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  2. Salvation Mountain - Wikipedia

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    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. The artwork is made of adobe bricks, discarded tires and ...

  3. Slab City, California - Wikipedia

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    Slab City is located on roughly 640 acres (260 hectares) of public land, [9] near the east shore of the Salton Sea.It is 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, 169 mi (272 km) southeast of Los Angeles and about 50 mi (80 km) from Mexico. [10]

  4. Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura Boulevard ...

  5. Ballarat, California - Wikipedia

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    06-03680. GNIS feature ID. 252847 [1] Ballarat is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. [1] Today, Ballarat is a virtual ghost town. It was founded in 1897 as a supply point for the mines in the canyons of the Panamint Range. A quarter-mile to the south is Post Office Springs, a reliable water source used since the 1850s.

  6. Black Bear Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Black Bear Ranch. / 41.24184; -123.17721. Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California, about 25 miles from Forks of Salmon. It was founded in 1968, [ 1] with the watchword "free land for free people". It has been considered by some participants and commentators to be one of the more radical ...

  7. Rainbow Family Gathering, 'legacy of the original hippies ...

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    Each year, the U.S. Forest Service calls attention to the Rainbow Family Gathering, pointing out that organizers refuse to get a special-use permit, which is mandatory for groups of 75 people or more.

  8. Los Feliz, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Los Feliz (/ loʊs feɪˈliːs /, / lɔːs ˈfiːlɪz /; Spanish for "The Féliz (family)", Spanish pronunciation: [los feˈlis]) [2][3] is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, [4][5] abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains. The neighborhood is named after the Feliz ...

  9. William Pester - Wikipedia

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    William Frederick Pester (born Friedrich Wilhelm Pester, July 18, 1885 – August 12, 1963) [1] was a German-born American pioneer of hippie lifestyles in California in the first half of the twentieth century, known as "the Hermit of Palm Springs ". He was described as epitomizing "the strong link between the 19th century German reformers and ...