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This is the iconic Dreamland building in Margate. The sign has been changed to 'Empire' as part of the street dressing for the filming of the new Sam Mendes film, Empire of Light.
This Art Deco masterpiece was opened in 1935 - architects Julian Leathart and WF Granger.
I still need to do some work with the Holga. I'm missing something on using the viewfinder. When I took this shot, the sign filled the frame.
Ace Hotel & Swim Club, East Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California
Desert PolaRoadTrip 03/08/18
CAFE & MOTEL - with an arrow pointing north (left) across National Trails Highway. Used to be a little town here outside Newberry Springs called "Poe Town." according to Andree at the bagdad cafe.
Not much left there now.
where the town sites of Poe's/Desert Oasis and Water Camp are located. the sign used to be straight. someone had to go to a great deal of trouble to bend it like that. we had a post going on earlier than discussed this area quite a bit.
>>If you look carefully at the faded metal sign you can see the words "CAFÉ-MOTEL" and then an arrow points north across the highway, which would have pointed to Poe's for westbound travelers.>1 ½ miles west of the Poe's site is another mobile home set up. There seems to be two mobile homes set side-by-side. It is not a "double-wide" since the two mobile homes do not match: they are really two single-wide trailers parked together. The front mobile home is blue and the rear mobile home is white. There is a metal entry way attached to the front of the blue mobile home. This property is not fenced off. It has more robust looking trees than the scrawny ones at the Poe's site.
So here's the story: the Poe's property being fenced off did not seem too welcoming. A dog barked at me as I approached to take a picture. So I drove up to this property with the two dissimilar trailers and these two guys there were talking: the owner I found out (old, tanned, weathered guy, looked like a real "desert rat") and a younger man who had driven there in a late model compact car. When I stopped my car on the shoulder of Route 66 and got out the younger man came out to the highway to meet me and to perhaps head me off as if I was an interloper. I probably surprised him when I asked if this property was Poe's or maybe it was the white double-side mobile home site to the east, and he said immediately that the other site was Poe's. He knew the name. So then I asked if this place, with the blue mobile home and a white mobile home, was once the "Mojave Water Camp."
He did not know but said to me to come on over and talk to his friend who owns the place. So he and I walked onto the property and up to the stoop of the blue mobile home where the old guy was sitting.
The old guy confirmed that the other place was Poe's but he did not know if his place was the Mojave Water Camp. He said that according to the people from whom he bought the property (whom he thinks may have been named Banks) his place once had a house, a café, and a gas station but they were all gone when he came here. (That kind of sounds like the MWC but I don't know. But his place is on the north side of Route 66, not the south side like you see on your 1937 California map.)
I said to the old guy that it must have been nice to just move onto the property with his trailers and have electricity, a working well, and a septic system but he surprised me. He said that he had to drill a well and put in a septic system. I don't know why. Maybe the well ran dry and the septic system of the old property had failed by then.
I showed him a copy of my postcards of the Poe's/Desert Oasis sites and I wondered why his trees looked better than the trees down at the actual Poe's site. (The trees at today's Poe's site look much worse and sparse than in the Frasher real photo postcard.) He told me that he watered his trees but the other guy did not water his anymore.
He told me to look east beyond Poe's along old 66 to where "the sign is." That sign pointed to Poe's. (Yes, there is a very faded metal sign on the south side of old 66 about 500 feet east of Poe's.) If you look carefully at the faded metal sign you can see the words "CAFÉ-MOTEL" and then an arrow points north across the highway, which would have pointed to Poe's for westbound travelers.
The old guy also told me that there was an old abandoned water tank on that property (where the metal sign is) but it was dismantled and set up at the Barstow Station complex as a decoration. This story is probably true: there is an old water tank set up at the Barstow Station property. (Barstow Station is that place on Main Street in Barstow that has a big McDonald's, a gift shop, a Quizno's, and a bunch of railroad passenger cars linked into the permanent structure that you can eat your meals in.)
So I think that Poe's/Desert Oasis has been found.
It is also possible that his property is the Mojave Water Camp but he knew nothing about that name. It has mature trees and he told me that he had been told that at one time there were structures there. If his property was the Mojave Water Camp, it would be essentially 30 miles east of Barstow too. But I would not say with any confidence that it is because you have a map that indicates that it was probably on the south side. But it has to be something or other."The Poe family has had a long association with the Newberry - Silver Valley area. Yes they are related to that Poe family. The senior Poe ran restaurants and dealt in Real Estate, going back to the 50's, maybe even longer.
After that business, pictured above, they moved to Minneloa, and operated a restaurant and gas station. Made a pile of Money, till I-40 bypassed them.
Then they operated the old Kelly's Cafe - Motel in Daggett in the late sixties.
They were very staunch members of the Jehovah Witness Church, one son was even willing to go to Federal Prison, rather than being drafted. (Or so he said as he passed me the Dubbie.
They did enjoy a good reputation in the the town and business community. The father worked long hours, I can still picture him in my mind."<<<<<<<
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Lara Hartley no matter what it is, people will try to destroy it. whether it is a piece of route 66 history or something new.
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Bob Crompton 7 miles East of Newberry Springs...that's not far from the Rest Stop area on the interstate 40, and 3 miles short of Hector Road! I've seen the sign in the picture, but didn't pay much attention to what it said, since I was going 60mph, past it. I don't think you could even read what it said, from all the wear & rust. I know the Whiting Brothers service station there, my parents used to get gas there, back in the 50's, when we went back to Illinois, on vacations in the Summer.
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Lara Hartley you could read it standing at a straight on angle....there's a photo wandering around here somewhere. much clearer than mine which looks like gobbedly gook
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Bob Crompton If anyone is interested....in that area.....the NOTR is about 2.5 miles South of Route 66. At the time, way back when, they engineered the road around all the "dry lakes"....which had water in them, back then, coming into Newberry Springs. FYI....back in the 1800's, Newberry Springs, first original name of the town was: "Water", because they had plenty of it, in the surrounding area, back then.
It is an honor to welcome such a high-ranking member of the Order of the White Lotus. Being a grand master, you must know so many secrets. (Like what happened to Zuko's mother.)
This is for the weekly photo mission, the theme this time was "Signs of Fall".
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