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  California @ WestCoastRoads - Interstate 15 - Southbound San Bernardino County (Nevada to Barstow)
California 127 travels 84 miles north from Interstate 15 to Death Valley Junction to the east Death Valley National Park.
California 127 meets California 178 in 57 miles at Shoshone and crosses the state line and transitions to Nevada 373 in 91 miles.
California 58 bypasses Barstow to the west along a short freeway between the original California 58 (Barstow Bakersfield Highway) and Interstate 15.
www.westcoastroads.com /california/i-015h_ca.html   (2856 words)

  
 W E I R D U S D O T C O M
The enduring legacy of Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Resort is a testimony to the extraordinary vision of a self-proclaimed evangelist and health guru who moved out to the ass-end of nowhere on the shore of a dry salt flat, and proceeded to make a Utopia in his image—part religion and part hucksterism.
Well after Zzyzx was established, Springer began to offer lots for sale on the adjacent property, so that the well-to-do faithful might take 24-hour advantage of the healing waters and lifestyle he had so generously made available to the world.
Zzyzx was finally entered as an official geographic name in 1984, proving that Curtis Springer did indeed have the last word.
www.weirdus.com /stories/CA12.asp   (1172 words)

  
 Zzyzx, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zzyzx, California is a settlement in San Bernardino County, California, formerly the site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center.
The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ˈzaɪˌzɪks/ (pronounced as "Zei-zix" with the accent on the first syllable, rhyming with "Isaac's", not "physics"), was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.
He used Zzyzx until 1974, when he was arrested by the United States Marshals for misuse of the land as well as alleged violations of food and drug laws, and the land was confiscated by the government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zzyzx,_California   (799 words)

  
 GDL Alliance - GDL Rocks - Zzyzx
Zzyzx (pronounced 'zy-zx') was approved as a place name on June 14, 1984.
Objects with zzyzx can be stretchy in the 3D view - a 3D hotspot set will appear at the height specified by zzyzx and if you grab the spots, the 'pet palette' displays a 'stretch vertically' option.
Zzyzx is on the western edge of the Mojave National Preserve.
www.gdlalliance.com /GDL_Rocks/blvd_of_dreams.html   (424 words)

  
 Zzyzx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The story of Zzyzx Springs is the story of Curtis Howe Springer who, in 1944, settled without a by-your-leave on 12,800 acres of Mohave desert land, on a tract about eight miles long and three wide.
For thirty years he broadcast a daily religious and health program from a radio studio at Zzyzx Springs which was carried, at its peak, by 221 stations in the United States and 102 more in other countries.
Zzyzx Springs and all the improvements were confiscated by the Bureau of Land Management, and Springer was found guilty and spent a few months in jail.
www.wordways.com /zzyzx.htm   (873 words)

  
 Curbside Auto Column and Web Site - Zzyzx Road - California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For anyone who has traveled from Southern California to Las Vegas or beyond, there is a road sign just before Baker, California that reads "Zzyzx Road." Almost everyone I've talked to has wondered just what was on the road with the strange name.
Zzyzx is called Zzyzx because of a radio evangelist named Dr.
In 1776 California was still a province of Spain and the Spanish government decided to help feed a hungry Mexico by farming the valleys around Monterey and San Francisco Bay.
www.curbsite.com /forum/printthread.php?t=142   (1587 words)

  
 Google Earth Hacks - File Downloads - Strange Map Quirks - Zzyzx, CA
Zzyzx Road is the road leading to it.
The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ˈzaɪˌzɪks/ was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.
Zzyzx Road is a 4.5 mile/7.2 km long - part paved, part dirt — rural collector road in the Mojave Desert.
www.googleearthhacks.com /dlfile11093/Zzyzx,-CA.htm   (395 words)

  
 GDL Alliance - GDL Rocks - Zzyzx
Zzyzx (pronounced 'zy-zx') was approved as a place name on June 14, 1984.
Objects with zzyzx can be stretchy in the 3D view - a 3D hotspot set will appear at the height specified by zzyzx and if you grab the spots, the 'pet palette' displays a 'stretch vertically' option.
Zzyzx is on the western edge of the Mojave National Preserve.
gdlalliance.com /GDL_Rocks/blvd_of_dreams.html   (424 words)

  
 San Bernardino County Sun - Renovation begins at former health spa
Its cluster of buildings, which Springer opened as a resort with indoor mineral springs and a cross-shaped pool, have weathered the desert wind and heat since the Bureau of Land Management evicted him in 1974, saying he didn't have a valid claim for the property.
The site, known as Soda Springs before Springer opened his 12,000-acre Zzyzx mineral-springs resort, was used for hundreds of years by Indian tribes and as a stagecoach and then rail stop on the old Tonapah and Tidewater Railroad, according to the Park Service.
The consortium of California State University campuses running the center are in San Bernardino, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge and Pomona.
www.sbsun.com /ci_4905452   (449 words)

