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Going to this spot next week
The petroglyphs are depictions of what they saw in the sky. Electric discharge and plasma formations. Please refer to the Thunderbolts Project, for enlightenment. I promise you wont regret it.
1:35 "I bet the inside of this looks...insane." Well, of course. I mean, it's not a sane asylum!
As a child it was always threatened that if we didn't behave we would be sent to the Norman looney bin AKA Griffin memorial
Hey, you might need to bring this back! I'd love to own that beauty 😮
My dad took my mom there at the mental hospital twice when was growing up,she lived out a long healthy normal life passing in 2008.I made delivery out there to the main complex recently.. They should open it back up and put the homeless in there that lives under the bridges around south okc 🫢..They keep the grass nice and trimmed..thanks for your videos
Tennessee's license plate hearkens back to those used in the State in the 1950s. Back then, the plate was not rectangular. It was in the nature of a trapezoid, similar to the geographical shape of Tennessee
with luck this winter 2024 into 2025 will be just as wet if not more.. just so this great lake can return to something of it’s glory days.
I remember when I went to OU in 1978-82 and part of this was still being used for patients I believe, as would see people on Main Street who definitely were non violent and would return to the facility in time for supper. It was bizarre having that in college town Norman. Interesting buildings and I remember hearing they moved the function of the facility to Vinita.
This is interesting take on the water levels in the San Gabriels, having water definitely has a profound impact on the life of these mountains
The piers you see are from the original bridge built in 1881 by my great uncle Henry Randolph Holbrook. He was born November 22, 1838 in Columbia, Conn. He was the chief engineer for the Atlantic Pacific Railroad. The town of Holbrook, AZ was named after Mr. Holbrook on September 24, 1881. That was the day the last spike was driven completing the railroad through town. Henry Randolph Holbrook retired from the railroad and moved to Pueblo, Colorado where he made his home until he died in 1907 at the age of 69. A simple Google search " Diablo canyon railroad bridge" will show early photos of the bridge I have correspondence from The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, dated 06-09-1983. On receipt your letter of May 28 1983, We checked our historical records pertaining to Henry Randolph Holbrook and the Canyon Diablo bridge, and have determined that the bridge took 15 months to build and was completed in June of 1882. Inasmuch as Mr Holbrook was the chief engineer during the period July 6 1880 to December 31 1881, he was responsible for it's construction. That was sent to us by Bill Burk, Vice President Public Relations.
I was expecting a comment on how cold the water was next to the dam.
Aspen is birch mimicking poplar
I’m going there
I lived here most my life never heard this story but there is some places you should go see like walkers cabin in keysville ask any local and they will tell you exactly how to get there the walkers it's cool bcuz it's an old minors cabin with some real cowboy history a shootout happened on the property where one of the Walker brothers killed multiple guys and made it out alive and it's the most haunted spot I have been to if super active me and all my friends have personal experiences there
Went here once and got lost inside and had to break a different window to get out
Where'd u park (to not get caught)
The great news is Tulare Lake will recharge the aquafers that the farmers have been draining for decades. Maybe even see water levels in their wells rising instead of sinking!
I'm having trouble following this. I always thought the first building was an abandoned church because of the stained glass windows. Then you show the cornerstone and the thing over the door that designates it as an American Legion building. Then you ignore all of that and declare it a mental asylum. I can't see how it could be used for that. Your narrative doesn't make much sense. BTW, I think the cages above the entry on the second building were for inmates to be able to enjoy fresh air without hurting themselves.
Cool video. Thanks! That deadly plant is called oleander. And it is very deadly. Honey made from its flowers is not suitable for human consumption.
Lovely blue color
Wait... You get snow squalls in the desert?
Really glad to see someone talking about the remaining effects of a hurricane, my first real experience of a thunderstorm was back in the summer of '05, my first job at the North Rim after Hurricane Emily which proved to be a gracious storm over the Grand Canyon North Rim. I had the day off and was in the employee dinning pub when the first bolt of lightning alerted me to the *oncoming six hour beauty* I was about to witness!
So much assuming.....then you make the mistake all petroglyph viewers do is bring up big foot and aliens....that does more harm than good to bring understanding along.
Hey Benji! At 5;20 you officially walked onto Hell Street in downtown Canyon Diablo.! I'm a local been there 10 times easy, all the ruins in this second video are canyon Diablo, you came in from a different direction? from the north? Any way Fantastik Video great job with the camera!
I grew up here and it’s probably central state mental asylum.
Dr Delbert G Willard was a great figure at this hospital.
Wow that’s gorgeous
An interesting history of the transformation of the region is The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman.
