

Did Lee actually spend time in Shoshoni as he prepared to make his masterpiece? We asked the three Lucky 5 patrons who happened to be there at the time of our brief (10 a.m.) visit. None knew. In fact, we are pretty certain that none of them knew Ang Lee from Bruce Lee, or Annabel Lee, or Robert E. Lee.

See:
http://www.windrivercountry.com/other/shoshonifrontpage.html

Important:
Obtain permission before photographing bar patrons.

Quotation:
“They found a bar and drank beer through the afternoon, Jack telling Ennis about a lightning storm on the mountain ...” [1]

[1] Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Scribner) ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9416-4, page 3.

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