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Timpie: Abandoned Truck Stop

At I-80 Exit 77 (Timpie, Utah), sits an abandoned truck stop. I wandered through it imagining I
could see semi-trailers pulling in and getting gassed up. I heard diesel engines roaring, doors
slamming, gas pumps whirring, and people speaking. But only for a moment---then it was silent.
According to a state policeman I talked to, the place had closed down about fifteen years earlier.
When I took these pictures in 2004, the place was used as a paint ball arena. In 2007 everything was gone.

This was a stop in my road trip of 2004.
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Where are the semi-trailers?
Where are the semi-trailers?		 Paint ball arena
Paint ball arena		 Wide open, but not for business
Wide open, but not for business		 Posts
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Vegetation
Vegetation		 Emptiness
Emptiness		 Mountain backdrop
Mountain backdrop

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Guest 10-Jun-2024 20:59
We used to stop here for snacks on the way to skull valley for scout camps in the early '80's. Wish it was still a thriving enterprise as I have worked in Dugway and Rowley and would have enjoyed stopping there and taking my now grown kids there.


Guest 29-May-2024 06:32
Exit 77. Interesting.
Robert Walk 07-May-2024 20:04
My Mother and Dad run this cafe in 1957, Evern and Clara Walk, it was called Timpie Cafe. I'm trying to find pictures around that time, there was a two car garage on the west side.



Guest 12-Sep-2023 23:20
I have been looking for images of this truck stop while it was in operation and have found only a few unclear aerial photos from 1978 thru the mid 80's. Would like more history on it. The finals scenes of the 1993 movie Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde were shot here in 1992 from what I can tell.
Dave Beedon11-Jun-2015 06:09
Gentlemen, thank you for your comments!
John Robinson 09-Jun-2015 21:13
The Teddy Bear's truck stop was open while I lived in Grantsville. I worked there during the summers while I was in college from 1984 - 1986. It was run and operated by the Baird family.
Bruce Conklin 27-Apr-2007 01:29
The abandoned truck stop used to be called Teddy Bears Truck Stop. The skeleton of a building next to the gas station was the small restaurant that formed the nucleus of the operation. It did a good business when Dugway Proving Grounds was doing more weapons testing back in the 1950s and 1960s. It was still open in 1973 when I moved to Utah but closed in about 1975, about the time the work at the Proving Grounds was slowing down.
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