  
 Borax Smith and the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad - Page 2
California State Highway 127 parallels and crosses the original route of the T & T as it heads north from Baker, through Tecopa, Shoshone and beyond Death Valley Junction.
The discovery of the Kramer borate deposit was an important geologic factor that influenced the course of mining at Ryan and resulted in the demise of the T & T. During its active years, the T & T became the lifeline for the remote mining camps and settlements along its route.
In this area of California, southeast of Death Valley, the Garlock Fault and the mountains along this structural trend form a dividing line between the Mojave Desert to the south and the Amargosa Desert to the north.
www.ttrr.org /tt_text/ttpb_003.html   (2615 words)

  
 Zzyzx Road
The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ˈzaɪˌzɪks/ (pronounced as "Zeye-zix" with the accent on the first syllable, rhyming with "Isaac's", not "physics"), was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.
He established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa at the spot, which was federal land that he had no permission to use.
He used Zzyzx until 1974, when he was arrested by the United States Marshals for misuse of the land as well as alleged violations of food and drug laws, and the land was confiscated by the government.
www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com /zzyzx_road.htm   (680 words)

  
 Zzyzx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The story of Zzyzx Springs is the story of Curtis Howe Springer who, in 1944, settled without a by-your-leave on 12,800 acres of Mohave desert land, on a tract about eight miles long and three wide.
For thirty years he broadcast a daily religious and health program from a radio studio at Zzyzx Springs which was carried, at its peak, by 221 stations in the United States and 102 more in other countries.
Zzyzx Springs and all the improvements were confiscated by the Bureau of Land Management, and Springer was found guilty and spent a few months in jail.
wordways.com /zzyzx.htm   (873 words)

  
 Google Earth Hacks - File Downloads - Strange Map Quirks - Zzyzx, CA
The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ˈzaɪˌzɪks/ was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.
Zzyzx Road is a 4.5 mile/7.2 km long - part paved, part dirt — rural collector road in the Mojave Desert.
Zzyzx was approved as a place name by the United States Board on Geographic Names on June 14, 1984.
www.gearthhacks.com /dlfile11093/Zzyzx,-CA.htm   (385 words)

  
 Mojave National Preserve: Administrative History (Chapter 2)
As Mitchell grew closer to retirement age in the early 1950s, he began deliberations with California's state park system to take over operation of the caves as a state park.
Two years later, after some BLM consternation about what to do with Zzyzx, the California State University Desert Studies Consortium was granted a renewable lease to run the property as a research and education facility.
The State of California also sought to increase recreational opportunities by introducing non-native animals to the area as a means of increasing hunting.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/moja/adhi2b.htm   (1749 words)

  
 growabrain: California Archives
While the force of gravity easily explains how dozens of rocks - weighing up to 700 pounds - could have fallen from the adjacent hillsides onto the margins of this long-vanished ancient lake, it cannot explain how the rocks have moved far out onto the perfectly flat surface.
A colorful mosaic gracing the entrance of Livermore's new library is of a genre known as naןve art because of its whimsical design and childlike nature.
A San Francisco Assemblyman is pushing a legislative resolution that urges the state and municipalities to consider adopting design standards that incorporate the ancient Chinese art of geomancy.
growabrain.typepad.com /growabrain/california/index.html   (1461 words)

  
 GANNS.com - Zzyzx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The government land is now borrowed and maintained by the California State University Desert Studies Center.
More about Zzyzx, CA, Zzyzx Road, and more crazy history.
First view of the Zzyzx Road exit sign on I-15, west of Baker, CA Here we go...
ganns.com /Zzyzx   (237 words)

  
 Death Valley and the Mojave
Mountain in distance is Manly Peak, an eminently climbable peak which I am yet to have the honor of ascending.
Desert Research Station at Zzyzx, California - Man-made desert scenery of the highest order can be found at Zzyzx Desert Research Station south of Baker, California.
Zzyzx has an eerie (yet cozy) wierdness typical of the Southern California Desert; as a visitor to the dorms there I was once confronted (but not comforted) by a sign on one of the bunks in my room: "CAUTION: BED FULL OF BABY SCORPIONS."
www.depauw.edu /acad/geosciences/tcope/deathvalley.htm   (849 words)

  
 Zzyzx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zzyzx, California, a research settlement and former spa in the Mojave Desert south of Baker, California, and Zzyzx Road, the road leading from Interstate 15 to that settlement
Zzyzx (film), a feature film by Yarble Film.
Zzyzx Spring, a water spring along Zzyzx Road
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zzyzx   (158 words)

