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In a dusty field in far west Texas sits a simple metal building surrounded by the rusting

shells of classic cars.

Oh, you're an Alpine Texas and you're at the biggest mechanic shop in the biggest town

in the biggest county in the biggest state outside of Alaska, that's where you are.

Bam, Automotive.

Sue Nia's run Bam Automotive alongside her husband Van since 2004.

Sometime before that she lived not far away in the town of Marathon, just another dot

on the map in the vastness of the big bend.

In Marathon, Sue's mother ran a little country bar called Mel's, a place for locals.

Cowboys would come in and get all drunked up and those damn cowboys would load them horses

out of them trailers and get them right into the bar.

Those silly cowboys would get there on those horses, drunked up, those horses would be sliding

on that damn concrete floor.

We'd be moving chairs and tables out of the wagon case for horses because they're on the

slick floor.

Those cowboys would be drunked up, they'd be hunkered over the horn of that satellite and their

ass was off to ride those horses around the bar.

It was Mel's bar.

Why don't they call them Mel's?

They can call them my mother's name is Mel's, and in fact, she shot herself in that bar.

Yeah, I was 13 and she carried a pistol in her money box.

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