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Amboy is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, in California's Mojave Desert, west of Needles and east of Ludlow on historic Route 66. It is roughly 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Twentynine Palms. As of 2020, the town's business district still contained a post office, a historic restaurant-motel, and a Route 66 tourist shop, all ...
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 ...
Interior of Amboy Crater showing a lava lake and the distant breach in the cinder cone rim. Interior of Amboy Crater from near breach showing lava lakes. Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.
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.
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 ...
Amboy Airfield is an abandoned airport in the area of Amboy, California, which was used primarily during World War II. The exact date of the airport's opening is undetermined even though the earliest reference to the airfield was published on June 5, 1925, in the Oxnard Daily Courier. [1] Airplanes occasionally fly in. [2]
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Albert Okura (December 3, 1951 – January 27, 2023) was an American businessman who was the founder and CEO of the Juan Pollo restaurant chain in Southern California. He was also a philanthropist and was active in the revitalization of Historic Route 66. [1] In 2005, Okura purchased the town of Amboy, California, which is located along Route 66.