Post #10517 by DawnTiki on Tue, Oct 8, 2002 11:10 PM

I live about 20 minutes from it, I am used to dusty roads! A few friends and I have always talked about going out to take a look, but we haven't made it there (YET). Then about 2 years ago (I think) there was a article in the local paper about some kind of Burlesque Convention they hold every June, this just stirred my interest again. Hulaville was a piece of earth that was maintained and taken care of by this OLD, OLD man named Miles Mahan http://www.roadsideamerica.com/roger/QueryTips.php3?tip.AttractionName=mahan&tip.Town=hesperia&Tip.State=CA From what I have been told by locals who knew him he was quite the character. An old Vaudeville performer that fell in love with a woman who didn't return his feelings, I think she married his vaudeville partner. Mahan came out here to Hesperia and bought a plot of land and dedicated it (Hulaville) and the rest of his life to this woman, everything he did, his art, poems were for her. He lived in a ricketty, old, beat up, weathered camper shell on the property, he was a poet, an artist and a performer. I wish I had taken some time out of my OH SO BUSY life to go shake his hand and hear his story. Thanks Vintagegirl, I had a feeling that you might have known something about Exotic World! I need to go out there for a visit before its gone too.

P.S. I don't know how much of my story about Mr. Mahan is fact or Urban Legend, I do know he was a wacky old(I think he was 96 when he died) guy who lived without ANY modern conveniences...no running water...no heat...no electricity....I was hoping that maybe in someone's journey, someone might have stopped by and chatted with him or might know something about where Hulaville's Big Hula Girl is hiding. :D

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2002-10-08 23:44 ]