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  2. Roy's Motel and Café - Wikipedia

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    The town was sold to Southern California preservation patron Albert Okura, [5] after he made a pledge to Bessie Burris to restore Roy's, keep its original Route 66 aesthetic, reopen it, and to open a new museum showcasing Amboy's history. Okura acquired approximately 950 acres, which contained the town and Roy's Motel and Café, for $425,000 on ...

  3. U.S. Route 66 in California - Wikipedia

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    Roy's in the Mojave Desert at Amboy. Roy's Motel and Café was once the largest roadside business in what is now the desert ghost town of Amboy, California. The motel has been closed for years as the town died when Interstate 40 in California diverted traffic ten miles further north. Amboy, as a ghost town, had been used as a filming location ...

  4. Amboy, population 0 — a Mojave Desert ghost town and ... - AOL

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    Amboy has been beset by a series of crises that stretch back more than half a century. But owner Kyle Okura hopes to turn it around. No less than his father's legacy is at stake.

  5. Amboy, California - Wikipedia

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    Unlike Tim White and Walt Wilson, who had marketed the town as a ghost-town location for film and television productions, Okura planned on restoring the town for Route 66 tourists and sees the purchase of the town as part of his "destiny". [5] [9] On April 28, 2008, Roy's reopened. The renovations and repairs cost $100,000.

  6. Season in review: Two high-profile restaurants on the way and ...

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    Plans for Keller’s 6,253-square-foot Worth Avenue restaurant, a revival of the now-shuttered and famous-for-decades Ta-boo, were approved in March by the Town Council, including expanded space ...

  7. List of ghost towns in Illinois - Wikipedia

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  8. Chambless, California - Wikipedia

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    Chambless is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, United States, south of Interstate 40 on the historic Route 66. Chambless is east of the Bullion Mountains and Ludlow and ten miles east of Amboy Crater and Amboy, California. The ZIP Code is 92319, and the community is inside area code 760.

  9. Lists of ghost towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghost towns in Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West Ghost town Gallery