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Bombay Beach is located in Southern California's Sonoran Desert. [19] Bombay Beach is located on the east shore of the Salton Sea and, like many communities along its shores, has had to contend with fluctuating water levels, reducing size of the lake and increasing salinity. A berm was built in the 1970s to protect the west end of the town, but ...
After Dark, My Sweet – 1990 film (Mecca, California) [70] America's Tribute to Bob Hope – 1988 documentary (Palm Desert) [71] Beverly Hills, 90210 – 1990s TV series (1995 episodes in Rancho Mirage) [72] Bombay Beach – 2010 documentary (Bombay Beach, California) [73]
The Salton Sea had some success as a resort area, with Salton City, Salton Sea Beach, and Desert Shores, on the western shore and Desert Beach, North Shore, and Bombay Beach, built on the eastern shore in the 1950s. Due to the increasing salinity and pollution of the lake over the years from agricultural runoff and other sources, the ...
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Bombay Beach is a 2011 documentary film directed and produced by Israeli filmmaker Alma Har'el. [1] [2] The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, won "Best Feature Documentary" at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and has been taught in several universities including Duke University and Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Center as a genre redefining work.
Licorice Pizza – Southern California chain that was started in Long Beach by James Greenwood in 1969, [135] acquired by Record Bar in 1985, acquired by Musicland in 1986, [136] and rebranded Sam Goody. [137] In November 2021, director Paul Thomas Anderson released a movie with the same name loosely based on this chain.
Common destinations in the east included Delhi, Varanasi (then known as Benares), Goa, Bombay, Madras, Kathmandu and Bangkok. Kathmandu still has a road, Jhochhen Tole , nicknamed Freak Street in commemoration of the many thousands of hippies who passed through. [ 9 ]
The San Andreas Fault begins at Bombay Beach where the southern terminus of the San Andreas transitions into the Brawley Seismic Zone, about ten miles across the Salton Sea from Salton City. Most residents are fully accustomed to minor and moderate earthquakes, but are prepared for a large one. [citation needed]