"We're Getting Out of L.A. and Going to
Joshua Tree": Why the Desert Area Is Booming
Hollywood Reporter,
by
Hadley Meares
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/21/2021 8:26:54 PM
During the golden age of Westerns, film crews would often make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to the Morongo Basin in San Bernardino County to shoot in the pristine, rugged desert. In 1946, actor Dick Curtis decided to monetize the location and banded with movie cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to create a wild West film location and settlement that they named Pioneertown. The real cowboys already living in the area (north of what is now Joshua Tree National Park) weren't too pleased. "Back when Pioneertown Corporation was hauling in potential land buyers and weekend tourists from Los Angeles, they set
Out-of-control leftists still do whatever they want in California Assembly and Brylcreem is still the governor no matter where you live in the not-so-Golden State. These people are fooling themselves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/21/2021 8:49:56 PM (No. 704279)
Ha! I lived in the High Desert for a year some years ago. This article really fluffs it up. I won’t rain on anyone’s parade, but I could sum it up in just a few words: Unremitting heat in summer, extreme cold in winter, severe wind (as in blowing sand that would come in around fully closed windows and weatherstripped doors. Wind so severe that the sand it blew would strip the paint off a car. And insects that were many times the size of the same found in more normal places, if at all.
Nope.
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Vesicant 2/21/2021 8:56:18 PM (No. 704283)
Oh, just great -- libterds and millennials in the high desert; what could possibly go wrong? But who will make their soy lattes? Given that Joshua trees and desert tortoises are endangered species, maybe we can use the EPA against these useless hipster doofuses.
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chumley 2/21/2021 9:45:15 PM (No. 704317)
Those types ruin everything they get their "beautiful people" paws on. But at least this time they are ruining their own state and not someone else's. I'm sure other Kalifornians wont mind their grey pony tails, motor homes, motorcycles, convertibles, spandex bike shorts and obnoxious sunglasses like we Americans do.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/21/2021 10:34:12 PM (No. 704335)
This is considered the "low desert" as opposed to the "high desert." The low desert is that of Pioneer Town, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Cathedral City etc. The high desert is Victorville, Barstow and the August hell-on-earth, Death Valley. I once trained with the US Army in Fort Irwin near Death Valley. Cold in the winter and really hot in the summer. The low desert is much more comfortable which is why over a million people call the area home. Spring and fall, the climate is wonderful and the scenery is gorgeous. July, take the tram ride up Mt. San Jacinto, have dinner and cool off. Or, hike back down the mountain. I live in SoCal. Forget the crummy politicians and the Democrat Communist Party. This area is beautiful.
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With celebs, all you have to do is: Follow the meth
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DVC 2/22/2021 1:41:56 AM (No. 704414)
So, they'll wreck another place.
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#2 - And the silt (not dust - silt) that settles daily on every flat surface in every room. And if you have textured walls, on all the ripples from floor to ceiling. Go west on Route 66 from the Nevada line, turn left at Roy's Cafe & Motel, and head south toward Joshua Tree and Pioneertown. It's like driving across the moon. The celebs can have it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 2/22/2021 6:26:36 AM (No. 704486)
Californians broke, they bought it. They should not be able to destroy a state and then move on to another. Democrats are like locusts. They feed off the host until there is just a bony carcass left. If they come to your community, never ever vote for them for any office no matter how small. If you do, you will be voting for your own destruction.
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so, the scorpions and snakes are leaving Hollywood to be with their own kind.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
davew 2/22/2021 9:24:46 AM (No. 704618)
The high desert near Joshua Tree and Twenty Nine Palms will always be special to me because of the weeks I got to spend at the meditation retreat that was built there about ten years ago. Each session of about 60 students lasted ten days and was practiced in "noble silence" without any talking or cell phones or other outside distractions.
Its hard to describe the exquisite peacefulness and quiet that exists at 4:00 AM in the desert before the sun has even risen. You can see every star above the majestic mountains that rise to the south and east. The desert ground has a distinct smell almost like gunpowder or burnt ash. It would actually take me a few days after coming back to the city to adjust to the noise and chaos that was part of normal life. It was a delight to find a place of peace like this and it would be a shame if it was lost to future generations.
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There goes the neighborhood. Celebs flee the urban rat race for wide-open spaces and a touch of freedom.