Siberia, California

USA / California / Twentynine Palms Base /
 railroad yard, ghost town
Siberia was a water stop and siding for the Santa Fe Railroad. When Route 66 came through many Mom and Pop cafes and tourist camps operated out of here in the 1930s and 1940s, providing the weary desert traveler some comfort. Siberia never amounted to very much apparently. Jack Rittenhouse in his famous 1946 A Guide Book to Highway 66 doesn't even mention it.

The site was, however, the setting for a 1992 comedy-drama movie Siberia about low-income residents struggle to live simple in a trailer park in the middle of the Mojave desert. Since 2001, all traces of the town have been removed.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia,_California
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Coordinates:   34°37'33"N   115°59'11"W
This article was last modified 11 months ago