slgwv's photos with the keyword: divorce

"Peacock posing on a picnic table" (it mostly alliterates!). Tule Springs (now Floyd Lamb) County Park, at the northwest edge of Las Vegas, Nevada. Tule Springs, named (yes) for a local spring--of disproportionate importance in this area!--started as a working ranch, then morphed into a "wannabe divorcee dude ranch," which it remained until (IIRC) the early 60s or so. In the early-mid 20th century, Nevada's lenient (by the standards of the time) divorce laws led to a whole cottage industry of dude ranches targeted at people who needed to establish Nevada residency to get their divorce. These places went away as other states liberalized their divorce laws.

Looking upstream to the Center Street Bridge in downtown Reno, Nevada, USA. The next bridge upstream is Virginia Street. Virginia St. is the main north-south thoroughfare in Reno, and is now the US 395 business route. Legend has it that back in the 1920s, when Reno (and Nevada) became notorious for quickie divorce laws (quickie by the standards of the time, anyway), the newly "freed" would toss their wedding rings into the river off the Virginia Street bridge!