At Tortilla Flat along the Apache Trail, Ariz. Remodeled as a movie set for The Lost Dutchman's Mine [movie actually called Lust for Gold], it was and still is a popular cafe and motel with the tourist trade. [Caption given by Josef Muench.] ; Apache Trail, Arizona.

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: Josef Muench was born in Bavaria February 8, 1904. At the age of 11 he received his first camera and began a lifelong interest in capturing nature on film. He arrived in the United States with his brother in 1926 and eventually settled in Santa Barbara, California. In the 1930s, Muench began his long association with Arizona Highways Magazine. Josef Muench died in 1998.