Apr
Bat Country
The Mojave Desert region around Las Vegas is a renowned locus of anomie and abjection.
Apr
Jul
New Mexico
Land of Enchantment
Jul
Pasadena
aka: The Crown City Mausoleum of Capitalist Aristocracy In March 1886, Pasadena became the second incorporated municipality, after the city of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County. In Ojibwe, “pa-sa-de-na,” means “of the valley” The first Busch Gardens opened in Pasadena in 1905 and closed to the public in 1937. When Busch died at his […]
May
Norton Air Force Base
A decommissioned base located in San Bernardino. Now the San Bernardino International Airport. Former site of the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA) established in June 1979 to provide centrally managed audiovisual support to the entire Department of Defense components. Disestablished on September 30, 1985. References wikipedia: Norton Air Force Base AF Installations, Environment & Logistics, Legacy […]
May
Nellis Air Force Base
Located in Groom Dry Lake, Nevada aka: Area 51, Dreamland The base, part of the United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command, is located approximately eight miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The total land area occupied by Nellis and its restricted ranges is about 5,000 square miles. Satellite image of the runways: Map of […]
May
Mount Palomar
Mountain north of San Diego. Location of the Palomar Observatory. George Adamski claimed his first alien contact was here. In Alchemical Conspiracy and the Death of the West”Michael Hoffman writes of Parsons. Hoffman tells us that the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) had a temple on nearby Mount Palomar. The local Indians regarded the mountain as […]
Apr
Giant Rock
A place near Joshua Tree in the California desert where a sixty foot high boulder rises from a dry lake bed. The rock was known by local Indian tribes as the Great Stone. A airstrip runs next to the rock, and rock and airstrip became the location of Saucerian Convention for several decades, many of […]
Apr
Valencia
The brand name of a master-planned suburb in Southern California just north of the San Fernando Valley in the municipality of Santa Clarita. Built by Newhall Land and Farming (now just Newhall Land). The route of the flood from the St. Francis dam passed though what would eventually become Valencia. Location of: US Borax California […]
Mar
Vandenburg Air Force Base
Located on the central coast of California, Vandenburg occupies a large area around Point Conception — the point where the California coast turns North which is roughly considered the geographic and climatological division between Northern and Southern California. Location of many missile tests, commercial rocket launches, and some space shuttle launches. While trying to convince […]