Windy Gulch is a Ghost Town outside of Boulder that Mork & Mindy track Billy, one of Mork's Day Care kids to, after he runs away there to emulate an outlaw hero in Gunfight at the Mork-kay Corral.
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Windy Gulch is located outside of Boulder
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Abandoned Mining Town
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According to lore Windy Gulch used to be a hang out of Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty aka William Bonney). McCarty did live in Colorado for a time with his family, before becoming infamous for his actions in the neighboring Arizona and New Mexico. After Billy, one of the kids from Mork's group, runs away to the ghost town to follow in the footsteps of his hero Billy the Kid, Mork and Mindy follow in her jeep to try and retrieve him.
Wells Fargo building
The town is typical of a old western town, made up of deserted wooden buildings (including a Wells Fargo and the Strawberry Hotel), adobe walls and dusty streets. On arrival Mindy heads to the Livery Stable, while Mork goes to the old Saloon across the street from the old General Store and Feed Merchant.
Main Street
The Saloon, according to it's still in place glass plate window, was owned by a Jack Carter. Though it's full of tumbleweed and broken pieces of wood, it still has it's swing doors, and an old Remington player piano or Pianola in one piece, along with some half wrecked paintings, green baize round poker tables and it's bar area.
Mork laid low in Carter's Saloon.
It is the showdown area for Mork and Billy, a duel of opposing philosophies, Mork's pacifist stance and Billy's Billy the Kid adulation. When Mork turns down a duel with water balloons (which ends with Mindy getting soaked) the duo come up with a different approach. Luring the hiding boy out, Mork doing his best Clint Eastwood utilizes his powers (and impression skills) to show Billy how scary violence can be. But it doesn't take until Mork deliberately takes a spill after Billy sucker punches him with another water balloon. Finding Billy standing over a prone Mork, an alarmed Mindy (not in on this part of the plan) admonishes Billy about violence not being a game, before discovering Mork is play acting after Billy runs to get a cold cloth for Mork.
When the cold cloth magically 'restores' Mork, Billy finally comes to see the value of helping people like his Dad (a doctor) over hurting them like Billy.