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El Mirage Lake is a dry lake bed in the northwestern Victor Valley of the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. The lake is located about 9 miles (14 km) west-northwest of the town of Adelanto and 10 mi (16 km) north of Highway 18 in San Bernardino County .
Viskocil, along with effects producer Elaine Edford and cameraman George Dodge, drove out to El Mirage dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert and set up 14 mortars in a 65-foot (20 m) diameter area. Viskocil said Cameron had requested thirty or forty gallons of gasoline, but knowing Cameron, he decided to double it.
An Excelsior Wet Plate Camera in a private collection. The Excelsior Wet Plate Camera is a type of wet plate camera invented by August Semmendinger, one of the first manufacturers of wet plate photography. Excelsior cameras were manufactured in both New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey starting in 1859. [1]
El Mirage is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 35,805, [ 3 ] up from 31,797 in 2010. History
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El Mirage (corruption of El Miraje, Spanish for "The Mirage") is an unincorporated community in the western Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. El Mirage is next to the El Mirage Lake , a dry lake bed, and 12.5 miles (20.1 km) northwest of Adelanto .
El Mirage may refer to: El Mirage, Arizona, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States; El Mirage Dry Lake, a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, California, United States; El Mirage, the fifth solo album by Jimmy Webb; El Mirage, California, an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States
The San Andreas Fault, a major tectonic plate boundary of the Pacific and North American plates a few miles south of Hesperia in the Cajon Pass, has occasional seismic activity. Hesperia is located at 3,186 feet (971 m) above sea level and is a neighbor of Victorville , Oak Hills , and Apple Valley .