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People flooded Bodie during the gold rush of the late 1800s, but when the promise of riches faded, the place found itself spookily abandoned. It now remains in "arrested decay." Google Street View
The Alameda Naval Hospital located in Alameda, California was a 77 acre large complex completed in 1941 to serve U.S. soldiers during the Pacific War and later Vietnam War. The facility was closed in 1975 before becoming the Alameda FISC building until the building was finally closed and abandoned under congressional authorization in 1997.
Speed Slides are high speed body slides called Raging Rocket and Screamer. [10] High Extreme at Raging Waters Los Angeles, with dining area visible in foreground. Splash Island Adventure is an SCS Interactive water playground with 4 water slides, a 1,000-gallon tipping bucket, and more than 75 interactive water features. [11]
The Alpine slide, for which the park is named, has riders go down one of two 0.25 mi (0.40 km) cement slides on wheeled sleds. The Mineshaft Coaster is approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long and lasts 7 to 9 minutes, peaking at 30 mph (48 km/h). [5] [6] The track includes hairpin turns, tunnels, and corkscrew turns that are built into the mountain ...
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
The first reports of damage occurred on January 2, 1929, when a water line broke underneath the Ocean View Inn hotel on Paseo Del Mar. A gas line broke on January 10 under the same building. [1] [7] The crack first became visible in early April after heavy rains. It was reported the crack took a semicircular route, from the east end of Point ...
Home to four major world-class theme or amusement parks, the Los Angeles area offers plenty of inventive ways to get soaked. From Disneyland to Knott's and beyond, we rank SoCal's water rides.
Top Gear America used the water park in September 2014 as an obstacle course in Season 5 Episode 7 "What Can It Take". [19] In November 2014, the water park was used as the site of an Operation Lion Claws airsoft event, 'War of Angels'. [20] The park was a setting for a 2015 Mini Cooper television commercial featuring Tony Hawk. [13]