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Amboy, California is a nearly empty ghost town in California's Mojave Desert roughly sixty miles (97 km) northeast of Twentynine Palms. It was once a major stop along famous Route 66 but has seen much lower visitation since the opening of Interstate 40 to the north in 1973. Amboy is famous as a genuine Route 66 landmark as well. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ...
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Bannack, Montana, a well preserved ghost town that is now a State Park. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ...
Twentynine Palms is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. ...
Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ...
Interstate 40 (abbreviated I-40) is a major west-east interstate highway in the United States. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Roy's Motel and Cafe was and is the only gasoline, food and lodging stop for miles around that part of the eastern Mojave and was well known for both its Googie "retro-future" architecture added to one of the original buildings and even more famous sign, a 1959 addition. Both Roy's and the surrounding town were once owned by Buster Burris, one of Route 66's most famous characters who purchased Roy's from his father-in-law Roy Crowl - the man for whom the property is named - in 1938 and ran the town until 1995. Burris was also responsible for erecting power poles between Amboy and Barstow, using a crane mounted on a 1930s-vintage Studebaker truck. The town was owned by investors Walt Wilson and Tim White starting from 2000. It got repossessed and eventually sold in 2005 to Albert Okura, owner of the Juan Pollo restaurant chain who's trying to preserve the town. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 609 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Amboy, California Roys Motel and Cafe Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital...
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The Space Needle, built for Seattles Worlds Fair, 1962 Googie, also known as populuxe, is a form of architecture, originating from southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s. ...
Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. ...
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Studebakers Lazy S logo, designed by Raymond Loewy, was used from the 1950s until 1966 The worlds largest living sign was planted at the Studebaker Proving Grounds, west of South Bend, Indiana. ...
Early history
Amboy is also one of California's oldest towns, dating from 1858 and even has an unused, unrestored one-room schoolhouse dating from the 1900s. Its growth over the years was tied to chloride works in the dry lake beds that dot the area as well as the Santa Fe Railroad over which high-speed freight trains still run between Kingman, Arizona and the BNSF Railway giant Barstow yard. The chloride works rank among the world's largest. 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The chloride ion is formed when the element chlorine picks up one electron to form an anion (negatively-charged ion) Cl−. The salts of hydrochloric acid HCl contain chloride ions and are also called chlorides. ...
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the largest railroads in the United States. ...
Kingman RR station Kingman is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. ...
The BNSF Railway (AAR reporting mark BNSF), headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of the largest railroad networks in North America (only one competitor, the Union Pacific Railroad, is comparable in size). ...
 Amboy Crater, as viewed from the east Amboy Crater, an extinct, 6,000-year-old cinder cone made largely of pahoehoe, rises to the west. The coming of Route 66 - originally named "National Trails Highway" in the 1910s and reverted to that name after the decommissioning of 66 - saw a steady growth of business, especially at Roy's. The complex was so busy during summer vacation that Burris placed classified ads in other states in an effort to bring in enough help. The coming of Interstate 40 in the early 1970s changed all that. Burris himself told an interviewer that his business dropped to zero the day the new Interstate highway opened. Download high resolution version (1165x413, 98 KB)View of Amboy Crater from the east I took this picture on December 21, 2004. ...
Download high resolution version (1165x413, 98 KB)View of Amboy Crater from the east I took this picture on December 21, 2004. ...
Amboy Crater, as viewed from the east Amboy Crater and Lava Field is an extinct North American cinder cone. ...
Cinder Cone is a cinder cone volcano in Lassen Volcanic National Park. ...
Lava is molten rock that a volcano expels during an eruption. ...
From ghost town to film location
 Abandoned gas station in Amboy Roy's was the town's only business outside of the chloride works and post office. Roy's is currently closed but the owners state they are trying to restore water and power and perhaps even sell gas. The cabins which were once rented to Route 66 travelers stand unused. Roy's used to be open for food and gasoline, but the hours of operation were erratic under the previous owners. Gasoline was also considerably more expensive than normal at roughly thirty percent above the state average. Roy's even attracted some well-known regulars. Actors Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins have autographed photos on the walls of the restaurant and visit whenever their schedules allow. Ford frequently flies in and lands his plane on a nearby landing strip, one of the first ever built in California. Despite its remote location, Amboy still beckons travelers to and from the Colorado River as well as those interested in Route 66 lore. Part of the 1986 motion picture The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer was filmed in Amboy while Roy's was the setting for a 1999 television commercial[1] for Qwest Communications. It was also used in Enrique Iglesias' music video "Hero." Owners Wilson and White maintain Amboy in weathered, unrestored condition for use as a motion picture film site. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 600 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Amboy, California Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to...
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Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Welsh-born film, stage and television actor. ...
The Colorado River from the bottom of Marble Canyon, in the Upper Grand Canyon Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River from Laughlin The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Hitcher is a 1986 Hollywood horror/thriller film, directed by Robert Harmon, and written by Eric Red. ...
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (IPA: [rÊtxÉ›r ulsÉ›n hÊŒuÉ›r]) (born in Breukelen, January 23, 1944) is a Dutch film actor. ...
Qwest Communications International Inc. ...
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and multi-million-album seller. ...
The 2006 Pixar film Cars takes place mostly in an abandoned, former Route 66 boomtown called "Radiator Springs" that was partially based on Amboy. The film states that the town was robbed of all traffic when Interstate 40 opened. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). ...
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Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ...
Radiator Springs is the name of a fictional town in the animated Disney/Pixar film Cars. ...
Interstate 40 (abbreviated I-40) is a major west-east interstate highway in the United States. ...
The town has a total of 10 surviving buildings and a population of far fewer than the advertised 20.
Preservation and restoration Currently the water and electricity need to be restored before preservation can begin. There has been some vandalism at Amboy recently, thwarting much of the effort of preserving the town. To prevent further vandalism, a caretaker is now living on site. Plans to sell gas again are still on.
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