Finally found more photos

I finally located some more photos from the time period. As I didn't have a digital camera yet and had used Stacy's or she'd taken the photos, I had to search through the thousands of pictures on a back up hard drive to find more from the era. So these are the next few posts I'll be doing.

These photos actually go with the last post about rooster fighting. They were taken at the Cock Fight I had described I had responded to in the unincorporated Adelanto area of San Bernardino county.
There had been fighting going on earlier in the day and the preparations had been on for an evening competition, before I arrived with the Sheriff's that is!
As I'd said, this set up was the most sophisticated I'd ever been to. It was obvious that it had been operational for a long period of time with all the permanent structures to accommodate the fights. Top photo of the 'ring'. It was quite large and had the bench on the side.

The second photo was where the roosters were kept before their fight. Also much better than many areas I'd seen for the "competitors" to wait.

The property was like so many out in the open desert, it looked just like any other double wide mobile home with a garage and some out buildings all over the area, including our own property!
Unless there was an 'event' going on with all the cars around for it, you would never be able to tell that there was an illegal fighting ring in the garage complete with a snack bar!

Back when we had to pick up or 'impound' all the birds at these raids, we'd taken many really nicely made carrying cages, many were really nice wood with ornate decorations on some. We thought those must have been for the winning birds, but we needed them for anything we could put in them to take them to the shelter.