HAYDEN, Ariz. — The times never seem to change in the desert towns off Arizona State Route 177. Signs of old are everywhere and traces of new are tough to track down.

"You can't go and jump in a car and drive five minutes down the street to go to the movies or anything like that," said Jeronimo Lorona, an assistant coach for a small town high school's football team.

Hayden, Arizona , and the neighboring Winkelman have a combined population of 800 people.

"Mother, father, aunt, uncle, nana, tata, everybody along the family tree, we know everybody," basketball coach Sam Gonzalez said.

The two towns were built on the copper industry and the Hayden Smelter is their version of a skyscraper.

The concrete structure stands tall, but not as tall as the big man on the Hayden High School cam

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