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Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community [1] consisting largely of snowbirds [2] in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained after the World War II Marine Corps Camp Dunlap training camp was torn ...
California Steel Industries is a steel processing and finishing company that operates a facility near Fontana, California. The Fontana plant was built in 1942 by Kaiser Steel , which operated it until December 1983, when it was shuttered as part of the general termination of Kaiser's steel business. [ 1 ]
Camp Dunlap was a United States Marine Corps base in Imperial County, California. [1] The camp was named for Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap. [2] The 250,000 acre camp was used to train artillery and anti-aircraft units of the Fleet Marine Force. [2] [3] The base was located at the present-day location of Slab City.
The scope of the project called for extensive concrete work that consisted of slabs in excess of 2,000,000 square feet and used more than 65,000 cubic yards of concrete to complete. In order to meet the demands of the ambitious timeline for completion of the foundation, Conco worked in four separate areas simultaneously.
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Salvation Mountain at the LOVE IS UNIVERSAL area; 2008 photo. Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [1] and several miles from the Salton Sea.
In 2008, Anaheim city planners announced an expansion of the initial Platinum Triangle proposal, doubling the amount of housing units and commercial office space from the original plans. Sixteen projects were either planned or currently under construction for a total of 18,363 homes, 5,700,000 square feet (530,000 m 2 ) of commercial space and ...
When Anaheim was a rural community surrounded by orange groves, the geographic center of town was at the intersection of Center Street and Los Angeles Street (now Center Street and Anaheim Blvd.) and the central business district was built around the center of town anchored by the likes of the SQR Department Store, Chung King Restaurant, and Pickwick Hotel.