  
 About the Desert Studies Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Established in 1976 under a cooperative management agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, the Center is operated for the CSU by the California Desert Studies Consortium, an organization of seven southern California CSU campuses: Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona and San Bernardino.
Through the efforts of Dr. Harrington and Dr. James Crum, Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at California Sate University, San Bernardino, negotiations were begun with BLM concerning the vacated buildings and surrounding land located at Zzyzx, California, in the east Mojave.
The Consortium established the operating structure for the education and research facility at Soda Springs and renamed the structures the Desert Studies Center.
biology.fullerton.edu /facilities/dsc/zz_about.html   (607 words)

  
 Collector List, Tom Schweich
At the water tank, in the wash on the north slope of mesa, 3½ km west northwest of Hole-in-the-Wall, 278 km northwest of Los Angeles, California.
On the road to north Wild Horse Mesa, sandy wash. 278 km northeast of Los Angeles, California.
On the road to north Wild Horse Mesa, sandy wash. 279 km northeast of Los Angeles, California.
www.schweich.com /colllistTAS.html   (2867 words)

  
 cdd_minutes_92499
The Council and members of the public departed from Zzyzx at 7:30 a.m.
Ilene Anderson reported that the California Native Plant Society is updating its manual for native plants in the California Desert.
The data will help determine the importance of the Fort Irwin tortoise population to the overall survival of the species within the planning area, and if impacts on the desert tortoise within the proposed expansion area can be mitigated.
www.blm.gov /ca/news/rac/dac/minutes/cdd_minutes_92499.html   (2030 words)

  
 CLUI #CA4922 - Zzyzx
Located on the edge of a large dry lake, Zzyzx is the site of a former health resort established in 1944 by an evangelist named Curtis Springer, who advocated physical as well as spiritual fitness, and sold health products using the soda from the lake.
The resort was popular until the early 1970's, when Springer was removed bodily from the site by the Bureau of Land Management, which claimed that he had never received official title to the land.
The California State University system has taken over the resort as a desert ecology study center.
www.clui.org /clui_4_1/ludb/sites/CA4922_1.html   (152 words)

  
 Hot Job: Rob Fulton
It was an inauspicious beginning in 1979 when Rob Fulton, a Fullerton graduate student in biology, signed up to do weekend construction work at the newly acquired Zzyzx facility that was to become the Desert Studies Center.
A inveterate desertphile, Fulton came back to Zzyzx during his graduate years to help construct some of the center’s buildings.
But Fulton’s always glad to come back to Zzyzx, strange as it may seem.
campusapps.fullerton.edu /news/people/2003/fulton.html   (378 words)

  
 Zzyzx, California
He sent the photograph via e-mail from Finland, and we received it in Nevada, not far from where it stands on the edge of Interstate 15, near Baker, California.
The arrow points south down a road that soon turns to sand and bends around a basalt outcropping to Zzyzx Springs, an old health resort started by a charismatic quack named Doc Springer in the early decades of the 1900s.
I, too, have fallen under its spell, and have used Zzyzx Road as a location in a novel.
www.roadtripamerica.com /signs/zzyzx.htm   (291 words)

  
 OEDILF
—Zzyzx (ZIZZ-icks): an actual town in California five miles SW of Baker, presently part ghost town and part research facility.
In the 1940s, a flamboyant preacher opened the place up as a mineral spa only to have the government seize it because he was only licensed to operate the place as a mine and not as a health resort.
Visiting Zzyzx is now on my list of Things I Must Do Before I Die.
www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?VerseId=A21431   (375 words)

  
 January 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The 814th meeting of the Mineralogical Society of Southern California was held on Friday, December 9, 2005, in the Geology Department at Pasadena City College.
The study tour is scheduled to begin with the Tucson mineral expositions in early February 2006 and end with the mineral museums of New York City in late February.
The basic building block of the quartz structure is the silica textrhedron which consists of 4 oxygen ions surrounding one silicon ion.
www.mineralsocal.org /bulletin/2006_jan.htm   (2918 words)

  
 The RPG Consortium - Role Playing Community: Community Forums: Discussions
The Welsh argue that the longer name has been contrived to be longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which some others argue was contrived to be the longest British place name in the first place.
Zzyzx is a location in San Bernardino County, California.
The name Zzyzx, pronounced /ÈzajÌzjks/ was given to the area in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.
www.rpgconsortium.com /forums/discussions.cfm?forumid=84&topicid=284186   (882 words)

  
 Zzyzx
He claimed the spring under a mining claim from the Bureau of Land Management and renamed it "Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Resort." (By the way, Zzyzx is pronounced "zye-zix.") I have no idea how Springer came up with this strange name.
In addition many truly sick folks arrived at Zzyzx only to discover that they were miles from licensed medical care and ambulance service.
Although the name of the spring reverted to its original name, Soda Spring, the road to the spring is still known as Zzyzx Road.
catlin.casinocitytimes.com /articles/14271.html   (1158 words)

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