{"id":12916,"date":"2023-10-04T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:41:42","slug":"owning-amboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/04\/owning-amboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning Amboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from SF Gate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Lovely chaos\u2019: What it\u2019s like to accidentally own a California ghost town<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ariana Bindman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The deserted town of\u00a0Amboy looks like a Harley Davidson fever dream drenched in neon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just along Route 66 in the Mojave Desert, it appears like a mirage, or a gritty 1950s Western on acid. But amid the barren nothingness, just past the mysteriously placed Buddha statue and volcanic crater, you\u2019ll also see the abandoned town\u2019s most prominent landmark glowing in the distance: Roy\u2019s Motel and Cafe, a remote gas station that has become an enduring, if surreal, symbol of Americana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it started out as a small mining camp, postcards\u00a0suggest<\/a>\u00a0that Amboy once had 13 businesses, including cafes and motor courts, as well as a church and a school that catered to the town\u2019s 200 residents. For a fleeting period after the war, business at the roadside diner boomed, bringing workers and travelers from all across the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from SF Gate \u2018Lovely chaos\u2019: What it\u2019s like to accidentally own a California ghost town By\u00a0Ariana Bindman The deserted town of\u00a0Amboy looks like a Harley Davidson fever dream drenched in neon.\u00a0 Just along Route 66 in the Mojave Desert, it appears like a mirage, or a gritty 1950s Western on acid. But amid the barren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}