La Bonita Supermarket Reopens This Week After 3 Year Hiatus
In a world that so often feels like it’s filled with bad news, stories like this make me happy to share with y’all. The popular supermarket, La Bonita no. 4, on the intersection on Eastern Ave and Desert Inn Road, is making its epic comeback this week!
La Bonita No. 4 Was Devastated By The Windstorms In 2021
If you live on that side of town, you probably remember that the store had to close its doors because of some pretty significant damage it took from the windstorms nearly 3 years ago. According to reporting by the Las Vegas Review Journal, the storm in August of 2021 led to the collapse of part of the building’s front canopy. Four individuals experienced minor injuries and a massive pile of debris was left behind in the building’s parking lot. However, the Las Vegas Review Journal is also reporting that the supermarket’s general manager, Armando Martinez, confirmed that the store will be reopening this Wednesday, June 12th.
Besides having to work with the insurance companies to get things fixed, some other things happened that made reopening later than Martinez wanted. According to Martinez, when construction was progressing towards their original reopening date in 2023, they discovered more problems with the roof and were victims of stolen air conditioners and vandalism. All of this pushed back the construction schedule.
La Bonita Coming Back Means Jobs Are Also Coming Back
According to the LVRJ, Martinez is bringing back 50 former employees and he has successfully hired 150 people at a recent job fair. The 50 former employees were transferred to different locations following La Bonita no. 4’s closure.
And while they’re no longer currently hiring at this location, the next La Bonita expansion is in the works. La Bonita number 8 is set to begin its construction this year, near East Bonanza Rd and North Nellis Boulevard.
The Poop Museum And 6 Weird Nevada Attractions You Must Visit
1. The Clown Motel: Tonopah, Nevada
The Clown Motel is just plain weird. And it is said to be haunted – which is not hard to believe. I have been to it, but refuse to stay, because it is like something out of the X-Files the Scully and Mulder would have even avoided, But it is quite the tourist attraction. At least check out the weird gift shop.
2. The Middlegate Shoe Tree: Dayton, Nevada
It’s a tree with a bunch of shoes hanging over branches. The story is that a couple got in their first fight as newlyweds, they had an argument right near the tree, and one left the other walking home, without shoes. They patched things up, but made an anniversary tradition out of going back each year to throw a shoe on the tree. It’s interesting. In Dayton, Nevada, about 50 miles from Fallon Nevada, on The Loneliest Road In America.
3. The Car Forest: Goldfield, Nevada
The call it the Free Range Art Gallery. There are dozens of cars, vans, and trucks half-buried, or sticking straight up out of the ground, and even on top of each other. These are the canvas, and they are really colorful, and festive. It’s a really cool sight to see, in the living ghost town of Goldfield.
4. Seven Magic Mountains: Las Vegas, Nevada
The Seven Magic Mountains were supposed to be a temporary exhibit, but they have been up since 2016. About 20 minutes outside of Las Vegas are seven fluorescent colored, 11 story rock towers. They have become a bit of have become something of a cult classic, and they are a GREAT photo op. A really cool sight to see!
5. The National Atomic Testing Museum: Las Vegas, Nevada
There were over 900 atomic tests in Nevada. And people would take buses to see the testing. It was a huge draw for Las Vegas, and people came in from everywhere. People would bus out to the test site, put their goggles on, have a cocktail, and enjoy watching the mushroom clouds in the sky. It was quite the attraction on Las Vegas in the 50’s. The Atomic Testing Museum, though, is quite amazing, and full of history. A huge, actual, nuclear reactor, a backpack nuke, and personal atomic weapons. Yikes! But the Oppenheimer era was fierce in Las Vegas.
6. Little A’Le’Inn: Rachel, Nevada
The Little A’Le’Inn is just as kitschy as you would imagine! You can stay there, eat there, and shop. All a play on the Area 51 test site, that is not too far down the road. And all part of the heyday of the Las Vegas atomice times. Do NOT try to trek on over to Area 51, and think you’ll get past anything. Lights go on, and guards swarm in from nowhere! Just keep close to the Inn.
