I was born and raised there I was born in Ridgecrest in 1966 we lived in Trona in the Argus area. The town was really prosperous at one time it was a great place to grow up.

Don't care, not interested, not your land.

Excellent video with history- have explored all through the area--thank you...

I love how you give all the history of the p Aces you visit.

Thank you! I appreciate that someone helps us to remember. Blessings.

Nice video! Thanks for sharing.

Nice to see a video of mainly photos and organization that makes it interesting..

Wow! I've been through that area a few times and was always curious of the history. Many thanks for sharing! I'm in Sunrise Manor. If you ever go up that way again and would like some company, let me know. Would be fantastic to have a guide who knows the area.

Thank you for your hard work. A great job on the history of Pioche . Keep them coming !

Love to stop and visit there. Spent 10 days there in Fire Command post in 2007.

Interesting history of an old town.

Reat video, Thanks for sharing,

Nice video. Thank you. I really enjoyed it

Tonopha??

Excellent video. I've been through many times and have stopped to eat and do a little walking around. This really puts the place into perspective. Are any of the old mine sites accessible that are west of town?

Outstanding video presentation thank you for huge effort to get the history lesson in.

I live in Pioche and think your video was really good. Thanks for visiting and sharing

Thanks...been there a lot as a kid going deer hunting with dad.

Wonderful presentation. Thanks for taking us along!

Greetings from Norway! I really appreciate your videos. Been visiting around Las Vegas a couple of times, and always want to go back. I "travel" through KZfaq, and your videos are some of my favorites!

Really a wonderful video. I almost bought a club up there years ago. Always love history. Enjoy 😊.

Well researched and presented. Best I’ve seen for this area. Thank you

Thanks!

I always enjoy ur videos. You put a lot of work into researching the history of the sites you visit. Much appreciated.

I lived in Randsburg for a short time in the late eighties, I moved back to Kansas where at an antique mall, found 2 1950s Red Mountain calendars that were a Cadillac dealer in Red Mountain. Never knew it was that big at that time to have a dealer. It must have not been there for long. Great video, thanks!

I want to give you thanks for making that video it was very interesting to see some of the history you gave out about trona having my family of sixth generations live in there and working at the plant and majority of them still live there and work there although some have moved to Ridgecrest and because of the earthquake some have moved out of there but majority of my family members still work and live there in trona and the swimming pool that they're talking about that was an awesome place to go but what a lot of people don't know is across the street in the desert from the pool there's an oasis where there's a really nice waterfall and natural spring that the locals know about and go and hang out but have bonfires barbecue and swim in the waterfall okay maybe not swim but get wet in the waterfall which was awesome to do during the summer till this day most of my family members still live there and some of them are actually in management and working there at the plant so it was awesome to see someone do a little documentary video about trona once again you did a great job

My Grandmother lived in Goldfield with her father, a doctor, after the SF earthquake. She recalled seeing Diamond Lil at a bar as she peeked in and all the prostitutes waiting for custmers in front of their cribs. She said to get to Goldfield one had to take the stage coach - from Reno? She was 10 years old when she arrived and stayed until 14. Your presentation is much appreciated and i could see her at the places you mention.

I hve actually stopped at the Silver Dollar bar when it was still open and had a drink or two to break up the drive to the Owens Valley.

My brother recently told me about this video and I was really excited to see it. Our grandparents lived, and passed, in Red Mountain, and are buried in Randsburg. My grandfather was a miner and my grandmother cooked for the miners. My brother lived with our grandparents for some time and I spent many summers as a kid in Red Mountain. It's been a long time since I have visited the area. I'm going to make an effort to do so in the future.

Very interesting journey back in time. Much clearer pictures. Enjoyed this. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

Great video and commentary about this amazing stop on the 395. I explored the site last year and can say it is an intense experience. Thank you for creating this video series on the 395.

great video! Interesting history, wondered why that site until you explained the previous town there, makes sense. Glad you were able to fix the video, you included so many really well done black and white images of Manzanar. Hopefully our country never makes the mistake again of locking up our own citizens based on their heritage.

We were there in September

Enjoy all your KZfaq presentations. Are you aware that most of the photos here are out of focus? It’s either your eyes or my eyes lol.

It's unfortunate that public school history classes in California completely ignore this travesty. My good friend's father was put here and also in Tule Lake. He and his wife were two very patriotic U.S. citizens. That didn't matter. Thank you for making this video.

Well done GTW. We can’t accuse the U.S. Government of inaction during WW2. I had better stop there.

Great video! includes a lot of information I'd never heard before like the Manzanar Riot. Back in the late 1970's I worked for a Southern California tour bus company. One time I picked up a very solemn group in Los Angeles and drove them to Manzanar. They were mostly ex-internees and some where the children and grand children of the people inturned. Back then there wasn't much except for the white monument to the people who had died there. Others came from the Bay Area and Central California, apparently this was a annual event. The people got off the bus and spent a couple hours going around the site.

Yes I'll agree I worked there in late 70s unloading coke trains hell of a job you missed the swimming pool and the bar 😂❤

Very well done documentary.

A very dark time in American history. Thanks for sharing your time and research.

Great vid. My high school teach was intern there with her parents. She didn’t talk about it much.

History most like to forget. Thanks 😊 We have at least one of these camps here in AZ. Ain't nearly that pretty tho.

Thanks so muck for all your work putting this historical background out to the general public. Sad how the average person of ALL types and backgrounds ALL want the same thing, HARMONY; but a small group form a RACKET known as WAR using the average person as their sacrificial tool. In my younger active days I passed by this ghost town on my way to Mammoth Lakes many times.

If you went up Whitney Portal Road from 395 you would have come across a "priority" continuation of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over the town. The last two winter's experienced a large snow pack in the Eastern Sierra's; and the successive spring thaws, particularly the thaw of 2023, realized devastating flash flooding that took out a major portion of Whitney Portal Road, the ventures of Lone Pine Creek at the aqueduct, and the road over the LA aqueduct. Only about 200' of the road has been repaired, and thats the portion that runs over the aqueduct, and of course the spillway of the creek to the aqueduct. But from Tuttle Creek Road to Movie Flat Road remains closed to automobile traffic. The devastation is far beyond the Towns financial ability to repair; it's a major reconstruction and re-engineering project that's in the hands of the State. Good luck Lone Pine - the detours may wind up being permanent work around.

No one there has green yard's because of the soil and the drinking water is piped over from Ridgecrest

Nothing but meth heads out there boy. 😂

Wow no McDonald's in Tonopah! The evil clowns down at the motel ran Ronald off.

Thanks for creating this in depth documentary of Lone Pine CA and the valley. I never heard about the water right battle before.

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Was there in 98 or 99’ some old fella Barely dressed, tried to con me into paying for a history lesson of the place😅