The Ruins at Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea

January 17, 2011

The strange and mysterious big lake in the middle of the desert in California. The beachfront portion of this community has been abandoned, though people still live inland a block or two.

Check out my Salton Sea photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/sets/72157605264326878/

Grand reopening of the Salton Sea History Museum. Now located at 72-120 S. Lincoln Street (end of road across creek), Mecca, CA 92254

News video: http://www.kesq.com/video/30403959/index.html

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salton-Sea-History-Museum/125597164130869

Museum homepage: http://www.saltonseamuseum.org/

Wikipedia entry for Bombay Beach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Beach,_California

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Travel & Events

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• 20110117
• Bombay
• Beach

[kraftymomma1979]

I enjoy your videos so much. They just keep getting better and better.

[slworking2]

@kraftymomma1979 Thanks. I hope to take a trip out to the Salton Sea and shoot some more videos sometime soon.

[punks951]

im going to the salton sea next mouth for there salton sea treasure trails

[slworking2]

@punks951 Awesome. Have you visited the Sea before?

[tizvicious]

really like the videos you shoot! inspiries me to visit the salton sea again soon!thankx

[slworking2]

@tizvicious Thank you. Definitely go back soon - stuff is rapidly decaying.

[RadioReprised]

The Area you are surveying was called ''Hunky's Place'' There was a Bar that sat on the water and marina. Hunky was a Hungarian! About 100 yards west was the ''Luck 'O The Irish'' Bar, also on the beach, then the Bombay Marina. The Bringle family owned the Marina. Also there was a bar at the corner of 5th and A, The ''Tradewinds'' owned by the Hargraves, and at the other end of town the ''Corvina Marina!'' Everyone knows the 'Ski Inn'' by the Belknaps and ''Bombay Market'' by the Kinley family

[punks951]

@slworking2 yea win thay have the salton sea treasure trails

[slworking2]

@marcuelcajon Thank you. It's an awesome and surreal place.

[slworking2]

@mrsurfen Thanks.

[mrsurfen]

Amazing .... Cool place ...

[marcuelcajon]

Cool.