Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Tombstone, Ariz., could lose its designation as a national historic landmark because townspeople have gone too Hollywood. The New York Times reports the town where Wyatt Earp had his famous shootout at the OK Corral is on the National Park Service's "threatened" list because of building alterations that have no basis in history -- things like purple and turquoise facades. Advertisement "It's becoming like a Hollywood set instead of an authentic historic Western town," Sally Alves, a bed-and-breakfast owner, told the Times. Jim Newbauer, the manager of the G.F. Spangenberg gun shop, says he never claimed his store was the same one where Earp bought his weapons in 1880 -- even though he borrowed the name. That one was across the street. But nor does Newbauer go out of his way to point that out. Tombstone, federal and state officials are planning a three-day meeting, beginning Sept. 1, to discuss preserving the town's authenticity.
