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Boyce Gulley’s 16-Year Junk Castle for His Daughter
In 1929, a Seattle shoe salesman named Boyce Luther Gulley got bad news: tuberculosis. Rather than risk his family’s health, he left his wife Frances and five-year-old daughter Mary Lou without a word.
He fled to Phoenix, where he lived in an old boxcar at South Mountain’s base. Yet instead of dying, Gulley thrived.
He spent the next 16 years building an 18-room castle from junk – old car parts, railroad tracks, and stones held together with goat’s milk mortar…