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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
This list of museums in California is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The name Hobo was based on the rancher's name for the workmen who lived there, who were accused of stealing sheep and cattle. [3] Another account of the name Hobo Hot Springs claims that a hobo camp that included several bathhouses was built in 1901 when the Borel power plant was under construction.
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]
The National Hobo Association was founded in 1977 by actor Bobb Hopkins and others in Los Angeles who were interested in the hobo lifestyle as a hobby, [1] [2] [3] [4
The collection was first exhibited in downtown Los Angeles' Pacific Electric building, then moved to the May Company building in 1908, and finally to the Mt. Washington site in 1914. [3] The 1914 building was designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas Reese Burns. [4]
The center is focused on the exhibition and study of Chicano art from across the United States. This is a collaborative effort between Cheech Marin, the City of Riverside and Riverside Art Museum. Cheech Marin is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and collector. He has donated or promised his collection of more than 700 pieces of Chicano art.
During World War II, the town was the site of Camp Pilot Knob, the US Army's training center. [5] The town's key features are a 21-foot-tall stone-and-glass pyramid (6.4 m), a church on a man-made hill, and the Museum of History in Granite, which Istel has been developing since the town's founding. The museum consists of dozens of granite ...