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A Fond Farewell to Route 66 Mother Road Museum

Jaylyn and John10 months ago2 months ago115 mins

Update: Brendan O’Brien –not the Pearl Jam producer– bought the Route 66 Mother Road Museum property from the city and will be reopening Barstow’s Route 66 Mother Road Museum on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at the same location. Former museum proprietors, Deb and Ken Hodkin, are enjoying their retirement. Route 66 has lost another gem….

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Big Bear Valley Historical Museum: A Tale of Two Cities

Jaylyn and John2 years ago1 month ago022 mins

Have you ever wondered if the vastly different cities of Big Bear City and La Quinta, California, could possibly have anything in common? One is high in the San Bernardino mountains , a few minutes from Big Bear Lake, and the other is near the Santa Rosa mountains in the low desert, approximately an hour’s…

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Morongo Basin Historical Society Museum: More Fun Than a 7.3 Shaker

Jaylyn and John2 years ago10 months ago020 mins

Where did your intrepid Desert Way wanderers go today? Landers, California, of course. Why? Well, we were 31 years too late for the big earthquake, so we headed on over to the Morongo Basin Historical Society Museum’s Grand Opening instead. The Morongo Basin Historical Society was founded in 1999 but the museum itself did not…

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Goffs Schoolhouse Museum: A Legacy of Learning

Jaylyn and John2 years ago2 years ago025 mins

Consider the town of Goffs for a moment. You really should. You’ll feel much better. With a current population 23, plus or minus a few jackrabbits, and situated eleven miles from Interstate 40, Goffs is today a wealth of history, and ground zero for any serious study of the Mojave Desert. Originally named Blake, Goffs…

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Gilman Ranch: Willie Boy and Wagon Wheels

Jaylyn and John5 years ago2 years ago212 mins

Update 12/08/21: Efforts to build a new community park at Historic Gilman Ranch in Banning will move forward after it received a grant from State Parks for more than $6 million for Stagecoach Stop Park. James Marshall Gilman was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, on June 9, 1842. As a young man, his parents sent…

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Malki Museum: Preserving Cahuilla Culture

Jaylyn and John6 years ago2 years ago114 mins

Malki Museum, housed in a traditional one-room adobe building on the Morongo Reservation in Banning, California, is a walk through time, displaying in all its grandeur the history and culture of the Cahuilla (spoken as: ‘Caw-we-ah’) Native Americans. The pride shows, and the journey is well worth your time. Morongo is a word of Serrano…

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29 Palms Museum: Old Schoolhouse Style

Jaylyn and John6 years ago2 years ago016 mins

Twentynine Palms Museum is housed in the oldest public building still in use in the Morongo Basin and provides visitors a chance to experience a 1920s era schoolroom. Townsfolk moved the city’s unique 1927 one-room school building to National Park Drive and redesigned the building to wind up as the Old Schoolhouse Museum. The Campbell…

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Lake Havasu Museum of History: A Bridge to the Past

Jaylyn and John6 years ago4 months ago09 mins

Take a drive through Lake Havasu City today and it is hard to imagine a time when Jet Skis and speed boats weren’t racing through the wide expanse of blue water, or when Spring breakers and snow birds weren’t making it a prime destination in the desert. The London Bridge was purchased by Robert McCulloch…

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