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The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest.
During the 1950s, Bombay Beach was a popular beach-going destination. Celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, and Bing Crosby [7] frequented the luxury resorts along the Salton Sea, which was known for its fishing, boating and water skiing.
It was an auxiliary field to Naval Air Station San Diego commissioned in 1942, and had a barracks for over 600 men constructed there. It was disestablished in 1946. Naval Air Facility El Centro then took over the facility using it for parachute tests of the crewed space program and other military systems until 1979.
Salton Sea, California: After In the end, the saline body of water became an ecological disaster. A rising sea level (and extremely salty and polluted water) led to the area's abandonment by 1980.
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On May 1, 2010, the restored yacht club was reopened to the public as the Salton Sea History Museum, serving as a community center as well as a museum. [4] The property that was the North Shore Beach and Yacht Club is owned by Riverside County , which made the decision to relocate the museum to Mecca, California and the property is now reserved ...
An air of decline and strange beauty permeates the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California that is on the verge of drying up as it competes against coastal cities for dwindling water resources ...
The Monster That Challenged the World is a 1957 black-and-white science-fiction monster film from Gramercy Pictures, [a] produced by Arthur Gardner, Jules V. Levy, and Arnold Laven (who also directed), and starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton. [1] The film was distributed by United Artists as the top half of a double feature with The Vampire.