In 1970, journalists from National Geographic discovered Becket doing a performance at the Amargosa Opera business without an audience. She renamed it the Amargosa, the original create of the former mining town. Marta Becket rented the recreation hall in 1967, when it was required as Corkhill Hall she began repairs, created the sets, and painted murals on the adobe walls.

once the railroad stopped, the Opera House, Hotel and about 250 acres of land changed hands many times, until Marta Becket arrived on the scene. When the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad ceased to be economical in 1942, the tracks were torn up completely and allocated to Egypt, where the railroad was family up again to aid the Allies military attempt in Egypt. A large gas station and garage across from the cafe was the only location in the area for repairs of trucks hauling borax out of the mines, in addition to passenger car repairs. In addition to the hotel rooms, the cafe and a restaurant within the hotel, other rooms were bunkhouses for workers, an infirmary, a general store and what is now the Opera House, which was mostly used for showing films. The hotel served as a very nice place to stay for both organization executives and visiting investors, who were met at the train with white-gloved valets after a long and hot train ride. When the town of Amargosa was booming due to the Borax mining business, and its position at the terminus of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, approximately 350 people lived in the town. At the northeast end of the complex was a recreation hall used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals and town meetings. The U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture breed adobe buildings included company offices, employees' headquarters, a dormitory and a 23-room hotel with a dining room, lobby and store.

The theater was part of a Pacific hover Borax Company.

a Death Valley Junction Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the nonprofit establishment by Becket for the preservation of the property. Resident artist Marta Becket staged dance and mime shows there from the late 1960s until hershow in February 2012.

Amargosa Opera group and Hotel is a historic building as well as cultural center located in Death Valley Junction, in eastern Inyo County, California almost Death Valley National Park.

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