Bisbee is an isolated border town, only ten miles from Mexico. Over the last hundred years it has seen boom and bust. In 1900, it had 20,000 inhabitants. Today it has 5,000. It is a old copper mining town, stacked vertically upon the side of a canyon, frozen in time. At its heart was a street known as Brewery Gulch. Once jammed with saloons, brothels, and gambling dens, Brewery Gulch existed to take money out of miners pockets around the clock. The street is still there, now filled with shops, inns, galleries, and restaurants. The Brewery, which once gave the street its name, is gone, even though its name can still be seen etched in copper within this cornice over the door. We see only a small piece of old Bisbee in this image, but what a characteristic image it is. One word, carved in the very color of the mineral that gave once this town its identity.