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News Nob

USA / Nevada / Indian Springs /
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Hill from which press was allowed to file atmospheric tests in the 50's. It received its name when a former Nevada Test Site construction worker who took a weather beaten board with a yellow door knob attached to it from an old outdoor lavatory and painted "This is News Nob” across the door in yellow. The original board is gone, but a replacement board still manages to hang onto to the side of the rock pile, despite years of wind and rain that tried to pry it loose from its precarious perch.

www.nv.energy.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_774.pdf
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Coordinates:   36°56'42"N   116°2'58"W

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  • Bongo55 (guest)
    At the northeast corner of the indicated block are a series of parallel lines, was this where the bleachers were?
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