Nice video. You should get a mini drone to capture some of these sites
Hi Benji, thanks for posting this video. I like your written introduction, the views you recorded. The color and clarity of the video is great as well as your comments of the topography throughout the video. Hope you had a good return trip to Southern California. Cheers,
I drove that road back around 1996 when I was working in LA. Beautiful views. I’ve also seen the broken end from Islip on many hikes I took up Mt. Williamson. Love that area!
At 3:53 the two turtles represent me and my little brother... the Shark fin represent the Australian PM Holt who went missing whilst swimming... he was sacrificed the same night as me and Roger... there are 7 children to be slain.. the year is 1963 and again in 1965.. The reason the turtles are the biggest is that both my brother and I were brought back into existence.. I guess theywere letting the Leaders know those from others stars would return in our lifetimes.. So Trump, Biden, King, Prince and most world leaders involved in child rape and sacrifice and genocide are about to be removed..
You lads in the USA don't see very well.. At 3:31 exactly you are seeing the petroglyphs used to form face profiles and eyes and the many faces, at least 8 in this location.. are also formed with the rock face itself... the people who left the glyphs are the same people who left the pyramids in every country.. Most the petroglyphs record the crimes of our Leaders the Pyramids and megalithic sites are used to explain many things. and warn our Leaders.
I live in Baldwin Park and go on vacation at the end of next week and during my week off will spend a few days riding my touring bicycle up to the CA-39 closure to the 2, and maybe down to Wrightwood for resupply, overnight camping here and there before heading back down. I'm glad that water will not an issue for me (I'll filter it of course). Crystal Lake looks good, so I might give it a visit. Thanks for making this video. Perfect timing!! It's really got me jazzed for my vacation!!
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Crystal lake has a nice color👍👍
Thanks for the video. 39 is a very unique highway. It sure could be opened, stop the spending on newsoms choo choo train no one will ride.
The area under discussion was first named Blythe Junction, and later changed to Rice in the 1930s when a US Post office was placed there. The LA Times called the area No Mans Land California in 1914, which i called my book. In the late 1800s it was a trading post for minors, and was well used into the 1970s with a Gas Station and Post Office, but with the closing of mining activity during the time period, the small town eventually died to neglect and destroyed by vandalism. The town once housed a school house, a movie theater, a large store, a brothel and even a gambling establishment under the Post Office. In fact, the entire town of Blythe Junction was arrested in 1914 by both Riverside and San Bernardino County Sheriff Departments for running an illegal town of ill-repute. The site was used for various activities, including the World's Largest Bar during WWII for training camps in the area, a train station for connecting rail lines, and a camp for the development of the water canals during the 1930s, etc.
My great great great uncle, half brother to my great great grandpa, was an 'inmate' at this hospital from 1916, thru the 1920 census (there were 1,100 inmates), and possibly until his death. I have a news article from when he was taken there that says he battled depression. He was marked as insane on his WWI Draft Card. There's a grave in a cemetery 2 miles away that I believe is his, but there's a possible transcription error and I haven't been able to find records to confirm if he died in 1929. Makes me sad to think of him living there for 13 years and dying there. Sorry Uncle George. 😞
I mean I guess the fact they are old is cool but in 600-1400AD white people in Europe weRE building cathedrals and creating works of art that now sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. The natives of North America were scratching rocks with other rocks to create stick figures a 3 year old could make. If there is a more stark contrast between civilizations I don’t know where it exists.
Nice to see things haven't changed much in bakersfield
I went there when I was younger it’s a mental hospital the people that worked there did not take care of the patients like they were supposed to. I got overdosed at this hospital and damn near died.
I think they are beautiful.
It looks like bee hives the last one
They're from the western diamond Billed rock pecker...
It grosses me out
Prehistoric bee hive lol
Gas pockets
Most likely igneous rock which was solidified as it bubbled.
Too many canadian provinces use excessive blue
It is hard yto tell, but those probably are not ears. Native First Nations females had some lovely long hair, which they put up in sort of figure 8 hairstyles on either side of their heads, which stuck out. So we might be looking at a hairdo. Those hairstyles were prevalent in the Utah Arizona area.
Earlier tonight at Azusa City Hall Auditorium was a public hearing and comment hosted by CalTrans District 7 on plans to reopen the long closed segment (Crystal Lake to State Route 2)
I love the opener with the graffiti! It's, unfortunately become a scum haven along with the rest of SoCal. I backpacked the WF as a kid when much of the trail was underwater back in the mid-late 1970s. No graffiti. We came in contact with over 20 rattlers, a herd of desert sheep, a black bear, and some amazing rainbows, trout that is! Thinking of cycling through one of these days...