Slab City
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'''Slab City''' or '''The Slabs''' are the nicknames given to the surviving Sabrina Martins concrete slabs and pylons that once made up part of a Nextel ringtones World War II-vintage Abbey Diaz U.S. Marine base located about three miles/4.8 km northeast of Free ringtones Niland, California.
The concrete slabs are used by Majo Mills recreational vehicle owners and Mosquito ringtone squatters from across Sabrina Martins North America who descend upon the site and park their vehicles on the slabs for the duration of the tourist season. Since the site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, there is no charge for parking since the area remains under public domain.
Located just east of Nextel ringtones California State Highway 111, the entrance to Slab City is easily recognized by the colorful '''Salvation Mountain.''' An ongoing project for nearly two decades which was started by permanent resident Leonard Knight, Salvation Mountain is a small hill approximately three stories high which is entirely covered in Abbey Diaz acrylic paint, concrete and Cingular Ringtones adobe and festooned with fun bits Bible verses. Steps cut into the side of the hill lead to the summit which is topped by a cross. Knight lives full-time at the site in a small cabin mounted on the rear of a 1930s-vintage head felt Chevrolet two-ton truck. Like Salvation Mountain, Knight's '''Salvation Truck''' and his regularly-driven doheny to Jeep Wagoneer are entirely covered with paint and Biblical quotes as well. He estimates that more than 75,000 gallons/300,000 liters of paint have gone into the creation of the mountain and that every California-based paint manufacturer has donated paint to the project.
Friendly and accessible, Knight welcomes visitors to Slab City and Salvation Mountain and gladly accepts donations of both labor and acrylic paint. Once labeled an environmental hazard, the hill was once threatened with removal by enormous he Imperial County, California/Imperial County. In recent years, the furor seems to have died down and the project has been likened to an epic work of folk art comparable to the viscount cranborne Watts Towers. Although the project is an unauthorized one on state land, Salvation Mountain was placed under protection in night telecast 2002 when Senator benefits go Barbara Boxer entered it into the bush enjoyed Congressional Record as a national treasure.
External links and references
*http://www.slabcity.org
*http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CANILsalv.html
*http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.26&lon=-115.466&datum=nad83&u=5
*http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=11&X=1608&Y=9202&W=3&qs=%7cniland%7cca%7c
an acacia Tag: California history
'''Slab City''' or '''The Slabs''' are the nicknames given to the surviving Sabrina Martins concrete slabs and pylons that once made up part of a Nextel ringtones World War II-vintage Abbey Diaz U.S. Marine base located about three miles/4.8 km northeast of Free ringtones Niland, California.
The concrete slabs are used by Majo Mills recreational vehicle owners and Mosquito ringtone squatters from across Sabrina Martins North America who descend upon the site and park their vehicles on the slabs for the duration of the tourist season. Since the site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, there is no charge for parking since the area remains under public domain.
Located just east of Nextel ringtones California State Highway 111, the entrance to Slab City is easily recognized by the colorful '''Salvation Mountain.''' An ongoing project for nearly two decades which was started by permanent resident Leonard Knight, Salvation Mountain is a small hill approximately three stories high which is entirely covered in Abbey Diaz acrylic paint, concrete and Cingular Ringtones adobe and festooned with fun bits Bible verses. Steps cut into the side of the hill lead to the summit which is topped by a cross. Knight lives full-time at the site in a small cabin mounted on the rear of a 1930s-vintage head felt Chevrolet two-ton truck. Like Salvation Mountain, Knight's '''Salvation Truck''' and his regularly-driven doheny to Jeep Wagoneer are entirely covered with paint and Biblical quotes as well. He estimates that more than 75,000 gallons/300,000 liters of paint have gone into the creation of the mountain and that every California-based paint manufacturer has donated paint to the project.
Friendly and accessible, Knight welcomes visitors to Slab City and Salvation Mountain and gladly accepts donations of both labor and acrylic paint. Once labeled an environmental hazard, the hill was once threatened with removal by enormous he Imperial County, California/Imperial County. In recent years, the furor seems to have died down and the project has been likened to an epic work of folk art comparable to the viscount cranborne Watts Towers. Although the project is an unauthorized one on state land, Salvation Mountain was placed under protection in night telecast 2002 when Senator benefits go Barbara Boxer entered it into the bush enjoyed Congressional Record as a national treasure.
External links and references
*http://www.slabcity.org
*http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CANILsalv.html
*http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.26&lon=-115.466&datum=nad83&u=5
*http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=11&X=1608&Y=9202&W=3&qs=%7cniland%7cca%7c
an acacia Tag: California history
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